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A former Bay Area tech CEO was fired earlier this year after allegedly enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing his assistant. He claims the pair had a consensual relationship that people would "celebrate" if it were fictitious.

Former Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng denied the allegations levied against him and the billion-dollar company he co-founded that were made by a former employee in court Thursday.

"The shocking and vile claims in the lawsuit are categorically false, and I reject allegations that I subjected someone to any form of abuse during my tenure as CEO or at any other time of my life,” Lanng told The Messenger.

In the complaint, an unidentified woman alleged that Lanng sent her into “a dark abyss of unwanted sexual horror," according to The Mercury News.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can not have sex with your employee or employer. The power dynamic ensures it can never be totally equal and there will always be some duress. If someone holds the power over your finances including your health insurance, saying No is never that simple.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never thought of it that way. I always thought of it as "don't shit where you eat" because I ain't at work to make friends. I'm here to get shit done.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

It's both, really. After some misadventures in my youth, I have refused to engage romantically with anyone in an organization I'm employed by. "Don't shit where you eat." As I have moved up to supervise others, it goes doubly so for people within my chain of command. That would be highly unethical.

Essentially, one is practical advice and the other is a matter of ethics. If you follow the first, the ethics are easy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You never had to sit through a sexual harassment training where they explain quid pro quo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Numerous times, and I may have even paid attention once or twice. I generally don't do anything involving harassment because its wrong and immoral, because having relations with coworkers is not what I consider morally acceptable due to the risks to anyone involved in such an affair and in general, against my own moral judgement.

And I have SEEN harassment in the workplace.

[–] Akisamb 7 points 1 year ago

I think it's healthy to have clear boundaries with coworkers, they are not the same things as friends.

That said I spend 41 hours a week working, no way I'm not going to socialise with my coworkers. If I don't make any friends after several years of working at a place I feel I have done something wrong.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They were dating before he hired her, also mentions that hiring her was a mistake

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She says they were never dating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I must have missed that in the article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It wasn't in this article. It is here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Honestly best take. There's a lot to this story I'm sure and I think it needs to be discovered in a court.

I'm hopeful it's a truly fair court case as everyone has their right to their day in court.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's never that simple, sure. Which means it isn't as simple as saying categorically "you can not".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

So, it IS that simple? 🤦

No, it isn't. You just love pretending to have any nuance, when you're a hard core conservative.