Billionaire Cheater Caught on Jumbotron at Coldplay Concert
A billionaire cheater was caught canoodling with his mistress on a Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert and the world is dying of schadenfreude.
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Astronomer tech CEO Andy Byron got busted cuddling his staffer Kristin Cabot on a live Jumbotron camera at a Coldplay concert. And in one beautiful moment, a chump fantasy came true — an entire stadium of people laughed at the cheaters. Then the whole thing went viral and everyone I’ve ever known sent me the links. Including an AI version of what Chump Lady would make of the spectacle. (You can all stop stuffing my inbox, thank you.)
But before I snark, let’s let the pictures tell the story (photo credit TikTok @instaagraace). The cringe… the horror… the justice.
Uh oh.
Hands off the Schmoopie, Andy! Duck! I’m sure averting your eyes from a live 65,000-square-foot-LED video display is solid damage control. That crouch says, “Nothing to see here except male pattern baldness.”
But Dude, we all saw.
We. All. Saw. Including Megan Kerrigan, Andy Byron’s wife. Who, according to Newsweek, removed her last name and then immediately deleted her Facebook account following the cheating news. (Newsweek says “cheating allegations” — but come on, Newsweek. Don’t gaslight us, we have eyes.)
Welcome to Chump Nation, Megan. You have our sympathies. All D-Days are horrific, but a public D-Day is even worse. I hope you take comfort in the global ridicule of your soon-to-be-ex and his bang maiden. Because those of us without million dollar divorce settlements sure are.
Speaking of Schmoopies…
Kristin Cabot should know better.
The bang maiden in question is the director of Human Resources. Yes, the people contractually obligated to protect Astronomer from a sexualized workplace environment are being led by Ms. Feel-My-Tits.
How is this not an affair, Newsweek? Is Andy Byron a human ace bandage? But we all know how FWs and billionaires are, rules for thee and not for me.
The HR staffer – who has the second surname Thornby in brackets on her LinkedIn – boasts on her page that she wins “trust with employees of all levels, from CEOs to managers to assistants”.
When Cabot was appointed in November, Byron released a gushing comment praising her “exceptional leadership and deep expertise in talent management”.
Is that what they’re calling blowjobs now?
What a mess.
Cowering under stadium seating hasn’t worked as damage control, but as yet, Andy Byron hasn’t released a statement. I imagine he’s busy responding to Megan’s lawyers as they depose his coworkers.
However, a fake apology from Andy Byron (screen name “P. Enis”) went viral. The creator clearly speaks fluent sorry-not-sorry cheater-ese. I’m not surprised people bought it.
Not a real apology, but a good imitation of a bad one!
I suspect that troll reads a lot of Chump Lady.
The best thing to come out of this debacle, other than the high octane schadenfreude, is the memes.
Your Friday Challenge is to add to the snark. Or tell me if you can think of a worse way to be busted as a cheater than Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot.
Blaming the band/concert venue is my favorite part of his non apology.
Right? It is only a matter of hours before he is blaming his wife, or his mother. I wonder if the whore is married, or pretending to be a girlfriend to someone.
I heard that she was married, too.
My FW actually did exactly that, mostly blaming me but also his mother
As I linked in the article, the apology is reportedly fake. https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/17/coldplay-concert-ceo-alleged-affair-astronomer-statement-fake/
But as you said, it sounds very genuine. Also, according to CNN, his company has placed him on “leave.” I’d guess the next step is for the board of directors to fire him. And possibly her since she’s the head of Human Resources at the company.
I doubt the company cares if married employees fool around, but they probably care about the CEO fooling around with a senior employee.
They care that the company has gotten such bad publicity so they will probably make an example of her and fire her immediately because heads must roll, then wait until the rumble stops and quietly bring him back in, at full salary and benefits.
I’m sure he feels that that’s the best move right now. Narcissist that he is, he probably thinks, say nothing, and eventually the news cycle will move on. And he’s not wrong!
But the callousness of his actions and inactions may affect his family for a LONG time. Very possibly forever. Especially his wife. Scumbag.🤬
I hope they don’t have kids. My kids were cringing just because their mother was a well known local politician when she announced her affair to me. I can only imagine how awful this would be for their kids, if they have any.
