Astronomer Hires Coldplay Lead Singer's Ex-Wife as 'Temporary' Spokesperson: Gwyneth Paltrow (bbc.com) 153
The "Chief People Officer" of dataops company Astronomer resigned this week from her position after apparently being caught on that "Kiss Cam" at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original co-founder and chief product officer as the new interim CEO.
UPDATE (7/26): In an unexpected twist, Astronomer put out a new video Friday night starring... Gwyneth Paltrow.
Actress/businesswoman Paltrow "was married to Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin for 13 years," reports CBS News. In the video posted Friday, Paltrow says she was hired by Astronomer as a "very temporary" spokesperson.
"Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days," Paltrow begins, "and they wanted me to answer the most common ones..."
As the question "OMG! What the actual f" begins appearing on the screen, Paltrow responds "Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow, unifying the experience of running data, ML, and AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation." (Paltrow also mentions the company's upcoming Beyond Analytics dataops conference in September.)
Astronomer is still grappling with unintended fame after the "Kiss Cam" incident. ("Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy," Coldplay's lead singer had said during the viral video, in which the startled couple hurries to hide off-camera). The incident raised privacy concerns, as it turns out both people in the video were in fact married to someone else, though the singer did earlier warn the crowd "we're going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen," according to CNN. The New York Post notes the woman's now-deleted LinkedIn account showed that she has also served as an "advisory board member" at her husband's company since September of 2020. The Post cites a source close to the situation who says the woman's husband "was in Asia for a few weeks," returning to America right as the video went viral. Kristin and Andrew Cabot married sometime after her previous divorce was finalized in 2022. The source said there had been little indication of any trouble in paradise before the Coldplay concert video went viral. "The family is now saying they have been having marriage troubles for several months and were discussing separating..."
The video had racked up 127 million videos by yesterday, notes Newsweek, adding that the U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail apparently took photos outside the woman's house, reporting that she does not appear to be wearing a wedding ring.
UPDATE (7/26): In an unexpected twist, Astronomer put out a new video Friday night starring... Gwyneth Paltrow.
Actress/businesswoman Paltrow "was married to Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin for 13 years," reports CBS News. In the video posted Friday, Paltrow says she was hired by Astronomer as a "very temporary" spokesperson.
"Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days," Paltrow begins, "and they wanted me to answer the most common ones..."
As the question "OMG! What the actual f" begins appearing on the screen, Paltrow responds "Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow, unifying the experience of running data, ML, and AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation." (Paltrow also mentions the company's upcoming Beyond Analytics dataops conference in September.)
Astronomer is still grappling with unintended fame after the "Kiss Cam" incident. ("Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy," Coldplay's lead singer had said during the viral video, in which the startled couple hurries to hide off-camera). The incident raised privacy concerns, as it turns out both people in the video were in fact married to someone else, though the singer did earlier warn the crowd "we're going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen," according to CNN. The New York Post notes the woman's now-deleted LinkedIn account showed that she has also served as an "advisory board member" at her husband's company since September of 2020. The Post cites a source close to the situation who says the woman's husband "was in Asia for a few weeks," returning to America right as the video went viral. Kristin and Andrew Cabot married sometime after her previous divorce was finalized in 2022. The source said there had been little indication of any trouble in paradise before the Coldplay concert video went viral. "The family is now saying they have been having marriage troubles for several months and were discussing separating..."
The video had racked up 127 million videos by yesterday, notes Newsweek, adding that the U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail apparently took photos outside the woman's house, reporting that she does not appear to be wearing a wedding ring.
Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:2)
Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:4, Funny)
Catholic values? You like to fuck altar boys? Congrats, this is a crime here.
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Of all the kiss-cam memes on the internet, I have not yet seen that one. But the world needs it.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:4, Funny)
Obvious Distraction - Hire former movie star (Score:2)
1) Cheating behavior, those responsible for corporate policy violate it themselves
2) Bad publicity for the company
3) Quick, get someone who was a famous movie star 25 years ago....
