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Post by spaceneedle on May 4, 2021 8:04:45 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2021 10:20:35 GMT
Since something like 50% of marriages in the United States end in divorce, what I wonder is why these announcements are considered to be news. On top of that with so many people never bothering to get married in the first place, none of it is anybody's business.
With people like Bezos and Gates, the only thing that people really talk about is the monetary aspect anyway.
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Post by spaceneedle on May 5, 2021 22:31:29 GMT
The biggest question of note about this parting is what will happen to the Foundation.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 6, 2021 3:17:14 GMT
They said they would continue to work together for the foundation.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 17, 2021 18:11:27 GMT
I am appalled that this subject is still in the news. Bill made "inappropriate" advances to some women 20 years ago? They spurned him, so what's the deal? I have been subjected to inappropriate advances from both women and men in my life. I never had a problem saying no even when I was groped. Should I have gone to the police? This is really getting ridiculous. Actually, I kind of miss the days when people made inappropriate advances to me.
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Post by bjd on May 17, 2021 18:26:42 GMT
I suppose we are going from a period when "advances" and other inappropriate behaviour was common and, if not condoned, at least sort of accepted, to the opposite extreme when anything done or said 20 years earlier is considered as dramatic. Perhaps we will end up somewhere in the middle in a few decades?
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Post by mich64 on May 17, 2021 23:15:06 GMT
From a report I heard today, it might have been more than an inappropriate situation. It is rumoured to be of a multi year affair that developed from a position of power over a subordinate, possibly the reason for his resignation from the board last year (although he denies this was the reason). I think we have not heard the end of this as also there are reports of his close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, gossip at this point.
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Post by spaceneedle on May 18, 2021 7:47:51 GMT
I don't think that saying "no" to Bill Gates was necessarily an option, when you work(ed) at Microsoft.That is, if you want to KEEP working there...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2021 9:27:39 GMT
Like in a million other companies.
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Post by fumobici on May 18, 2021 15:09:47 GMT
People using their superior positions in a workplace hierarchy to coerce sex is and has always been highly inappropriate, even when it was less taboo.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 18, 2021 16:26:28 GMT
Never worked for me....
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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2021 16:29:54 GMT
I always suspected you of having superior positions, Mick.
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Post by whatagain on May 18, 2021 18:47:36 GMT
I was open for any proposal, but they never came...
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Post by spaceneedle on May 18, 2021 22:37:33 GMT
People using their superior positions in a workplace hierarchy to coerce sex is and has always been highly inappropriate, even when it was less taboo. 100%. As someone who experienced workplace harassment, none of this surprises me. But on a good note, it motivated me to work harder to get into a profession where I could work for myself and have less exposure to that bullshit.
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Post by whatagain on May 20, 2021 17:03:12 GMT
On a more personal account, I realize i have married for... 27 years...
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2021 17:58:56 GMT
You got married when you were 12?!
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Post by whatagain on May 22, 2021 13:04:27 GMT
You got married when you were 12?! Belgium... everything is possible. |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2021 13:42:02 GMT
 But it seems like such a nice place! |
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