Really? In my experience (and I'm being honest here), his colleagues would be high-fiving him for "bangin' the boss". I apologize for the crudeness, but I really think this would be the case.
> In my experience (and I'm being honest here), his colleagues would be high-fiving him for "bangin' the boss"
May be. But they sure won't be high-fiving him when the boss lets his incompetence slide, and bestows promotions and other benefits upon him(not related to Marissa; general scenario). If all you can see is people high-fiving for "bangin' the boss" you are seeing a very unrealistic and uni-dimensional view of the world.
Larry and Marissa in a relationship isn't something which is being pointed out. Your "high-fiving for banging the boss" is assuming it's related to being in a relationship. It's not. If she got any undue privilege, that's sad and deserves to be mocked. If she didn't, who she is sleeping with is nobody's fucking business.
> I don't think the "male-dominated tech world" would really respect a man for sleeping with the co-founder either.
I won't have a problem with it unless that bestows special privileges.
> I was under the impression that the beneficiaries of nepotism are resented regardless of their sex.
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They are resented, or at least they should be. If Marissa Mayer got away with being incompetent or being an asshole, she should be resented. Now she might be very competent(I have seen references to her papers), but that's no excuse for getting the extra mileage due to being in relationship with the co-founder.
X makes mistakes, but still gets promoted/awarded/recognized
Y makes mistakes, sometimes good work too but is always reprimanded. Never promoted/rewarded/awarded/recognized.
If this happens enough number of times, this smells of a classic case of nepotism. Now imagine if X is a women, Y is a man and the boss is man.
Can you imagine the rumors that would float around in this case?
In my experience, I'm competing with my colleagues, at least by some definition of "competition", and if one of them is under-performing at my expense because of a personal relationship, he's not getting high-fived.
Though at lower-skilled, lower-paid jobs I could see it being different.