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After the scandal, the Catholic Church cleaned up their act and rates of abuse sharply declined. Every person who interacts with a child in any capacity - parents, youth ministers, and yes priests - must follow strict guidelines and is monitored.
By contrast, 10% of all public school chlidren will be sexually molested or abused by a public school teacher or administrator.
Best estimate is a 'factor of 100 t
Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
Now, for everybody that should be a WTF moment. Yes, sure, it's a big problem. However, there's no way that the teachers are getting away with molesting 10% of children.
I wondered where this number can come from and I think I've found it. The Nature and Scope of Educator Misconduct in K-12 [nih.gov]. Unfortunately it seems to be behind paywalls. We can, however see many of the findings [levinsimes.com] and we realize that this is being deeply misrepresented. As well as molesting and abuse, harassment and potential but not actual harassment are included in the number quoted.
When we look at the actual number which matches with this comment directly, "Touching a student sexually accounts for 0.9% of teacher actions." and "Incidents of sexual intercourse or oral sex account for 0.4% of misconduct." meaning that 1.3% of the incidents come under "molested or abused". Or in other words approximately (ignoring repeat incidents, impossible to calculate without the raw data) the actual percentage doing the equivalent of the priests is only 0.14%, which really doesn't support the public school system being as dangerous as the church.
This is a perfect example of the dangers of the way sexual misconduct data is misrepresented. "New report shows big cats eat most people". And in the research paper on "food interactions with felines" "55% of people respondents having been eaten by a Lion, eaten by a Tiger, fed a pet cat or seen a Lion eating in a wildlife documentary; this represents 9 people within our self selecting sample, and unfortunately the questions we asked don't allow us to break this group down further but does suggest further research into human interactions with Lions may be worthwhile"
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While true, 1.3% of 10% is still a whole lot of children abused by public school employees.
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I guess the question is "what do you expect the answer to be?". I'm not shocked, but I wish it was lots less.
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You're orders of magnitude more likely to be molested by a public school teacher than by a priest.
While I don't know the orders of magnitude, the virtual elimination of males from schools has not done what we were promised, and women simply do not molest children.
Yeah, no. Turns out that there are a lot of female pedophiles out there. We don't hear about them as much, because the media doesn't like anything that runs counter to their narrative, and even if convicted, they tend to get "punishment" like a year of probation.
Best estimate is a 'factor of 100 times' more likely today to be abused in a
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:3)
Ah, it's all about how you normalize your data.
Yes, children are more likely to be abused by teachers ... but there are a lot more teachers in the world. A pastor is still more likely to be a molester than a teacher.
There's also questions about how much more likely other children (or their parents) are willing to come forward when the molestation has happened to a teacher vs a pastor/clergy. (my grandfather was abused by a Catholic priest, and his mom treated him as a liar and refused to believe a priest
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There's also the overlap. I've known too many that were abused by teachers who were also Brothers or Sisters, Catholic or Anglican ran Residential Schools, called Boarding schools in America.
Since the argument about the dangers of teachers came up, I've paid attention, most of the teacher student interactions have been between older students and young teachers and would have been perfectly legal without the power inbalance.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Informative)
Catholic values? So you believe women should be excluded from positions of power?
When you made this post, you forgot the most important Catholic value: shame.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, he forgot a foundational Catholic/Christian value:
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
Matthew 7:1-5
I'm no Christian, not even the least bit religious, but there has seldom been a better proclamation of charity and forgiveness than this passage from Matthew.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:4, Interesting)
Imagine being downvoted for posting "judge not lest ye be judged."
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Imagine being downvoted for posting, "Catholicism is a misogynistic cult!"
Instead, I should have used mod points to +1 the AC who called out Catholicism as an international pedophile ring.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm an atheist, so in one sense I have no horse in this race. But while there's no denying the Church hierarchy protected pedophiles, and for a lot longer than even many Catholics would like to believe, it's not a central tenet of the Catholic faith. The Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, the Theokotos, the Ascension, Papal Infallibility when speaking ex cathedra, and the soteriological nature of the Church, those are core tenets.
