Serious question — what’s the point of keeping husband-and-wife combos in the same department or even the same company? It always turns messy. Conflicts of interest, favouritism, gossip, and when it goes sour (and it usually does), everyone else has to pick up the fallout.
Plenty of qualified people out there looking for a chance, but instead we’ve got couples playing house on the company dime. Is it really worth the drama?
I never really understood why there are people that are jealous of a family that has two good incomes. It is as if the couple is taking away the income from another family. We can't allow that to happen. Guess what, life isn't always fair. Kudos to the couples that pursue their professional jobs and ignore the green envy that resentful people have.
@ef the downvoting is hilarious! Those of us who have participated in PDCs know preference is always given first to married couples esp expats.
It’s amazing. Both of us collecting a great paycheck and bonus annually, for years and years. Oh and ps, we made it through rd 1.
@eg 🤮🤢🤮
It's completely obvious that this board has a lot of incels who are extremely jealous of those with attractive, smart and talented spouses who are highly compensated. Worry about yourselves and your own career and what you need to do to advance it. You're welcome.
I have found that one is HiPot and the other not. They don't want to upset the apple cart so a job is always made for the other spouse.
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I like the husband / wife teams that have different last names, so you cannot tell they are related unless you have the Rosetta Stone or a Quiji board from previous org charts. Someone said they are not in the same BU or department but that is not true, there are many of them that are in the same department or more humorously the ones that are sc--wing a subordinate.
@c2 Couples in technical fields with actual degrees and certifications? Fine — at least the company’s getting real skills out of it. But when it’s the non-technical ones, all you usually see is gossip, power games, and lies. No substance, no qualifications — just stories spun to keep themselves relevant. By the way you ran your script wrong and down voted your own post and then had to upvote it. Nice one.
Absolutely spot on. Conflict of interest all fu---n day long. Way too many of these corrupt conjugal work couples ruining the work culture, carefully carving out their own little fiefdom. I personally know two such pairs, and I'm just one guy. Imagine how many of these pair exist ruining the company inside out!
This is not right. What about Husband-Husband combos? They are just as important. MW and Cramer? Thats a combo I would like to see but dont know if it will happen!
Discrimination is Discrimination. Just like quotas are. In most cases DINKs are the most talented, skilled, well-trained, hard working, aggressive and ambitious of any prospects that employers can find. Also sometimes those with kids. In general, they are never placed in the same department or BU based on company practices and policy. That is also industry standard. But do go on about fragile egos, false tales of corruption, politics, fantastical conspiracy theories, etc. It's pathetic and laughable but completely amusing considering the source (this site).
@bx Nobody’s talking about “discrimination,” nice try twisting it. The issue is the gossip, the conflicts of interest, and the way husband–wife combos use their positions to protect themselves and settle scores. That’s not “family values,” that’s corruption. If you had any integrity, you’d admit it instead of hiding behind victim talk.
So you're saying we should discriminate based on family status?
@az it's just one "leader" downvoting with a scripy in an attempt to protect his fragile ego.
That’s a lot of downvoting for a post that says opportunities should be decided based on merit rather than nepotism… Do you hear yourselves? 😬
@OP Exactly this. Once you’ve got husband-and-wife combos in the mix, it stops being about performance and turns into politics. You see them running little gossip networks, building alliances, and taking down whoever doesn’t fall in line.
Honestly, if one of them secures a job, the other should be made redundant. That’s the only way to cut out the conflict of interest and stop this soap opera from draining the company.
The thing that gets me is how our compliance training makes a big deal about avoiding even the appearance of conflict of interest. But somehow that does not apply to relatives internally. I’m just surprised it hasn’t come up in more lawsuits following selection events.