Oh well, the billionaire scum Andy Byron is saying to himself. As Jeff Bezos probably said when he was found out (a la Daffy Duck), “consequences, shmonsequences. As long as I’m rich.”
We’re dealing with real life Daffy Ducks in the media spotlight now. Cartoons imitate life, and life imitates cartoons. What a fucking sad world these idiots make for themselves and their families. Not to mention the people working with, for and under them.
They’ll probably never fully realize it, though. Building their own hell, and they’re oblivious to it. But we see it.
They do have kids. Two boys, looks like they’re at least late high school age.
What a wonderful role model their father is to two young men. *gag*
Such a narcissistic thing to do, we’ve all experienced that sort of blame shifting, always the victim so they never have to be accountable.
YES
He’s such a total piece of sh*t. “When I was out in public openly cheating on my wife, I didn’t give consent for anybody to notice that! How dare you?!”
He even looks like a piece of shit doesn’t he. I am sure Ester would say he is just feeling alive, why on earth is he ducking from something as innocent as feeling alive.
When I saw that, I laughed pretty hard. Seriously bold of these fws to just strut around in public, then think they were being private. That she is in HR is seriously dumb. Guess who will never work in that capacity again! Hahaha. Feels good to see them mocked. I will savor each new meme. I hope Megan takes him to the cleaners.
My son graduated and I no longer have to talk to my FW for anything and it is glorious. And my son understands, he told me, that I am and always was the parent he can rely on. I never had to tell him. I am having a great Tuesday. 14 years post divorce. Happiness and true freedom achieved. Off to vacation with my faithful husband and fuckwit-free summer!
They have also been opened up for lawsuits against the company. Anyone who has been fired, or transferred for not disclosing a relationship has a case.
I feel so sorry for the chump in this case. Assuming she was not an OW to begin with.
Huh, good point.
“Guess who will never work in that capacity again.”
I hope this comes true, but the wealthy and connected generally fail UP.
Consequences are for peasants.
This.
My last employer ran on nepotism and operated like a frathouse, with people being promoted based on who they were friends (or sleeping) with. Two senior guys were dating subordinates, one of whom thought that meant she had permission to terrorize the staff.
The company declared bankruptcy after I left. Everybody was laid off, but all the assholes responsible for driving the company into the ground were allowed to save face and were miraculously given jobs elsewhere, while all the peons received paltry severances and languished out of work for up to a year.
Yeah Astronomer have already announced an investigation but they haven’t stood him down.
I suspect he will get a kick in the bum and keep his job and she will be fired because she’s HR and should’ve known better.
Typical.
Congratulations to you and your son!! I hope you have the best vacation ❤️
I figured out (20 plus years after the fact) that Cheaty McLiarfaces really good friend was his not so secret crush a.k.a. my potential replacement. Even with the passage of that much time, I fantasized about showing up at one of their secret lunches with our then small children and standing outside the restaurant window until we caught their attention. The looks on their faces would have eventually become a cherished memory that would bring a smile to my face.
I have to admit that I’m just a little jealous of such a public outing. I can hear Mr. CEO now, “It’s not what it looks like!”
And if he hadn’t been standing there holding her that way, it might be credible for it not to be “what it looks like.” But not when he was hugging her like that.
Reminds me of the time back in the 90s when I was at the grocery store and saw a director at my company a couple of lines over with a woman. Who definitely wasn’t his wife because I’d met his wife. And, judging from their behavior, wasn’t his sister, or sister in law, or a platonic childhood friend, or anybody like that.
I was like, “Oh shoot, what if he sees me? That’s going to be awkward!” So I turned away from them and did my best to think “I’m not here.” Which worked, probably because he and his schmoopie were so intent on each other.
Good thing I wasn’t an investigator his wife had hired!
Working on a song parody as we speak . . . stay tuned
Scroll down, all. Outstanding!
They look like they fell asleep together in a tanning bed.
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Being the types who’d blithely put themselves and their entire families at risk for STIs, that makes sense. Interesting that HPV fragments have been discovered in melanoma biopsy specimens.
