For as long as I remember it was always advised that people in a management or executive role should always avoid getting into a relationship with the people who work under them as it can create of conflicts of interest and potential harassment claims that may be directly tied to how a person is treated. With that, I was reading about this lawsuit between WWE founder Vince McMahon and a women named Janel Grant whom he had a relationship with. She was working for him and as you can imagine she was getting a lot of benefits for being with a billionaire. As time went on, apparently the relationship broke and he stopped gifting her items. Then came a lawsuit from Janel Grant claiming she was fundamentally sexually abased by Vince McMahon.
As you can imagine, so many people wanted to immediately dissociate with him after and many people believed he was a monster. But as it turns out the case seemed to have been dismissed recently as part of the proof that was used was apparently Janel Grant’s own messages to Vince McMahon where she seemed to constantly emphasized how she wanted to be with him on top of a list of all the things she gave her. That then turned the tables for people to say she was making the whole thing up as it was consensual.
But it shows you how bad it can get for a business when you have people working together and at the same time pursuing a relationship. Granted there are stories of people who meet at the workplace and actually get married while living happily forever. But I usually hear more horror stories like these when things go bad. Would you risk it or wait until one or the other quits?