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I wish they would just leave these poor people alone.. whats that? They are rich? Oh then by all means burn them at the stake.

I wish they would maybe capitalize the proper nouns in this post. On first readings, not knowing Astronomer is the name of a corporation, I thought they were just referring to a CEO that also happened to be an avid stargazer -"What a strange detail to include...".

I had to look it up

Sucks that the company is named Astronomer. It's not even space based.

Thank you for clearing this up! I, like I assume many were, was assuming this dude was a scientist.
- Stockton Rush's passengers made the same mistake.
Such a stupid name for a company.

And they would have likely gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that pesky kisscam.

Might have also gotten away with it if they didn't completely freak out in front of the kiss cam, so everyone started thinking they were cheating and looked into who they were.
- This. Entirely this.
  If they had just gone "woo hoo we're on the TV thing at a concert! Woohoo" .... Like everyone expected them to, then nobody would have given a shit.
  They're just people having fun at a concert.
  Meanwhile, they freaked the fuck out, the guys on stage pointed it out, and everyone went full Psycho trying to figure out what was going on. And now they're in the daily dose of Internet.
  GG guys. Ĝis poste
- Y'all remember the guy that was exposed with his side girl at an NBA game?

There is only 1 CEO I have seen hit the ground faster than that, I don't think I am beeing too harsh.

We need more ~~CEOs~~ data.

Why do we care about this?

Is anyone involved in this, someone i should know?

The news of it happening doesn't land like the video of it happening does.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMMm-ePtVfU/
It's fucking brutal.
- "Coldplay hasn’t made a single in years but today they made two." LOL
- Oh man, so much worse. What an idiot, if they had just smiled and waved it never would’ve gone viral.
  Edit: and also if they had never decided to have an affair they wouldn’t be in the situation in the first place.
- Anyone got a mirror that doesn't require a fucking Instagram account?
  Edit: YouTube short but at least it doesn't try to beg for a login: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xL8gdhw4q5I
Because it's funny as shit.
Because the picture is a future meme template
Because it's brainrot, notice the focus is on the CEO & not on the lady (as in equal focus)
It's ragebait for people who think porking rights should be exclusive by default. And by that I mean nasty horrible idiots. Abolish marriage!
- Uhhh, if you don't like marriage, how about don't get married?! This isn't rocket science... They both got married. They both signed the social contract that by default means exclusivity, regardless of what you think.
  Judging by how they reacted, they also understood their marriages to be assumed exclusivity, and clearly did not discuss open terms with their spouse. So basically... get some logic skills because your opinion on marriage is irrelevant here.
- Toxic polyamory is just as bad as toxic monogamy. If people want to be exclusive they should be exclusive. If your partner wants to be exclusive and you don't, and you choose to cheat, you're still a piece of shit.
- I'm all for people being able to bone other consenting adults, married or not, but these two clearly think that cheating is bad. If they had open relationships, then why would they care if they were seen together?
- I wanted to ask if you're ok there but then I saw lemmy.ml and everything made sense all of a sudden.
- The problem isn't the lack of monogamy, it's the violation of your partner(')(s)(') trust.

Do I need to know who that is? I tried looking up the name but all I can find is gossipy yelling about the two of them and Coldplay so apparently this seems to be some big deal but in general I don't think it should be the public's concern if someone has an affair (exceptions apply).

Their reactions to being on the big screen, which instigated Chris Martin's live commentary, is what's causing this video to go viral.
The point being if they hadn't had this reaction to getting caught, Chris Martin wouldn't have commented, and the video probably never would've taken off or even been posted outside of someone's private story.
If someone is having an affair, and having an affair in a public place, and the affair is between the CEO and the lead person at the company who knows better than to instigate this type of relationship (the head of HR), then this is a hilarious way to get caught.
- So a simple lolcow exacerbated by belonging to a group of people that (deservedly) has image problems. Alright then.
What's weird is that when these videos first started popping up is that every one of them talked about "Astronomer CEO". I couldn't understand how they knew he was a CEO or why he was an astronomer. It turns out that Astronomer is a "DataOps platform built on Apache Airflow". That's even an area I know a fair amount about, and I'd never even heard of them. It's strange that it wasn't just "cheating couple caught on kiss cam", but instead immediately it was "Astronomer CEO".
If you look up the company they have profiles of their leadership. I guess she's the "Chief People Officer" and also the only part of the leadership team that happens to be a woman.
No. You're just witnessing the pathetic side of humanity trying to own someone that gets more pussy or dick than them.
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Oh fuck, not not the camera.... fuck fuck fuck

I don’t get it…

Is he an astronomer? Or is that the name of his company? Seriously, who here had ever even heard of him, or his company prior to this?

