LA Times Beijing bureau chief quits after sex investigation

Do NOT express romantic interest in your coworkers, under any circumstances, ever!

You're asking for trouble and you'll find it.

Definitely, if you are not very good with the opposite sex, and not confident in your ability to properly determine which behaviors are appropriate, and which ones aren't, you should follow the advice above, and avoid anything altogether.

If you are one of those people that are able to properly determine which behaviors are appropriate, and which ones aren't, carry on, nothing's changed.

Go to a brothol, leave women alone.

You don't dip your pen in the company inkwell.

It has been said many times. Why don't people understand this?

It has been said many times. Why don't people understand this?

Because a lot of people dip a lot of pens in a lot of company ink, and have no more problems than some discomfort around the person for a period of times.

I know I dipped my pen in company ink a lot before marriage, and it never caused any overt issues.

There used to be a lot of social rules put in place to protect women. All of these have been unnecessarily torn down in the name of equality. Now people are astonished that there are so many women being assaulted. Men, especially young men, cannot be deprogrammed to not want sex, even those that are not socially adept with women. It’s Darwinism. Either put back the social rules separating the sexes or get used to the failure of the current ones. The #MeToo effort has some very positive aspects but unless it is coupled with new rules that separate vulnerable women from aggressive men, it will ultimately be a failure.

The guy in the article thought the same thing, until his antics finally caught up with him.

Seems he fits in this category then:

if you are not very good with the opposite sex, and not confident in your ability to properly determine which behaviors are appropriate, and which ones aren't, you should follow the advice above, and avoid anything altogether.

As I said, if you are not one of those people:

If you are one of those people that are able to properly determine which behaviors are appropriate, and which ones aren't, carry on, nothing's changed.