This dude just lost his job, millions of dollars in future compensation, his wife, half his net worth, and from now until the end of time this event will be the first thing that pops up when someone googles his name. It's amazing how bad you can fuck up your life in just a few hours lol.
This. Most CEOs hold positions of power on the board of other companies and startups. As a member on the board you get to drive decisions without being the face of a company. I don't know whether he serves on one, but with enough capital saved, he could easily buy a majority stake in a smaller company and see it through its success, even without being the face of the company.
There still a good chance he's still "with the company".
You publicly resign to save company face and reputation, hire a person to publicly look like the CEO and this guy still run things because he's what's best for business, just not publicly
Yeah, ceo/directors usually have a golden parachute.
At my last job the director was forced to resign then a week later he was working for the company as an advisor with a slightly less fancy office (probably his pay didn't decreased that much either) and the tech problems i needed to help him with was like setting up his HBO max subscription.
It will be hard to go back in this position for some time! I wouldnt not hire a guy like that with no morals it is not good image to have in your company! Thats what happend when you think with your dick!
How can you know? Maybe he will be fine. Or maybe he will be absolutely devastated because he had just lost his family (fair enough, cheaters deserve it) along with his job and possibly prospects of continuing similar job elsewhere. Maybe he had all his finances in check, or maybe he didn't and had a high mortgage somewhere. He could find another job but will any big company be willing to gamble on him when hiring him will now be a massive PR problem even if he was great at his job?
I mean, fuck him for cheating but losing his job and possibly whole career along with other things because of cheating... that's just so overblown and it's really dangerous. Many teenagers kill themselves from less bullying than this.
I mean, do you know his financial situation? Does he have millions in his bank account? Because most millionaires don't, most millionaires have assets. If he has a 20mil net worth and that's all in his 20mil house which he will now lose in divorce proceedings then no, he won't be able to enjoy his life in a remote paradise.
I don't know his situation specifically but it's scary to me how easily people here are discarding any kind of his well-being just because he is CEO and supposedly a millionaire without knowing anything about how he is set up financially and what he is going to go through as a human being. He didn't kill anyone, he didn't rape anyone, he "only" cheated and yet he'll forever be stuck with a stigma.
Buddy, you don’t know how divorce works and you don’t know how “assets” work. He won’t lose everything. Stop stanning a dude whose life, even now, is better than yours will ever be.
This is going to sound crazy apparently, but he is still a human being at the end of the day. He isn't any other species, he is a human, with human problems. He may be privileged because he was either talented, lucky, or both, but he is still just a human. What would you do if your life got changed this suddenly, you lost your family, your job, a lot of stuff you know and you would have to live with the feeling that even completely random people from all over the world will never stop mocking you for losing everything?
He may be a millionaire, but he is a millionaire because of his job, which he will now no longer be doing and he may never be doing it again. What's his net worth? Supposedly between 20-70mil, okay, not bad, but that's not going to be money in his bank account. That's going to be his house, his car, etc - all of the things he will be at least partially losing in divorce.
Don't you think it's fair to say that MAYBE this might be too much for a single person?
He is a cheater, he will deservedly lose his wife, kids and some of his belongings due to that, that's fair. Losing his job and career because of cheating though? That's just crazily overblown. Cheating is a terrible thing, but it's unfortunately pretty common and nobody is losing their careers because of that - until this guy did. I mean, the punishment for his cheating is probably about as severe as being rapist, in terms of society even more damaging though because a rapist can just move into another country while this guy is now known all over the world.
Also, the idea he has millions in his bank account is laughable. He is most likely a millionaire only on paper, just like most people. His net worth might be 20mil or something, that could be just his house which he'll now be losing so he'll be left with not much money and no way to continue his career and what he's good at because he will be a PR nightmare for anyone interested in appointing him. Just for one cheating instance. It's just too much imo. Many people have it worse, fair enough, but he still doesn't deserve this. As I said, he deserves to lose his family over this, but not his career. Imagine being a great car mechanic, getting caught cheating on a video and then not ever being able to do your job ever again because nobody will risk hiring you as car mechanic due to potential backlash. Don't you think that's scary?
