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Workplace relationships - re Coldplay

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changedwoman123 · 19/07/2025 23:26

I’m sure this is rife and they were just very unlucky! One of my managers lives with a colleague through the week and goes home to his wife at the weekend. Any more?

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pourmeadrinkpls · 22/07/2025 23:10

spottydinosaur · 22/07/2025 22:12

A friend of mine recently attended the wedding of a colleague & it was common knowledge that she was having an affair with someone from the office who also attended her wedding! I wondered how many people sat through that wedding knowing the bride was having an affair. Personally I wouldn’t have attended the wedding.

The bride was still having an affair with someone that was at her wedding?

NigelPonsonbySmallpiece · 22/07/2025 23:18

pourmeadrinkpls · 22/07/2025 23:10

The bride was still having an affair with someone that was at her wedding?

I know someone who did this. She got married and invited her male work colleague who she was shagging to her wedding. So he came (with his partner) and stood and watched the bride marry someone else. Think the affair fizzled out after their wedding. Nowt as strange as folk.

pourmeadrinkpls · 22/07/2025 23:20

NigelPonsonbySmallpiece · 22/07/2025 23:18

I know someone who did this. She got married and invited her male work colleague who she was shagging to her wedding. So he came (with his partner) and stood and watched the bride marry someone else. Think the affair fizzled out after their wedding. Nowt as strange as folk.

Wow that's great gossip! 😁 Poor groom!

TyneFilth · 23/07/2025 08:21

mamagogo1 · 22/07/2025 22:15

Didn’t an admiral just get sacked for having a relationship with his junior colleague? They take it pretty seriously these days

Not only sacked (2 months before he was due to retire) but he had his rank stripped from him. Usually the Navy (and other services above a certain rank) are entitled to call themselves Admiral, Colonel, etc when retired. To have his rank stripped involved a notice in the London Gazette (like the announcements of royal appointments etc) and so it was extremely public to those sorts of circles. He still gets his pension mind, so he can cry into that if his wife doesn't walk off with half of it.

330ml · 23/07/2025 08:37

Aspanielstolemysanity · 22/07/2025 21:34

It's highly unlikely their work was unaffected by it

It's pretty standard in contracts to have to disclose any relationship of this nature.

It's really damaging to governance if two such key figures are having an affair

Yes, I’m married to a colleague and we have to declare our relationship every year.

It doesn’t affect our work and most people don’t realise we are a couple.

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