Yet somehow this is now major news? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

It's news because it's fucking hilarious. The clip is funny even without knowing it's a corporate scandal. But the context makes it even juicier.
- At least I can take solace in the fact that I don’t need dumb shit like this to be entertained.
Excellent point. There's a certain 'sacrificial lamb' vibe to this. With everything going on right now, how is this worth anyone's time?
I'm not the biggest Coldplay fan, so let me extrapolate: if tomorrow we learned Weird Al Yankovic's mother liked to kick puppies that would certainly be odd, definitely not good news. But I'd still think having Trump not releasing the Epstein files is a matter far more worth our attention.

I wonder if they would have gotten away with it if they'd just played it cool.

100%! Imagine you look up on the big screen and you see two fifty year olds swaying to some generic pop music. Nobody would've cared enough to look them up.
Absolutely
They deserve a meme of me_irl acting cool 😂

I really hate their friends in the video. They’re all aware their friends are piece of shit cheaters, and they find it funny. “Haha we’re taking part in destroying a woman’s life by helping her husband cheat, hilarious!”

I mean theyre both married. Not sure why you're focusing on just the one piece of shit.
- When I last read the story he was confirmed to be married but nobody knew anything about her. That’s why
- In balance of power. Since he is the CEO he holds a position of authority over her. She could very well be in a position where she fearful of retaliation if she doesn't except his advances. I'm not saying that's the case here, but there is a chance it could be.
That's the CEO and CPO, not her friends. She was recently promoted, possibly related to things like this
She's making tens of thousands more per year to be complicit. I've seen people do much worse for much less money
- Dude I've audited Raytheon. I would like to validate every word of your second paragraph
CEOs don't have friends.
I think some of them were just coworkers.
- There’s coworkers and there’s CEO talking certain employees who are aware of his cheating, to the Coldplay concert
People who think ducking other people and require porking excludivity rights and that violating that egregious agreement is to be understood as "cheating" and that jt "destroys your life" are THE PROBLEM. Big capital P PROBLEM and please all of you duck off into the Sun already you medieval, knuckle-dragging, fairy tale believing, immature, uptight, toxic, purita-totalitarian, well poisonning, abscess-filled, fun preventers and your ball breaking accomplices!
- That's a lot of mouth diarrhea to say you're a piece of shit who doesn't respect your partners wishes for monogamy.
- "Cheating" isn't just violating "porking exclusivity rights", it's breaking whatever the commitments and promises you have made to others within that relationship.
  I agree completely that the institutions of marriage and default of hard monogamy are a "Big capital P PROBLEM", but only because it prevents thinking and talking about what those commitments should be between the individuals within those relationships. Which inevitably ends up causing harm because it allows for the incredibly immature stance of "all relationships should be {like this}" without considering the wants and needs of those involved.
  The problem with the couple above is that they are clearly, and publicly, being caught in the act of breaking the terms of some such personal agreement, however unspoken, and that makes one or both of them a lying, two face, cowardly, immature, piece of shit regardless of any overarching discussion about monogamy, but what else should you expect from a CEO?
  The key takeaway is that your message will not land with anyone and will be counterproductive because you are conflating being a dishonest douchenozzle with general non-monogamy and people will resent you and your underlying message, however valid, because of it.
- Tell me you're a psychopath without telling me you're a psychopath.
- Is this English?
What's wrong with that? Of course they will side with their friends. If my friend is scheming and shares with me, I'm in! Being partners in crime is such a strong bonding experience.
- People who help others cheat are shitty people
- So, you'd help your friend cheat on their partner and still feel comfortable trusting them?
- Being partner in crime is a bonding experience if you do something that is morally right against a superior enemy. Not a group of guys ganging up on a women.
- Nah. Better to just cut untrustworthy people from your life.
- Not if the friend is wrong. If they're really wrong then, I'll try to talk them out of it. If they're really really wrong, then I'll stop being their friend.
  I don't like this kind of in-group/out-group clannish mentality -- that "right" is whatever the in-group decides, with no greater thought to what's like actually the best thing for everyone, whether they're in the group or not.
- I hope that's sarcasm but I'm not sure.