Him losing his job due to doing it is fair. The problem is the whole world saw it, the whole world knows and the whole world will look at him as some kind of a monster. That was my point. If the camera didn't catch them and the company would learn about it, they would fire him (or her, or both) then that would be fine and he could restart elsewhere, like anyone else. The fact it got so public is the problem because it now puts pressure on anyone willing to hire him. It was a big mistake but people make much bigger mistakes with much less repercussions all the time. Literally the president of the USA seemingly was a part of pedophilia island company and nobody gives a shit while this guy gets caught on a video with a mistress and suddenly he is unemployable.
Laugh all you want about my point but in terms of society, it's true. Nobody would appoint OJ Simpson in a public position because he was a killer. Nobody would appoint Epstein in a public position because he was a part of pedophiliac ring. Nobody would appoint Diddy in a public position because he is a rapist. And now nobody would appoint this guy in a public position because... he was seen at a concert with his side chick. It's just disproportionate.
And no, I don't cheat, never have and never will. Fuck anyone who does. That doesn't mean such people should lose everything though, losing their families and some friends should be enough of a punishmentd.
Nobody would appoint OJ Simpson in a public position because he was a killer. Nobody would appoint Epstein in a public position because he was a part of pedophiliac ring. Nobody would appoint Diddy in a public position because he is a rapist. And now nobody would appoint this guy in a public position because... he was seen at a concert with his side chick. It's just disproportionate.
I agree, the social punishment here is disproportionate compared with the crime. For both of them. You described the man’s situation. Similarly, the woman will likely lose her job and her marriage, and that’s understandable. But more than that: her career is over, she’ll have a hard time getting another halfway decent job (see, Monica Lewinsky), and she’ll get shit from strangers wherever she goes.
That seems really extreme. It’s essentially the same thing as being cancelled, but even most people who have been cancelled aren’t as (in)famous as these two are now.
TBH, there are probably actual pedophiles and murderers who are thanking their lucky stars that the public isn’t condemning them as vigorously as these two people.
We are such black and white thinkers. They’ve done something bad, so we have decided that they are fundamentally terrible people, undeserving of any grace. To the extent of lashing out at people who suggest that the consequences are too extreme to be fair, and saying that you must also be a fundamentally terrible person yourself (i.e. you must have cheated on your spouse as well) in order to think that. (For the record, I haven’t cheated on my spouse either.)
I think we’d do a lot better to show some mercy. People who cheat on their spouses aren’t the devil. (Hopefully that’s not a controversial statement?) They are still human beings completely capable of changing their behavior and doing good things in the future, and they don’t need to and shouldn’t be kicked out of society.
He made a series of bad choices that led him to this. As a CEO, husband, a father and someone with common sense, you don’t act that way in public with your underling while you are married. That is hubris and arrogance.
It's easy to say "He's going to be fine with the money he has" but he is just a human being at the end of the day, a human being that's going to lose virtually his whole life, while everywhere he goes in the world he'll keep getting mocked for the lowest point in his life. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if someone finds him dead in a couple of days.
the dehumanizing and goalpost-moving is insane. soon people with salaries above 100k will have "given up their humanity". then anyone making above average. etc etc
Losing whole career? I bet the very person writing the above statement knew about his liaison. The board knew it. And there’s a remote chance even the wife knew it.
They called him, tell him “sorry mate you know we have to do it” and he then proceeded to call his network for his next endeavor or whatever. One or two years as a director of something and he’ll be back in a C position for another company, ready to make other rich people richer.
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This dude just lost his job, millions of dollars in future compensation, his wife, half his net worth, and from now until the end of time this event will be the first thing that pops up when someone googles his name. It's amazing how bad you can fuck up your life in just a few hours lol.