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• ozymandias 17 Mar 2026 14:33 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: JoanMM🔹’s comment on: The joys of cash benchmarking

  Yes, of course!

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• ozymandias 28 Feb 2026 17:22 UTC

  21 points

  7 ∶ 1

  on: CEA’s re­sponse to sex­ual harassment

  This is horrifying, Fran, and I wish I could say I was surprised. Thank you for coming forward.

• ozymandias 28 Feb 2026 17:19 UTC

  25 points

  17 ∶ 1

  in reply to: Joseph Lemien’s comment on: CEA’s re­sponse to sex­ual harassment

  I think it’s obviously inappropriate to ask someone out at a work retreat (and obviously inappropriate for people to date people in their chain of command, etc.). But I don’t think that colleagues asking each other out is always unprofessional, if they know each other outside of work and if a “no” is respected. For a reducto ad absurdam, Google employees don’t have to avoid dating all 180,000 other Google employees. Clearly, in a smaller organization, asking people out is more fraught and often wise to avoid. But I don’t think it’s wrong 100% of the time. I have dated work colleagues before without a problem.
  
  (TBC I don’t mean to defend Riley’s behavior here, which clearly crosses a line.)

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