And so is Matthew 7:5, which is in Catholic and in most Christian traditions the very heart of Christian ethics.
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I kid at the Catholics' expense, but only because I think they deserve it.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:2)
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Funnily enough, from the analysis I've just done in my other comment [slashdot.org], that's almost exactly the level to which this is misrepresenting the situation. Based on the publicly visible data only 1.4% of the interactions with teachers in the paper come under the actual physical molestation or rape which the priests were doing.
It's interesting the way that not only is the reaction to the mild suggestion "you've got to stop raping children" seems to be "but they do it too" a
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There's also the overlap. Here in Canada, a lot of the problems were in Residential Schools where the teachers were also Brothers and Sisters, both Catholic and Anglican.
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Ah. Yes of course. You'd need the raw data with those broken out to even be able to understand what's going on, probably not something the researchers are motivated to provide.
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Let's be very brutally honest. If a child is molested, the odds are most likely that it will be a close relative or friend of the family. It's fathers, sadly, who are by far the most likely perpetrators of sexual assault on minors.
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Or maybe the guy isn't having affairs and is (by the standards of the bible verse you just quoted) well within his right to make rather passive and harmless suggestions about not getting caught on camera having an affair.
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you forgot the most important Catholic value: shame.
You were 1/2 there! It's actually shame and GUILT!! And I'm NOT a Catholic, I got this tidbit of info from a Catholic Girl ;)
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Great job guys! As an atheist former altar-boy, I'm loving the critique of Catholicism.
Now do Islam! I dare you :-)
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Great job guys! As an atheist former altar-boy, I'm loving the critique of Catholicism.
Now do Islam! I dare you :-)
As a former Catholic, along with many members of my extended family, after a priest was caught enjoying introducing a cousin to the ways of the church, it is most interesting that you believe any claims are specious unless we dismiss Islam as well?
Christianity and Islam are very closely related, same angry desert gawd, and both are a cancer upon this world. Pure distilled evil.
We don't have to simultaneously condemn Islam at the same time we condemn Catholicism to understand that both are evil. Almost
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it is most interesting that you [strawman alert] believe any claims are specious unless we dismiss Islam as well?
It is interesting that you fuck altar boys. ... Do I win the competition for worst reading of another post? Just how dumb are you to say such a thing? Yes I get angry when words are falsely put in my mouth.
I made it very clear I supported the above, and was asking to widen it. That is far from "whataboutism".
Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
The only sin that's anyone's business is that the CEO was having an intimate relationship with a subordinate, and the only people that matters to is their coworkers, the board and the shareholders.
1. The coworkers, because these kinds of relationships can actually be very demoralizing. Even the perception of favoritism, whether real or not, has a terrible effect on everyone else.
2. The board because it is their fiduciary duty to protect the company's reputation and eliminate to whatever extent possible any liability that can come from such a relationship (superiors having intimate relationships with subordinates opens up a number of issues surrounding sexual coercion and the risks involved if the relationship turns sour).
3. The shareholders, because reputational harm and lawsuits can negatively impact their investment.
Nowhere in there is your tender sensibilities a consideration, beyond the very limited context that you might be a customer or advertiser who might get turned off. Even if that's true, being self-righteous and vicariously inferring your superior morality largely erases that, and as a Catholic, I'm sure it's at this juncture that you should ponder your Savior's own words at Matthew 7:5 before you delight in building yourself up on an Internet forum at the expense of fellow human beings that made a sad and not terribly uncommon error in judgment.
For myself, I actually feel very sorry for them. Beyond the damage to their reputations and careers, they are human beings just like me, capable of great joy and then great humiliation and shame, and for them, this awful coupling, even if completely their own responsibility, all happened while the rest of the world decided amongst all the real and tangible problems, to mock them. I viscerally hate it when anyone is publicly humiliated, even if they are entirely responsible for the humiliation.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:2, Interesting)
You seem pretty sure of yourself. Why should I give a care for the three groups you think have a stake? You know none of those people. They are no more your concern than anyone else in this story. Forget them all, and move on.
Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm having a hard time parsing what about my post you have object to.
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I'm having a hard time parsing what about my post you have object to.
You noted you are Catholic.
Respectfully and out of curiosity, how do you reconcile your religion with the fact that the church allowed grown men to engage in pedophilia with no punishment than sending the pedophiles to new places to continue their practice? It is not possible to claim that this was isolated cases. Children were harmed, and their predators were not punished.
And in a particular pernecious move, after a cousin who committed suicide largely in part to the way the church handled his sexual
Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
and the only people that matters to is their coworkers, the board and the shareholders.
It doesn't matter to their (soon-to-be ex) spouses? Or their kids?
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It matters to them but is none of our business.
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Pretty sure that the married CEO with 3 children also has to answer to his wife and children, whom the affair most definitely harms, and presumably HR Karen's husband is also harmed. Not surprising you managed to miss those though.
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He probably does but that part is not our business.
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Pretty sure that the married CEO with 3 children also has to answer to his wife and children, whom the affair most definitely harms, and presumably HR Karen's husband is also harmed. Not surprising you managed to miss those though.
That's the funny part too, as the whole thing is based on condemnation of the person with the penis, as if the HR lady was an innocent trapped in the clutched of the evilz man.
Just the title of the thread "I>Cheating on your wife is a bad idea" illustrates that. It takes two to tango, but our misandry is so ingrained that few will note that there is any other possibility than the man being at fault.
All that said, if a man and woman wish to have an affair like that, keep it out of public places wher
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If the guy's gonna act like that, getting married in the first place was probably the mistake. Some people are not very good at being monogamous.
Same goes for the HR lady.
Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score:5, Funny)
Especially when it is done in public on video. But I am just an aging Gen X'er with Catholic values!
Even worse is going to a Coldplay concert. Worse than cheating on your wife. Shows that you have much deficiency in your character that you somehow ended up in that situation.
Coldplay should know better than to put their audience on the jumbotron. Every single person there would be embarrassed to be known to have attended a Coldplay concert.
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More importantly, the HR bitch had a long time subordinate who acted as her right hand through multiple HR positions at different companies buy the tickets using company funds and the subordinate went with them to the concert to cover for the affair. THAT was why they were fired. Not the affair.
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Especially when it is done in public on video. But I am just an aging Gen X'er with Catholic values!
The important thing is that two people have been cancelled. This brings joy to the hearts of the world. In today's social media owned world, there were billions of involuntary orgasms when the man and woman lost their careers.
Catholic values? I take it confession and a good act of contrition, and you'd be all good? Knowing that the forgiveness mechanism between God and his flawed sinners, all will be right, and the two will be free to walk the earth again free of condescension from us other sinners?
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Especially when it is done in public on video. But I am just an aging Gen X'er with Catholic values!
I knew you'd get the ritual beating reaction here, lol
You are of course right though. Life is much simpler, safer, and happier if you only have sex with your own spouse.
No one cared about their affair. (Score:5, Informative)
What people got pissy about was the sheer public hypocrisy of a head of HR who could not follow the same rules she expected the rank and file to adhere to, and the same from the CEO who enacts those rules.
Re: No one cared about their affair. (Score:3)
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LOL. No, literally no one cared about policy of a company and no one got pissy either. Now reset your AI, and stop hallucinating non-existent outrage.
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Pretty sure that's mandatory for anyone in HR.
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What I was entertained by was seeing two highly paid, influential people get *BUSTED* in front of a whole crowd of people. It's sort of everybody's private daydream of finally seeing pompous hypocrites brought to justice in front of the world.
Re: Its more a narcissist thing .... (Score:2)
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If the CEO is a narcissist, he should exploit the situation, get paid to go on talk shows as an "anti-cheating" proponent that learned his lesson, maybe even a privacy advocate, then start a private investigation company or something. That doesn't seem to be his angle.