HAHAHA
OF COURSE she works in HR
Seriously. The most disordered person I ever worked with was the head of HR at the small university where I was a professor. Trying to contact her was like “Where’s Waldo?” or “Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?” She instructed her secretary never to transfer calls to her–the go-to phrase was “she’s in a meeting.” From my experience working with her I came to appreciate that “Human Resources Management” is corporate-speak for “Protect the Corporation at all Costs.” Any company that considers the people who work for it “human resources” doesn’t care a whit for their employees. All they want is to exploit those “human resources.”
Hey there Adelante, Amelia and new here chump, be careful with the generalizations. I changed to work in HR after D-day and refused to go back to the fitness industry because of the rampant and widely accepted cheating and narcs in that industry. Not ALL of them I emphasize, because I am a realistic adult. I work in Benefits in HR to HELP people file leave claims after domestic abuse and divorce, help then navigate their benefits and get on a 401k plan to help their new single-life future. AND I am also an alert whistleblower badass vigilante for BS in the company. I’d have been the first one reporting this story had I worked for this company. I’m sorry you got hurt by HR and PR people, but don’t label people by their profession– basic standard moral for being a good human.
I used to work in corporate communications myself. This is why I pointed out that PR is another field where sexual favoritism can be rampant, sadly. I think it is the same in both fields – they attract a lot of people with good intentions, skills and a great work ethic who may do very valuable work if circumstances permit. Unfortunately, however, things can also turn out quite differently if someone in senior management has narcissistic tendencies and may even happen to be a FW, too. These departments may be among the first who would be forced to support their own short-term self interests first and foremost, pushing out everybody who isn’t fully on the same page. Promoting a schmoopie to one of these positions may also be easier than elsewhere because both PR and HR are supposed to work very closely with senior management.
It is very often either this or the public relations department, in my experience. Both are very much about image management, and it is more difficult than in other fields to measure performance objectively, making it easier to justify a questionable hiring decision.
THIS! See my comment above. They are image management professionals- such as dark part of corporate life.
they’ve been jumbotronned. sounds like a big booty dance move.
TBH i would’ve preferred my executive X and his AP, his direct subordinate, were caught on the tron. it would’ve been all out in the open and, likely, dealt with directly. instead, they kept their relationship quiet (as if no one noticed) and announced their relationship to senior management who then changed the org chart so they could fuck.
it’s tedious.
i still cringe when i realize the business dinners i attended where all the people there knew my X and his AP (also present) were engaged in an affair, while both her husband and i sat there making small talk.
it’s an uncaring world, it really is.
”Jumbotronned”!!! What a great word!
Just consider the possibility that the types of people who don’t approve of these workplace shenanigans might be either dodging workplace social events or else turning blind eyes in order to avoid getting sanctioned and/or subpoenaed to testify in lawsuits.
In any case, that’s the impression I got from the workplace whistleblower who informed me about FW’s affair. It took the guy more than six months to get up the courage after his girlfriend pushed him to do it because it was affecting his work. He described how several peers also felt “burdened” and stressed out by witnessing the ickiness, that they’d lost all respect for FW and no one could stand the AP who apparently became bossy and imperious during the affair (as if– and I quote– “wearing FW’s strap-on dick” lol). He said there was a bit of “favoritism” buzz that could technically have led to litigation but, since HR managers are often gatekeepers who shield the pervy proclivities of superiors and intimidate employees who complain, no one wanted to step forward. People were also afraid of “getting run down in the parking lot” by the types of people who cheat or poach.
Even if this individual waffled over blowing the whistle and shared this anonymously by dummy email, I was grateful for the heads up and some of the background details (like the mocking nicknames) because it spared me from traumatized and psychologically-isolating impressions that a) the affair was anything other than sordid, sloppy, ridiculous and gross and b) that most people approve of this crap. At least in my case these impressions turned out to be just the typical false delusions of cheaters.
