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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…”.
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
Esperanto?
Sucks that the company is named Astronomer. It’s not even space based.
Such a stupid name for a company.
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.
Lol, only one I feel bad for was the kid. I heard he didn’t even want to go.
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.
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.
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
CEOsdata.
Well, the CEO will need a big raise soon.
Shuffled off to another company to make it fail, too.
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 😂
Why do we care about this?
Is anyone involved in this, someone i should know?
Because it’s brainrot, notice the focus is on the CEO & not on the lady (as in equal focus)
Because it’s funny as shit.
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
Technically they made four.
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
For me the video plays if I just close the login prompt.
Ah so it does, didn’t even notice that X all detached from the login prompt like that.
You can force youtube shorts to be displayed as a normal video by replacing everything up to the last slash with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vSo in this case it’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL8gdhw4q5I
Edit: For some reason Lemmy won’t let me put an equals sign at the end of the code block. Weird. But you’ll figure it out.
Top comment on that video:
Coldplay hasn’t made a single in years but today they made two.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Nicely done.
Ooo, I love learning little website tricks like this and the .com. trick on the NYT
Utube makes me log in to view anything if I have my vpn on.
I can see the instagram version with yt-dlp
Great solution, very easy to use /s
Yeah, it’s their fault that Meta wants you to create/login to an account. /s
I didn’t say that, it’s just that recommending a CLI tool just to view a single insta video strikes me as ridiculous.
Especially since there are a bunch of websites that will let you browse insta anonymously.
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.
if they had never decided to have an affair
Yeah, but that’s too difficult. Just ask my wife.
Because the picture is a future meme template
It’s ragebait for people who think porking rights should be exclusive by default. And by that I mean nasty horrible idiots. Abolish marriage!
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.
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.
Even married, you can have an honest discussion with your spouse about seeing other people (preferably before you get married), then just tell them you’re going to see Coleplay with your work girlfriend. Like it’s not illegal, and it’s not even wrong unless you make it wrong by being a shady little shit about it.
Just like fuckin… talk to each other about your feelings. God.
I love how you’re being downvoted for stating the most obvious solution. TIL certain lemmings don’t believe in healthy communication.
My besties have been in an open relationship for years and it works because of communication, trust, and trying to deserve said trust.
No, I want it abolished as a social expectation of the “default” situation.
No one forces a marriage to be monogamous…
Put it along with rest of crap in the “you are not techncially required” pile
There’s no technicality about it. The people that get married are the ones who determine the exclusivity of the marriage.
Like, it’s even dumber than that because if you didn’t have marriage, you’d still have people in exclusive relationships, so wtf are you complaining about?
I understand how shitty conservative social norms are to those repressed by them, but this usage of marriage as an example is… rather ridiculous.
The problem isn’t the lack of monogamy, it’s the violation of your partner(‘)(s)(’) trust.
I wanted to ask if you’re ok there but then I saw lemmy.ml and everything made sense all of a sudden.
that’s brain rot thinking, you know that’s just the default and instance and therefore cannot mean anything that you think it does This is the kind of generalization behind a lot of evil in the world
It’s an echochamber with all dissent being suppressed. The way you write shows you’re deeply stuck in it.
I just expressed a maximally dissenting opinion on marriage and yet, the message still stands … Who are those dissenters that you imagine are getting suppressed on whatever that server is?
But I"m not “there” to me the local tab is meaningless, I don’t even know on what server we are having this discussion besides “the lemmiverse” So stop it with the digital provincialism !
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?
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.
Oh fuck, not not the camera… fuck fuck fuck
Monogamy is for selfish and extremely insecure people that never learned how to be honest about life or even to their partner? Opinion?
Looks like someone is playing mental gymnastics to justify cheating…
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.
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).
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”.
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.
It is more so that the singer’s response to their reaction was to say she was shy or having an affair and it turned out to be the latter. That would be funny no matter who they were .
Him being a ceo was the cherry on top.
I dunno’, the chain of exacerbations is pretty hilarious. Even better it’s happening to a class of people that deserve zero respect.
Well, yeah, I can see why people are amused. I personally just don’t care all that much because they’re not exactly important, is all :)
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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Old people pretending sex is still so fun at that age it’s worth losing everything over will never not be funny to me.
Is sex so fun when your in your 20s that it’s okay for a CEO to fuck their VPs? What?
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.
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.
So, at what age do you intend to stop having sex, and even stop listening to music?
