Posted on 05/17/2021 8:03:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, people familiar with the matter said.
Members of the board tasked with the matter hired a law firm to conduct an investigation in late 2019 after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship over years with Mr. Gates, the people said.
During the probe, some board members decided it was no longer suitable for Mr. Gates to sit as a director at the software company he started and led for decades, the people said. Mr. Gates resigned before the board’s investigation was completed and before the full board could make a formal decision on the matter, another person familiar with the matter said.
“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” a Microsoft spokesman said. “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”
A spokeswoman for Mr. Gates said, “There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably.” She said his “decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter. In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.”
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So, he actually WAS as fugly on the inside as on the outside.
This calls to mind that joke about the man who had a talking dog and wanted a pack of cigarettes, so he gave the mutt a twenty dollar bill and sent him to the store. The guy sits back and waits: fifteen minutes, half an hour, then an hour, and there’s no sign of the dog. Fearing the worst, the guy puts on his coat and walks halfway down the block to find his dog in the middle of the street, doing the dirty with a female Cockapoo. “Spot!” he cries, dismayed, “you’ve never done this before!” To which the mutt replies, “Yeah, but I’ve never had money!”
Yikes, so anyone who has had a romantic episde with a staffer or co-worker over the last 20 years can have the boom dropped on them?
Well, not me, but I’d imagine there are a few out there.
Anyway, what’s the point of having a billion dolars if you can entice some chickie into some nookie?
Why does this surprise anyone? These, ‘Master of the Universe’ types are amoral b-words. Pretty much every. last. one. Male or female.
So, by all means, let’s keep making the obscenely rich wealthier and keep all the pocket-stuffing thieves in Congress for 30+ years! Heck, make the least productive and most smarmy of them ALL (not to mention a mental midget then and now) President while we’re at it!
*ROLLEYES*
No pics please of micro or soft.
Yikes, so anyone who has had a romantic episode with a staffer or co-worker over the last 20 years can have the boom dropped on them?
Well, not me, but I’d imagine there are a few out there.
Anyway, what’s the point of having a billion dolars if you can’t entice some chickie into some nookie?
ROFL
MAO
dogecoin?
fugly
You expanded my vocabulary. LOL
Well, one has to wonder about other “me too” Big Tech Olaguards in hiding with their seedy past.
Is this the woman he had his yearly rendezvous with for decades?
“Is this the woman he had his yearly rendezvous with for decades?”
Different one.
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Brainiac freaks!😲
and his ex-spouse was also an employee
bill should reread the employee handbook
awesome!!...any idea where thats at and what year it happened??
...and so why is he being exposed now, and who is exposing him, and what else remains to be seen.
My guess - getting this out due to a ‘closer’ relationship with Epstein than so far disclosed.
Funny how this stuff starts to emerge from the shadows. Wiener, Weinstein, Cuomo, Gates, etc. All years after the behavior that snagged them had begun.
A part of me wonders if these little tidbits come out of hiding when the person who is targeted has passed their point of usefulness...
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