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The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.

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".
No. You're just witnessing the pathetic side of humanity trying to own someone that gets more pussy or dick than them.
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.
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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.
- 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
- "Coldplay hasn’t made a single in years but today they made two." LOL
Because it's funny as shit.
Because the picture is a future meme template

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

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.
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.

Oh fuck, not not the camera.... fuck fuck fuck

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

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.

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.

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 😂

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?

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.

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.

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.
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.

Well, the CEO will need a big raise soon.

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

As cold as the bottom of the North Atlantic.

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

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.

Lustmolch

Unnecessary.

What if they all have an open relationship and are fine with that? (I assume they don't but still asking)

Their reaction after getting caught on camera tells you this isn't the case.
- Honestly if they just didn’t react nobody would have cared.

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.
Edit: die mad
- To me, sex is like music and parties: definitely for the youth.

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...