Comment by bagacrap

> There might be a story here about the hypocrisy of a CEO and an HR officer having an in-house affair that might get lesser-ranking employees fired.

Uh, what? They did get fired. It doesn't matter what level of the company you occupy, it's going to be against company policy to have a relationship with another employee over whom you have any degree of control (i.e. for a CEO, literally anyone).

They will probably both have a hard time getting another job since they both breached a very core workplace policy. Their reaction was not even shame so much as a (somewhat misguided) attempt at self-preservation.