Workplace Romance A No-No at Gates Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 3, 2006 @12:53AM from the prolly-a-bad-idea-almost-anywhere dept.

theodp writes "The past week has brought NY Times coverage of the workplace romance of Gates Foundation co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates, as well as Newsweek coverage of the workplace romance of Gates Foundation CEO Patty Stonesifer and her subordinate, Slate Editor-in-Chief Michael Kinsley. So the Foundation's Conflict of Interest Policy comes off as just a tad hypocritical: 'Additionally, certain types of relationships between co-workers may create impermissible conflicts of interest. For example, a romantic relationship in the workplace may raise perceptions of bias and favoritism.'"

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Yep. An issue by MImeKillEr · 2006-07-03 01:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Unless one of them didn't report directly to the other. Of course, then neither of them would be a subordinate.

Still, its hyprocritical.

While talking about the foundation: Anyone else notice that Warren Buffet is so rich that he hired Bill Gates to spend his money?

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