Give it a moment. The narcissist is probably fully aware that the lady is a much more interesting target for the media. First, being an attractive women. Second, being involved as a HR exec is far far more interesting than as a CEO. So stay quiet, let her be the focus, make your moves when the media has moved on to the next inebriating story. Having an affair with an employee is largely a non-issue among tech-bros, regardless of what they may be saying for the camera right now. He just needs to lay low for
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Except his wife will get an even bigger payout. He had a wife and two kids, and this very public blowout meant basically a huge divorce settlement with lots of money in child and spousal support.
The reason people are happy about it is the same
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You mean like every republican who has their mistress get an abortion? Christian morals on display.
Do you imagine narcissists actually believe in a party platform, even theirs, whether Repub or Dem? No, its basically always rules are for us, and not for them. What rules they champion are nothing more than what is more likely to get them elected.
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Like it's OK when you fly off to Pedo island with your best friend. But not so good when other people do it.
I don't think Bill Clinton has made any accusations about anyone else. I think he just plays dumb about it all.
Ashley Madison part 2.0 (Score:4, Informative)
Do like all smart affair-havers do, don't got to a public venue with lots of people and cameras.
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I used to ride my motorcycle through the Santa Monica mountains all the time. There was a spot off Mullholland where lots of apparent cheaters would meet, park one car and leave in another, all the time. Rich housewife pickup spot.
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What you said is indeed better.
But humans are involved so bad things will happen.
Now, back to my coffee.
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Why isn't it better to say, "don't cheat on your spouse"
Because the mantra is that in affairs, it is always the person with a penis' fault.
The irony in all of that is that outside of cases of rape, women are the ones who give consent for sex.
Yes, it is both of their fault.
As is overwhelmingly likely, she looked at the affair with the CEO as a step up, the so called hypergamous instinct. So she made herself available to the CEO. He enjoyed that availability.
To see how deeply the misandry is rooted, there will be people in her who will freak, claiming I'm
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Do like all smart affair-havers do, don't got to a public venue with lots of people and cameras.
Ironically a concert is one of the better places to go. They are dimly lit and aside from this one example for the most people no one recognises (or even pays attention to) anyone at such events. In fact the only reason anyone paid attention to these guys is because the person whom they were paying attention to, specifically called them out.
why she "resigned" (Score:5, Insightful)
She didn't really resign, it was almost certainly more of a "you resign or we fire you, which do you want on your job history?"
Companies need their employees to have some level of trust in their HR people. A smart employee will know "HR is NOT your friend". They're not employed to be your friend, their main job is to protect the company from its employees. Like discouraging them from filing lawsuits the company will lose, and to stop their manager (and other employees in general) from doing illegal things to other employees that will trigger such a lawsuit. They try to spin "this will be bad for the company" into "this will be bad for you", to change your mind or change your behavior. You can be much more influential if people feel they can trust you.
And "I cheated on my spouse" is not a trustworthy look. That, along with the sprinkling of bad press the company got, is why she "resigned".
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Not only is it a bad look, but it literally *is* bad.
When a person in a position of authority in a company, is dating a subordinate, it leaves the company open to the risk of favoritism, or worse, blackmail. Those effects can certainly lead to lawsuits, or worse.
The problem is you got caught & were expendabl (Score:5, Interesting)
Look, cheating is shitty, but I've learned to accept that people do shitty things and I have to just tolerate things...people, almost always with children, have affairs...others get high or abuse themselves...others just act recklessly and stupidly and I have to just accept it since they're harming their families and not mine. I know that if every cheater was scooped off the face of the planet, I'd lose most of my bosses and a lot of my friends...probably a bunch of family members I didn't know about either....so I try not to judge.
What infuriates me is how stupid they were. You're fucking your own HR lady? You need to fuck another woman?...you can't get on tinder and find anyone else?...you got a thing for HR ladies?...can't you fuck another company's HR lady? You're a fucking CEO that travels often...you can find a mistress. You fucked up life for your employees who depend on you to be smarter....but really, I will wager you're only marginally more talented than any janitor or car mechanic and easily replaceable with someone that can do a far better job, especially among the executives in your company. Hopefully they'll show more discretion.