In retrospect I realized that this is probably partly why chumps are so vulnerable to thinking the whole world sides with cheaters. Aside from the fact that many bystanders are passive because they instinctively fear getting on the bad sides of cheaters and poachers the way you’d hesitate to get in the way of wild elephants in rut, and aside from the wag-the-dog positive media spin on cheating, I think there’s a kind of spellbinding effect because cheaters’ typical ego-wanking behavior during affairs seems to imply they fully believe everyone admires, respects or envies their conquests and conduct. But, haha, not so much.
“shared this anonymously by dummy email” Excellent strategy! I was tipped off by one of our employees through very indirect communication, i.e. she said something wherein I could connect the dots by myself. She protected herself and helped me at the same time.
I thought it was smart and it also validated my impression that FW was becoming creepy and scary during the affair and it wasn’t just me picking up on it.
Over the course of a three day email exchange, my “Deep Throat” lowered his guard (I think he was relieved I didn’t shoot the messenger or go nuts and suck on an exhaust pipe) and divulged personal information so I probably could have pieced together who he was. But, I encouraged him to guard his identity because, like him, I preferred to maintain plausible deniability in case I was deposed and also because it was great fun making FW paranoid that anyone or everyone at work could be an informant.
It was very cute to learn that the whistleblower and his girlfriend decided to get engaged in the middle of this. I like to think they deepened some kind of ethical bond and trust through the drama or something.
During my most recent bullying experience with a married CEO’s alleged schmoopie, she started flaunting her connection to him almost immediately after they had met for the first time during a business event (and talked for hours – I was sadly able to witness this from afar and had a very bad gut feeling almost immediately). From then on, she acted as if she was everybody’s boss (she wasn’t, just a fairly inexperienced junior employee), dropped his name in almost every other sentence she spoke etc. Some time later, he gave her a very undeserved promotion (and then he was let go himself shortly afterwards, although ostensibly for unrelated reasons). I don’t think most people approved of this – quite the opposite. They were just too scared to cross either her or him, and for good reasons (I got in her way and had to pay a steep price for it).
Personally I’m terrified of cheaters and poachers. If they weren’t so disordered and delusional, they’d also be afraid of each other… as one serially cheating superior of mine discovered the hard way.
This happened when I was given a lot of creative control over a project that was happening in two cities simultaneously. My counterpart came to town to see what we were doing and promptly started bonking the married project director. I naively thought she was a victim of exploitation until I realized she was lifting all my ideas and calling them her own and also telling the project director how I was “cynical about men.”
Mate poaching is simply poaching after all and underhanded workplace coups and intellectual theft are probably close cousins. At least it solved the mystery of how someone so dumb and dizzy could have earned a degree from Yale.
Later she roped him into doing some project in Europe. Once on location, it turned out her funding was fictitious and he was saddled with the entire production bill out of pocket. It was the most expensive f*ck of his life, a fact I got a bitter kick out of when I found out the boss had slyly led colleagues to believe that the mysterious, unnamed underling he was bonking was me, not my slightly goofy-looking counterpart.
I discovered this when a senior writer started weirdly baiting me one day, saying “The wife of so-and-so [director] is such a big bitch, right? She doesn’t ‘understand’ him, does she?” Basically he was mocking what most side chicks tell themselves about the chumps they’re helping to betray but I was so confused by it (I kept defending the wife) that he realized he had the story completely wrong. In retrospect, the reason I don’t really resent the writer for doing this is because I sensed he was motivated to defend the director’s wife and genuinely disapproved of cheating. He also carefully backed away from the joke, was never an asshole again and recommended me for a big project (that I didn’t get but still appreciated the shot).
This is yet another layer of injustice (and another weapon of the patriarchy, sadly): Even entirely uninvolved women are sometimes accused of benefiting from sexual favoritism.
You can also end up groped in the elevator or roofied at a company event. Of course I blame the pervs most of all but still always resented how career bangmaids pour blood in the water that stirs up the resident sharks.
I think it is shocking with how much these creeps and FWs can get away with. On the other hand, despite all the (unfair) power given to them, they still manage to make very dumb and often self-destructive decisions while trying to accommodate their schmoopies (causing serious harm to their own careers, their employers and often many other people), as many comments here show. If it weren’t for the far-reaching and painful consequences, it would be almost fascinating to watch.