So how do you feel about consummating a marriage?
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!”
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
I mean theyre both married. Not sure why you’re focusing on just the one piece of shit.
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.
If my boss came on to me, I’m still not betraying my wife. I’ll definitely collect evidence for a law suit though.
When I last read the story he was confirmed to be married but nobody knew anything about her. That’s why
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
And? They aren’t necessarily friends
No sir, just because I was deeply involved in their private life and invited to an expensive event during my free time by and with them doesn’t mean we’re “friends”. I barely know them!
The owners of my last company took us to a baseball game in an executive suite. Me attending the game did not in any way, shape, or form mean that I condone anything they do in their personal life.
Did those owners also bring their secret potentially marriage destroying affairs to those official events?
Is that relevant to whether or not attending constitutes condoning it?
Yeah, like Andrea Manafort said, they just keep showing up and eating the lobster
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.
like no wonder so many married people are unhappy, even people I know personnally think this “sucks but is convenient” wow, that ducking blow
That’s weird, you must be meeting drastically different people than me because most of my social circles are happy in their relationships.
I couldn’t phrase it that constructively while also just “letting it out” I"m not trying to convince anyone just finding why I am so irked/annoyed at people calling the guy’s main being “their life destroyed” by a fucking hug, as if they knew anything about their relationship, they’re just assumed of course in their worldview that’s “being destroyed”, like wow, I don’t want anything to do with any of that crap worldview !
If it was just a fucking hug or just this photo then I’d 100% agree with you, but watch the video that has been linked in this thread, they’re — not subtle. It’s such a grossly over the top “hand in the cookie jar” type moment.
Also you make a good point about the “the guy’s main being “their life destroyed”” being an absolute shit worldview. I get sometimes just needing to vent, but you do understand the consequences and harms of this being your method of release right?
Tell me you’re a psychopath without telling me you’re a psychopath.
Is this English?
barely.
It’s art.
I don’t agree with it, but it’s beautifully put.
well the other guy said it’s
mouth diarrhea
so 🤷, I guess … I shouldn’t assume the meanest comment is right eh
It is hotly debated, but poop does get displayed as art from time to time.
lemmy shitposts comment section is so erudite !
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
You’re not wrong, but a lot of folks are better friends than they are good people.
Yeah those people can take a while to sniff out. It’s difficult when someone is kind and generous with you, maybe even protective, but they lack empathy towards people who they consider outside of their very small kindness bubble.
Actually reminds me of this old article (checks date, wow, really old). Kind of related to Dunbar’s number. It’s pretty intuitive, but still some good reading.
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.
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.
Woman. A woman. Women is plural.
Nah. Better to just cut untrustworthy people from your life.
I hope that’s sarcasm but I’m not sure.
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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
secretaryhead 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.
I mean do CEOs ever actually take responsibility? Between the golden parachutes and increased salaries no matter how the company is doing, no one should be surprised by this abominations behaviour.
It’s a startup. He doesn’t get a golden parachute
Bet you he’s still pocketing enough money to effectively get one regardless. Just because it won’t be millions upon millions of dollars doesn’t magically make lesser pay gaps than fortune 500 execs acceptable.
Right, I got that wrong. Scandalous makes it sound like it’s more import than it is. Most people sharing these memes had no idea this company existed and are not even thinking about legal ramifications.
Their reaction in the video is priceless. Lead singer commenting is hilarious. All the other details is the cherry on top.
I’m totally OOTL on this. Saw the video linked here and was trying to find the CEOs statement but what keeps coming up is the company is now saying that his response was “fake” 🙄🙄
I can’t find what the origin of the “fake” statement was though. This Mirror article(yeah; I know) just says it “emerged online”.
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?
What else would a woman be doing in the C-suite?
(Huge /s)
Some of those women secretaries have both MBAs and JDs and are running the business while the c suite farts around all day.
The person who takes the minutes of the meetings controls the direction of the organization.
I was typing from memory and got it wrong.
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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
Damn, I’m just dumb.
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.
On the one hand its dumb that people only give a shit about the CEOs wife given the HR lady is married too.
On the other hand, maybe its for the best at least one of the spouses is getting to fly under the radar.
How are they just her friends? From reports they’re all employees of the same company. Both he and her are to blame, he made the decision to sleep with his employee knowing he was married, and she made the decision to sleep with her boss knowing she was married, they’re both shitty people.
She’s married too
Thanks, wasn’t aware, comment edited
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.