At least twice in my life, I've worked with my boss's mistress. It's very stressful and scary. One was a massive unprofessional bitch, but I couldn't complain because my boss was also a prick. Everyone knew what they were doing...so everyone was walking on eggshells for his bipolar mistress. She didn't do her job and pushed her tasks on others and I have no clue why she was hired at all (she wasn't even hot...just a skinny, psycho, barely-MILF). I suppose I should thank them because it motivated me to finally look for a better job and I got a much better one. The second time, I didn't know until I pissed off the mistress for pointing out how one of her mistakes was the cause of a customer outage (I was asked by my boss what happened) and the boss started penalizing me afterwards(a coworker who was much more of a gossip informed me afterward). He was fired 6 months later, for something HR related, the rumor being sexually harassing an intern.
Folks, if you're going to be shitty, don't shit where you eat. You're harming yourself, your family, your affair-partner's family, and everyone who depends on you at work. In this case, he either harmed his company...or perhaps benefitted them?...because now I know the company's name...they seem like a shitty low-end cloud provider and now they're national news.
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What infuriates me is how stupid they were. You're fucking your own HR lady? You need to fuck another woman?...you can't get on tinder and find anyone else?...you got a thing for HR ladies?...can't you fuck another company's HR lady? You're a fucking CEO that travels often...you can find a mistress.
I doubt either party was actively looking to cheat on their existing partner. I think he and the lady in HR became attracted to each other. Psychologists say the top three factors for attraction are proximity, similarity, and familiarity. The attraction developed while they were working together and, quite foolishly, they acted upon it.
Another fun one from psychology is that men go through a midlife crisis, which tends to involve a lot of mate seeking behavior, when their wife enters menopause. Not hard
If you're booking ColdPlay tickets, it was planned (Score:2)
What infuriates me is how stupid they were. You're fucking your own HR lady? You need to fuck another woman?...you can't get on tinder and find anyone else?...you got a thing for HR ladies?...can't you fuck another company's HR lady? You're a fucking CEO that travels often...you can find a mistress.
I doubt either party was actively looking to cheat on their existing partner. I think he and the lady in HR became attracted to each other. Psychologists say the top three factors for attraction are proximity, similarity, and familiarity. The attraction developed while they were working together and, quite foolishly, they acted upon it.
Another fun one from psychology is that men go through a midlife crisis, which tends to involve a lot of mate seeking behavior, when their wife enters menopause. Not hard to see how that trait evolved.
It's helpful to remember that we are animals and to expend the effort to engage our frontal lobes in these situations...
These are all valid points. However, this wasn't a single mistake. If you're booking ColdPlay concert tickets with your mistress, you've thought things through a bit. You've had time to shower, clear your head, reflect...as well as a few instances of post-nut clarity. What infuriates me and I assume many people is not that he was cheating, but that he was brazen about it. You can't be a respectable CEO and not hide your misdeeds. We generally assume you're a piece of shit if you're rich and powerful..
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Yeah, makes sense.
We generally assume you're a piece of shit if you're rich and powerful...but we expect you not to rub it in our face.
You wouldn't happen to be a philosopher publishing in the area of social contract theory by any chance?
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Shows how worthless & interchangeable nearly all CEOS are.
It is not like further evidence for that was required.
The Video (Score:5, Insightful)
The video is amusing. Astronomer is handling turning an embarrassment into an opportunity. Good on them.
Continuity of cringe (Score:2, Interesting)
Re: "This Smells Like My Vagina" scented candles (Score:4, Funny)
Totally bogus, don't buy them!
I bought those candles and they smelled like old fish.
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She is a typical right-wing grifter. She is part of the The worst grifters of the Coronavirus pandemic [iheart.com] podcast episode from Behind the bastards [behindthebastards.com].
Astronomy (Score:2)
Why are they called Astronomer if they don't look at the stars? Too bad really, because if they were actually doing astronomy at scale, there wouldn't have been an available telescoping lens to zoom into their CEO.
