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CNN exec Zucker’s ouster shows peril of hiding work romance
The Associated Press ^ | February 6, 2022 | By MAE ANDERSON

Posted on 02/06/2022 8:11:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

NEW YORK (AP) — For all the potential peril of a workplace romance, the most common source of trouble, experts say, is allowing it to remain a secret.

A case in point was this week’s abrupt ouster of longtime CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker, who said he was ’’wrong” in not being upfront with the network about a consensual relationship he was having with another executive.

Zucker is hardly alone in finding love at the office. About a third of U.S. workers say they are in a workplace relationship or have been in one — and the trend has been on the rise since the start of the pandemic, according to trade association Society for Human Resource Management.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; apepee; associatedpravda; asspress; cnn; fakenews; humanresources; jeffzucker; maeanderson; media; ratings; relationships; workplace; zucker
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It wasn’t sex, it was ratings.
1 posted on 02/06/2022 8:11:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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“ Zucker is hardly alone in finding love at the office.”

He didn’t find love. He found a piece of ass.

L


2 posted on 02/06/2022 8:12:30 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seriously, AP?

Ain’t nobody buyin what you sellin!


3 posted on 02/06/2022 8:13:42 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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He didn’t find love. He found a piece of ass.

He found an A*s, has to be, she worked for cuomo and dated zucker.

4 posted on 02/06/2022 8:14:24 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

His Toadie, Chris Wallace, is now stuck on a foundering ship.


5 posted on 02/06/2022 8:19:30 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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Isn’t all sex between men in a position of power over the woman, per feminist party line, actually considered “rape”?

But it’s not ‘rape, rape’ says Whoopi....


6 posted on 02/06/2022 8:23:12 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah sure, it was workplace romance.

More like WOKEPLACE romance, and fake news.


7 posted on 02/06/2022 8:24:18 AM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well,it’s a good thing that The Big Guy taking a shower with his daughter wasn’t a work “romance”...otherwise he’d be in *big* trouble!


8 posted on 02/06/2022 8:25:04 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Zucker had just filed the paperwork about his sex life, he could still be managing the far left misfits.


9 posted on 02/06/2022 8:26:31 AM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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To: Alas Babylon!
AP = Always Propaganda
10 posted on 02/06/2022 8:26:55 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Workplace romance?

11 posted on 02/06/2022 8:28:21 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Word from the beginning was the relationship was widely known around CNN, they weren’t “hiding” anything.


12 posted on 02/06/2022 8:29:09 AM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It wasn’t the relationship, the higher ups knew of it for years. It wasn’t the ratings, CNN’s ratings have been falling for a year more, and as long as the talking heads mollified the progressive mob, CNN was good.
Zucker was fired for intimately advising Governor Cuomo on how best to smear women who accused him of sexual harassment; that was the bridge too far!


13 posted on 02/06/2022 8:29:59 AM PST by ga1948
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Workplace romance is one thing, screwing direct reports that you have promoted to their current job is another thing.

A media that doesn’t question Kamala (the turtle on a fence post) will never understand the difference.


14 posted on 02/06/2022 8:31:25 AM PST by UNGN
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ummm, what’s the corporate POLICY on dating let alone dating a subordinate???


15 posted on 02/06/2022 8:42:51 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Their affair began years before his divorce.


16 posted on 02/06/2022 8:50:33 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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“ummm, what’s the corporate POLICY on dating let alone dating a subordinate???”

What’s the policy of bringing in to the #2 position the mistress you were having an affair with while married?


17 posted on 02/06/2022 8:58:23 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN not finding love at work but Sexual assault victims. The sicko network


18 posted on 02/06/2022 9:01:33 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TexasGator

that would be a hoot to see in writing


19 posted on 02/06/2022 9:10:38 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: TexasGator
I'm in upper management at my place at work. Romantic relationships between managers and subordinates have always been verboten. It's just common sense. You cannot have good morale in an organization where a worker bee is screwing the boss.

Even relationships among equal subordinates must be disclosed. This way, the managers will know to never make one the subordinate of the other. I personally had to make a decision to transfer an employee when I decided to promote the other in the relationship to a management position. Had I not known of the relationship, I could have introduced issues into the workplace.

That's why the disclosure is important.

20 posted on 02/06/2022 9:11:53 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 24 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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