To think the CEO caught at Coldplay resigning is a bit of a performance

There's nearly always something in the small print if a work contract about not being the company into disrepute by your behavior. I think in the states there's sometimes a clause about not being involved with coworkers or having to declare it etc.

The media should be focusing on more important matters.
Many parts of the world are in crisis and this is making news. 🙄

The company say no other employees were there at the concert. How did the video footage get onto the internet? If I was at the concert I wouldn't be videoing strangers on a big screen.

My ex husband (a very high earner) had an affair with a woman at work. When we split, he was shitting himself that anyone at work would find out about it and lied to his colleagues for years after, saying that we were still together.
Dickhead.
He’d still go out places with her though, as he displayed similar levels of arrogance and smugness over not getting caught.

I can't believe how viral it has become, with all the memes etc, and for that reason I feel bad for them (and their spouses of course)
Gregg Wallace and John Torrode must feel very grateful to them!

When he was “energizing” her, maybe?

He’s the butt of jokes across the world, who would want a CEO like that? Most CEOs know how to keep their sordid double lives a secret.

And he revealed deep stupidity. If he had not hidden like a peeping Tom he would have got away with it.

Many companies will have a policy which warns against behaviour which might bring the ‘company into disrepute’. This would govern behaviour inside and outside of work. My company certainly does. If they’d had an affair and it was a private issue, chances are the company would have given a warning and possibly moved them sideways into roles where there was less direct contact. However their actions have caused the company to become a global laughing stock, headline news and memes on every social media platform. That’s definitely going to fall into ‘bringing the company into disrepute’.

Morality clauses and disrepute...

thats why.

I suppose it also depends on what else the company has now found out. The woman was hired less than a year ago - does the affair predate the hiring? If so, did it start when he met her as part of the hiring process, or before that?

I believe the company has denied that there were any other employees at the Coldplay concert. And have stated categorically that the woman next to her is not the woman the internet says it is.

ETA - I’m not saying that if the affair only started last week, it’s totally fine. I just mean that if they’ve found out he hired his mistress then that makes it more of a problem.

He was CEO, the head of the company and he has been proved publicly and irrefutably to be dishonest.

Why would you choose to deal with a dishonest man ?

Most work places have strict policies in place about relationships at work and for good reason - power imbalances, unfairness of opportunity, not getting work done during work as mind elsewhere, lack of transparency, leaves company open to legal action and/or criticism. Regulated businesses in particular have onerous duties where this kind of thing could cause people to act without best interests of company in mind. Given the obvious seniority of both they absolutely should have known this was unacceptable and likely consequences. It’s right he should resign. I am surprised how many people are ignoring how unprofessional their actions were and don’t see an issue with it.

I find it a bit odd that the focus is all on the man. The woman was also cheating, she has a husband and two kids.

Use of The kiss cam was announced by the lead singer before it started so they took the chance of being shown in it

it does seem an extreme reaction.
he probably earns enough anyway and he didnt look particularly young

Same thing happened in one of my previous jobs, affair uncovered between the CEO and HR manager.

The problem was, people had been going to the HR manager with complaints about the CEO before it all came out. How can HR be impartial in that situation?

It was the (female) HR manager who was forced to resign, CEO stayed on in the end

He's the CEO. He shouldn't be having affairs with any as they're all junior to him. That's what makes it a stackable offence. Two colleagues on the same level would be different but it's hard to imagine how he can continue to lead.

She's also the Head of HR so again someone whose job is to protect the company from this kind of thing is engaging in it.

He's probably signed a contract with a moral turpitude and non fraternization clause. People get fired for far less in the US.

Ah, didn’t realise that. Yes, makes a difference

I feel very uncomfortable about it.
Yes they did wrong but through history many many people have done the same thing. In days gone by this might have been a scandal in the town or the village but now it's the world!

The global humiliation and mockery is awful - you can't even say like we do with celebs that they chose to be in the spotlight and this goes with the territory.

I haven't read beyond the headlines but I was thinking the same, OP. I know of two occasions at my workplace where colleagues have had affairs, families have been broken up, there has been gossip and scandal... And no one had to resign. I guess because it wasn't so public... 🤷🏼‍♀️

This. Like the President many of the US commenters voted for. Get your priorities straight.

I find the "kisscam" idea a bit creepy of Coldplay anyway. Lots of people wouldn't want this kind of attention at an event for good reasons.

If in 2025, people struggle to keep professional boundaries, frankly they are a bit thick and shouldn’t be the CEO of anything.

I like seeing arseholes lose everything, perhaps that makes me a bad person too.
I hate it when people who do bad things get away with it.
They should have thought about their actions at a public event where there were cameras. They probably enjoyed the risky feeling that they might be caught, until they were 😂.