Can someone explain why this is a big deal? Yeah, they cheat but did they do something before that makes it especially heinous?

It’s not a big deal, just a fun story that blew up. Guy pops up on Jumbotron, looks horrified cause he knew he was cheating. Lead singer even comments on the fact that they’re having an affair. Turns out he was a CEO and that was his ~~secretary~~ head of HR (tail as old as time). Internet loves it.
Edit: the video if you haven’t seen it. Their reaction really was wild.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xL8gdhw4q5I
Edit 2: HR boss, not secretary.
- It's not his secretary, she's his chief of human resources. It's essentially her entire job to prevent these kinds of relationships. there are likely legal ramifications and the company is gonna take a hit regardless.
  But that's not the issue so much as the fact that the CEO then turns to social media to give the most vague apology ever and then starts attacking the general public because a "private moment became public without my consent". He literally brought his side piece to a public event with cameras broadcasting across the nation and blames everyone else that he got caught.
  It's honestly pretty scandalous on it's own, but his reaction is what makes it so delicious.
- Turns out he was a CEO and that was his secretary (tail as old as time).
  The infidelity is one thing but no need to insult her over her older age. /s
- Turns out he was a CEO and that was his secretary (tail as old as time
  No it wasn't. She's the CPO, Chief People Officer. Basically head of HR. Where did you get the idea she was a secretary?
- Guy pops up on Jumbotron, looks horrified cause he knew he was cheating
  Hate when that happens. 😓
CEO cheats with his human resources chief and blames the general public for it. That HR chief has likely fired people for similar relationships within the company. Says the public is at fault for violating his privacy at a public event. Everyone is pissed for some reason or another.
Could have just cheated with anyone else and it would have been a personal matter, but the situation and his reaction have been pretty bad.
- I just hate how her and her friends just laugh. Like it’s a big joke that she’s a ho, sleeping with a married man and destroying/humiliating his wife.
It's not a big deal, but it is funny how it happened. Never heard of any of these people or the company before, so I have nothing invested in this.

Hmm.

Does she have some decent guns or is it just the muscle being pushed up by the arm underneath?

Look at the shoulders. She's jacked.
There's some middle-age mommy fat in there too.

Well, the CEO will need a big raise soon.

Shuffled off to another company to make it fail, too.

That guy looks like he just had a rush of blood to the head

That's usually what causes affairs, yes.
We've been living life inside a bubble, We've been living a lie inside a bubble.

As cold as the bottom of the North Atlantic.

4°?
- Not sure, let me ask the folks who... oh, nevermind.

Monogamy is for selfish and extremely insecure people that never learned how to be honest about life or even to their partner? Opinion?

Monogamy is a preference on a spectrum, and if you aren't into it, then that's fine. But dont throw shade on the most commonly practised form of relationship like you are somehow above it. It just makes you look pretentious and honestly a little bit sad.
Um, I don't think this is about monogamy versus polyamory. This is about not abusing your position in a company to date coworkers.
Looks like someone is playing mental gymnastics to justify cheating...

Old people pretending sex is still so fun at that age it's worth losing everything over will never not be funny to me.

Aside from the fact that plenty of people still have sex as they get older, it doesn’t exactly look like they’re just having a random physical affair, does it?
- I'm sure they do, but it's not the same anymore.
Is sex so fun when your in your 20s that it's okay for a CEO to fuck their VPs? What?
- ...huh?
Eh, sex is as fun as you make it. If you vibe with the other person it's usually a better time. I think these two just have a connection they have been missing out on with their current partners. Also marriage is a scam anyways. If you really want to commit to someone, you shouldn't need the threat of financial ruin to keep that promise.
- To me, sex is like music and parties: definitely for the youth.