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CEO: Who are they going to complain to? HR?!
Kristin Cabot, the firm's chief people officer.
That’s not a good look 😬
She's switching to Public Affairs.
Standard HR. Not a profession that’s renowned for moral and ethical integrity.
Well she is working with people. Two of them but one didn't know about the other.
*didn’t
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I get being embarrassed but resignation seems like an overreaction. Coldplay isn't that bad.
Hey other tech CEOs, when you take your mistress to a concert where there's a crowd camera, have a chat ahead of time about how to play it cool. Bet nobody would have noticed if they'd just smiled and been boring for a second until the operator moved on. That'll be $50,000 please.
Inb4 his ex wife files for alimony+child support, and he tries to claim no income.
my understanding is the wife already changed her last name on facebook, so divorce filing is pretty much a given. He is definitely claiming no salary income, but she's gonna grab him by the assets
Don’t these C-level guys usually get a golden parachute? He "tendered his resignation", but probably still got some severance. Board could force him out but probably triggers some other vesting/equity clause. So having him "resign" but give him golden parachute.
Golden parachutes usually don't involve inter-company affairs. He's going to be lucky if the board doesn't sue him for defamation of the company name essentially.
Per Axios report [1], Andy Byron appears to have negotiated some sort of exit package.
The company officially issued a statement Friday more than 24 hours after the story exploded, due in part to Byron's slow resignation and exit package negotiations, another source told Axios.
These fuckers always get their 🧀 no matter what happens. Better to pay them off rather than stall it in court and risk attracting more attention.
[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/coldplay-kiss-cam-astronomer
Yeah, that's fair. That sucks, I guess they took the easy path.
Well, fuck this.
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Don't forget about how he blames the Democrats for getting 'canceled' and gets a speaking role at the next Republican Convention.
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Seems like if they hadn't reacted to their images on the screen, this whole thing would have gone unnoticed.
I've seen this response a ton and I think that's exactly correct, but I can't imagine the anxiety in the hours, day and weeks after. Just waiting and wondering if anyone recognised you, if anyone had a recording/proof. Then after a few months under the radar I might not be a complete train wreck.
But then what if Coldplay puts out a Netflix special or something, then I'd have to wait and wait until it came out and then watch it and see if that moment makes it into the recording... And if it does? Now I'm just waiting for some random friend of a friend to watch it and go "hang on..."
I think I'd rather this timeline, if I was that idot.
Probably why I'd never cheat on my partner, especially at a huge public gathering, when the person I'm cheating with is an employee and I'm the fucking CEO and could lose my job over it.
Thankfully this man will certainly continue to fail up, and as soon as this news quiets down he'll get hired by some other goon just like him to some other lucrative job where you just have to be an asshole a few times a week and otherwise the money will roll right in.
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The reactions I’ve seen to this event make me cringe more than the event.
Yeah same for real though, are people this bored??
I think it's less boredom and more more "hey a story that's not about the world being on fire."
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I was interviewing with this company 💀. Withdrew my application/interview last week because of this.
Didn’t leave a reason. Just emailed recruiter, "I am no longer interested".
Also, they have like 6-7 interviews with various people in company.
These multiple rounds of interviews to get a job are fucking ridiculous. They chose the pope in two fucking days, you do not need a week’s worth of interviews to know if I’m worth giving a paycheck.
To be fair, it has occasionally taken a very long time to choose the next Pope, which is how they ended up with the tradition of locking the cardinals up together and not letting them out until they'd made a decision in the first place.
tradition of locking the cardinals up
Seems like a good idea to implement all the time.
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Really? How would this have impacted you as an employee? And how do you know the other companies are different?
CEO having an affair with head of HR... The flag for rampant violation of company policy from above, nepotism, mix of private and professional life... really cant get more red unless the head of HR is also his daughter.
A ceo that's fucking his employees is probally fucking his employees.
It also makes working for the company a punch line on your resume.
"Ohh, you worked for Astronomy? Wasn't that the company where the CEO got cuaght fucking around at a Coldplay concert?"
The above may be a good or bad ice breaker at future interviews, but its still something you may have to deal with.
There's an expression "fish rots from the head down", meaning when the leadership of an organization is bad, the whole thing starts to stink. In this case, the CEO was having an affair with the head of HR, and was so unsubtle about it that he was caught like this at a public event. So, either the rest of the execs are completely unaware of what's happening around them, which isn't good. Or, they're aware and did nothing about it, which is also bad.
Sure, this may be happening at plenty of other companies, but those CEOs have at least managed to avoid getting caught. Why work for the one company you know is troubled like this?
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Pity. I hear they have an opening for CEO, with perks.
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Just couldn't handle the shame of being caught attending a Coldplay gig
I think the best joke I've seen about this so far has been
"Coldplay hasn't put out a single in years, but in one night they made 2"
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…meanwhile. Elon Musk out here handing out vials of cum at parties. What a cool guy.
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This story is being promoted in the media to distract from trump being a child rapist
Lmao. I'd seen the photo floating around, but didn't know the story behind it
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If they had just made out like everyone else does, nobody would have cared who they were. It wouldn't have gone viral. Wife still might have found out about it, but I don't think that would have changed much.
I think we as a society need to get over compulsory monogamy. It clearly doesn't work for everybody. Why must two consenting adults refrain from expressing mutual love for one another?
Don't get me wrong, cheating is unethical and monogamy is still valid for those who want it. But the idea that monogamy is the most pure form of love is a social construct that has no basis in reality.
If you don't want to be monogamous don't get married. It's an easy solution.
Why would marriage be an issue? It's convenient for purposes of healthcare coverage, hospital visitation rights, guarantees that without a will stating otherwise your spouse makes all decisions regarding the disposal of your corpse, and they automatically inherit any wealth you have, and if you have military benefits in many cases marriage is required to transfer those, or have them automatically transfer on death.
I'm not monogamous, neither is my spouse, but we are married because of all the above reasons. Marriage isn't about love and monogamy it's about financial and death planning
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Does Coldplay cover any Queen songs? "We will, we will, doxx you!"
Really important news guys
it's nice to have fun once in awhile
Big mistake. You always play it cool. If the police catch you getting your dick sucked, just play it cool. They won’t suspect a thing.
Sounds like both of them might be shitty people. Which is standard fair in this lovely world of ours. However one of them is a CEO - and that opens the door for some proper shadenfreude.
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