Re:Astronomy (Score:4, Insightful)
I want to be a People Officer (Score:2)
Re:I want to be a People Officer (Score:4, Funny)
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The qualifications are:
- Being able to constantly speak in euphemisms
- Being able to be politically correct
- Being able to develop mind-numbing compliance courses
- Being able to handle employee complaints when other people don't pay attention to compliance courses
Gwyneth Paltrow? (Score:2)
I want one of her pussy-scented candles. It;s the closest I'll get.
Black Mirror (Score:3, Insightful)
Is Astronomer supposed to be a tech company? (Score:3)
This, folks, is why China is winning.
Meh (Score:3)
Clearly the company wanted to be clever, ironic, or get free publicity by hiring Chris Martinâ(TM)s ex wife. Regardless, I donâ(TM)t even understand the point. There is no connection between a cheating CEO and a happily divorced woman. They must have thrown a large amount of money at Gwyneth for her to do this ad, but it fails to be clever in any humorous way. The media sure likes it, though. Why? Probably because they were paid to.
The right choice (Score:2)
The only chick where eggs don't come OUT at the bottom, she puts eggs IN.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world... [bbc.com]
The important part (Score:2)
"Oh look, a camera caught them! This is great!"
So as needed, both have lost their careers and families. Fairness in the world, and cancellation 1.0 FTW
Then in order to salve the required outburst, and to placate a large part of the social media crowd, they hire the woman who makes candles that smell like her vagina https://pagesix.com/2025/05/18... [pagesix.com] to appeal to
Is "ex" a theme here? (Score:2)
Paltrow is the ex of the Cold Play front man.
Two more corporate officers are probably about to be exes.
worse (Score:2)
They're making it worse: "Gwyneth Paltrow defends selling controversial $75 vagina candle"
Re:Prurient Interests (Score:4, Interesting)
Do the Coldplay Kiss cam people have a 170+ page House Congressional Investigation report on them?
FINAL REPORT OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS [house.gov]
"We" as in the public at large do know more about Crooks. Most people don't want to be assed to find out that. Don't act like it doesn't exist or nobody did the work.
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What do you think is missing from the report and where are you getting those facts?
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As the meme says, "we knew more about the Coldplay Kisscam couple after one day than we know about Matthew Crooks after one year."
Be careful about what people find interesting but be even more careful about what people find anti-interesting.
Especially the "free press".
If I were going to assassinate a president you can be darn sure a) I wouldn't tell anyone about it, b) wouldn't leave any notes lying around, c) would destroy my hard drive well prior to the day, and d) would make sure I can hit my target at 400 feet.
Re:Prurient Interests (Score:5, Insightful)
Because Matthew Crooks was a registered republican. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t... [cbsnews.com]
That's why the administration has been silent. Had this guy been a democrat they'd still be talking about the "radical left".
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Save a screenshot, this is going away next week.
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Anyone can register for whichever party they like. There isn't a litmus test. Crooks had a lot more in his background than just being a registered Republican, and a good bit of it wasn't consistent with Republican party platforms or Trumpism in general.
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Who the hell is Matthew Crooks?
No, wait, Nevermind. I have a feeling it doesn't matter.
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He shot Donald Trump in the ear.
Re: Prurient Interests (Score:2)
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I knew it didn't matter.
But good on you for keep track of the names of all the nobodies in the world.
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As the meme says, "we knew more about the Coldplay Kisscam couple after one day than we know about Matthew Crooks after one year."
There's a lot of info about him [wikipedia.org].
Would be more accurate to say, "We know why the Coldplay couple did what they did, we have no clue why Matthew did what he did."
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It's somebody who gets paid to make your life miserable.
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My wife is a "people officer"?
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It means head of HR department. Some people who want "C ... O" as a vanity template for their job title.
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People kept pointing out that "human resources" is pretty dehumanizing so they came up with friendlier sounding names.
Re: Really accidental? (Score:2)
I thought that hiring GP was Astronomer's weird attempt at some sort of flex on Crooks. "Hire Paltrow, i bet she's got dirt on him!"