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No assortative mating for you!

The head of oil giant BP has resigned as chief executive amid a review of his personal relationships with colleagues.

In a shock late evening announcement, the firm said Bernard Looney, who had led the company since 2020, was stepping down with immediate effect.

BP said it had recently started an investigation into alleged relationships Mr Looney had with colleagues, the second in two years.

Slightly odd, societally. Exactly as the modal method of meeting a mate becomes work, not family, work starts to insist upon no mate meeting at work.

9 thoughts on “No assortative mating for you!”

  1. Meeting a mate at work is fine as long as there is not a reporting line from one to the other. If there is a reporting relationship, having a sexual one too is a recipe for disaster. Expect to get sued by all the employees who claim they weren’t promoted because they didn’t have sex with the boss.

  2. I met my wife when she was my (19-year-old) secretary/runner, on her gap year before university. Worked out marvellously.

    A mate of mine – a South African vet – cannot talk to women at all, though they all love him. (Perhaps that’s why.) His method for snaring women is (or was) to sit next to them and put his hand on their thigh under the table. Worked very well with random women in pubs, but also at work with the veterinary nurses, and finally with his now wife, who was also an employee (a vet, he’s the senior partner.)

    Of course, putting my tinfoil hat on, *they* don’t want us reproducing, and banning worker-boss fraternisation is a very good way to inhibit that amongst those of us who haven’t yet been sterilised by the jabs and all the other shit in the water etc these days.

  3. Why do I get the feeling that this isn’t the whole story, and that the relationship thing has been weaponised to someone else’s advantage?

  4. @rhoda – the original complaint against him and then the follow-up revealing he hadn’t been entirely honest came from anonymous tips.

    Hell hath no fury etc…

  5. @ rhoda klapp
    Possibly because no-one complained about it at the time, nor even when he became CEO, years after the relationships finished.
    For which reason I disagree with MC’s conclusion [no 1 partner would surely have known about no 2 partner even if (unlikely) she didn’t know who no 2 was]

  6. If I’d relief on work as a venue to meet a wife, is still be single.
    In my department there are approximately 0 women.
    Never have been.
    And on our client site where I’m based there are hilariously few women.
    In the near twelve years I’ve worked there, I’ve spoken to women in my age bracket approximately three times.
    There just aren’t that many women in maintenance or on production lines…

  7. “There just aren’t that many women in maintenance or on production lines…”

    Of course there aren’t.

    Dirty dangerous jobs where you don’t get to catch up on the gossip – what’s the point?

  8. Bloke in North Dorset

    “There just aren’t that many women in maintenance or on production lines…”

    Of course there aren’t.

    Dirty dangerous jobs where you don’t get to catch up on the gossip – what’s the point?

    But they still demand equal pay on some made up ground that their job is of equal value.

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