There was still so much news about that Jensen Huang scandal where he apparently admitted to having an affair and the assumption is it was with a Chinese spy allegedly. And some of the topics were so interesting where some people were literally saying how because of this, this is why they choose their CEOs to be of a certain, let’s just say, things like a sexual orientation, having some type of religious background, because it’s less likely they will actually fall for certain types of people. For example, the over-exaggerated example was if you have, let’s just say, a CEO that is gay, then a woman, for example, won’t actually entice the male if that’s the person that’s in charge.
And it was just kind of weird because obviously that’s really illegal in a lot of places where you can’t hire people just based on something like that, but it makes you wonder whether or not that is a factor many times when people put others in a position of leadership on whether or not they would be tempted with certain things. For example, if people have a background where they’re kind of used to certain types of people, used to avoiding, let’s just say, honeypots per se, then they are more likely to avoid that. Whereas people who are just brand new, don’t have the experience, they’re probably more likely to be enticed or fall for those types of things. But it just sounds like such a crazy thing to even talk about ’cause I don’t see how you can use any of that when it comes to the hiring process because it could be considered as discriminating.
For example, if you actually ask questions like that in order to hire people. I mean, the only thing it comes down to is life experience and usually people’s personal lives isn’t a factor in that regard, unless you’re saying the person’s a known criminal with a record, then that’s a little different in terms of someone’s quote personal life and it affecting their work. But in cases like these, especially the accusations of spies, honeypots, and so forth, I think that’s just one of the things that comes with the territory.