How embarrassing for that couple… Or should I say that non-couple? Anyway, I’m sure you’ve all seen the multitude of people saying how embarrassing it would be to be caught on camera at a Coldplay concert…
Personally I have no problem with heterosexual people doing whatever in the privacy of their own homes but one should be careful not to do it in public and give teenagers the realisation that if people who are that old are still having affairs then maybe their parents aren’t too old to so. Even worse, the teenagers may be forced to acknowledge the moaning they heard from their parents’ room may not have been caused by one of them suffering from cramp.
Whatever, I did think that there was a significant danger for a boss to be… ah, er, is “dating” the right term? Anyway, there’s a danger for a boss and the HR person to be having the sort of relationship that causes them to duck for cover when the camera seeks them out…
I just had this flashback to when I was a child of nine or ten and we were staying in a motel. I went to the car and returned to open the door to the room next to ours by mistake. A couple were either getting dressed or undressed. I apologised and quickly withdrew. At the time I thought that it was rather early to be going to bed and it was years later that I understood that my intrusion may have given them a bigger shock than I get when I find myself agreeing with something Barnaby Joyce said. I wonder if my timing had been a little later whether I’d have had a lot more questions than: “Why are they going to bed at 4.47pm?”
But back to the dangers of the HR person and the boss. While I make no aspersions about the specific people involved in putting the human back into HR, I do wonder how it might play out in some companies.
Knock, knock.
HR: Come in.
Joanne: Hi, I just wondered if I could ask your advice.
HR: Certainly.
Joanne: Well, I’m new here and I don’t want to raise a fuss while I’m still on probation, but someone said something that made me uncomfortable.
HR: What was it?
Joanne: I mean, I may have been reading too much into it but the CEO said that he had an extra ticket to a concert and he wondered if I’d like to go with him.
HR: HE DID WHAT?
Joanne: Look, like I said it may have just been a friendly gesture. He said that his wife had to pull out and…
HR: The bastard! The absolute bastard.
Joanne: So you don’t think I’m reading too much into…
HR: Definitely not. I’ll kill the fucker!
Joanne: I was thinking more like some sort of formal…
HR: I’ll rip his balls off!
Joanne: I just didn’t want to seem like a troublemaker…
HR: No, no, thanks for telling me. You just leave it with me.
Joanne: Thanks, it’s clear you take your job seriously and I’m sorry to have caused any extra work.
HR: No, trust me, it’ll be a pleasure to deal with this.
Joanne: Ok, I’ll leave it with you then.
But back to the Coldplay Couple. I can’t help but wonder if “Viva La Vida” lyrics will have even more poignancy for them now:
“I used to rule the worldSeas would rise when I gave the wordNow in the morning, I sleep aloneSweep the streets I used to own…”
Ah well, c’est la vie!
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If they hadn’t been caught out by KissCam, something like this dialogue would probably have eventuated, because blokes like that are never satisfied with just one side piece.