It is kind of fascinating in a “yikes, ew, wow” kind of way. Because I periodically check the web or tap into gossip to make sure no ghouls from my past are working or living nearby, I’ve seen how a lot of these creeps end up in the long run and it’s not pretty. Divorce, DV charges, addiction, ending up with drug-addicted stripper baby mamas, wrecked careers, early demise (quite a bit of HPV-related throat cancer and melanoma), ruined reputations, criminal records, prison and just the fact they don’t age well or that they completely disappear off the radar (bliss for some of us but amounts to catastrophic failure for careerist narcs).
To quote the concert-goer who posted the Jumbotron video, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
I left my job in March because of this exact same situation. Schmoopie wreaked havoc, had people fired, etc. — and no one would do a thing about it because everyone knew she was the CEO’s AP.
Similar situation at my last job. One of the executives was sleeping with one of his staff and made her a director. Together, they proceeded to terrorize everybody and run the company into the ground.
I left so I wasn’t there to see Judgement Day in person, but I’m told both of them were stunned when the parent company swooped in and fired them six months later.
Not soon enough to save the company, unfortunately.
Similar, except Schmoopie’s reign of terror caused people to quit – people who had double the work experience and triple the IQ. Actually, let me amend: Schmoopie and FW’s reign of terror, because he was the practice owner and he allowed all that BS to happen. In addition to about 20 people quitting in 5 months time (out of a staff of 8), rumor had it that Mrs. Bendover had one new hire fired promptly because, said my informant, “she was young and very pretty”. Paranoid much?
How do you reckon it goes, when a FW / AP combo piss off a load of employees who leave / are fired – and then the company has no more hold on what they tell to whom? However cowed in the workplace, I might find a pair if the f*ckers had not only messed my life up, but in the process removed the main reason I might have wanted to stuff down my revulsion and keep my head down…
The AP in my situation had the same rep. She reportedly got herself into a “mentoring” position at a professional guild and then used it to screen out anyone younger or prettier (which, given her acne scars and general lumpiness, was nearly every female grad who applied).
I guess these fears are often justified. After our married then-CEO had gotten involved with alleged schmoopie, he continued to chat up other young employees who were his “type”.
One coworker of mine was even offered a prestigious position that would have required her to work closely with him. Of course, she was his “type”, too, just prettier (and with a much better sense of style) than schmoopie. Thankfully, she declined.
On the other hand, schmoopie also continued to flirt with other married senior managers (even in front of the CEO!), and some of them responded very positively (which was disconcerting to watch).
I think those two were each other’s worst punishment. I only wish they hadn’t wreaked so much havoc.
These people are like chimps flinging feces.
It is an uncaring world. Hold tight to. your people. My life is smaller and better in so many ways, but the reason for that is what you say, an uncaring world.
As I’ve mentioned here before, throughout my career, I experienced two incidences of severe workplace bullying where the perpetrators (women) were quite obviously sleeping with a married (male) senior manager and therefore getting away with a lot. The damage to my career was significant and long-lasting. Therefore I would argue that cheating combined with sexual favoritism tends to harm a lot of people, much more than many bystanders might imagine. It might be interesting to hear about the experiences of Byron’s and Cabot’s coworkers.
I’d be curious to hear from the “plebe” perspective as well. It’s always the most interesting and informative. I was reading a comment thread on a business management chat site where the discussion was about the “psychological and moral trauma” of having to witness married overlords banging the help in corporate settings.
sexual favoratism + sexualized workplace + lack of integrity is damaging. it’s a lot. i know in my X’s case, he fired another female employee who was vying for the same promotion as the AP. instead, he promoted the AP to director.
this all happened after our marriage ended, so i don’t know the details but i assume it was connected.
Your comment is a reminder that most of the sexual harassers and quid-pro-quo-ers exposed in the news since #MeToo are also FWs.
FWIW, the vast majority of creeps and sexual harassers over the age of 30 I ever encountered happened to be married, at least in “reputable” settings such as the workplace or doctor’s offices. It is a sad truth.
PS they both exited the company within 2 years. the X was fired and has not found another job because of a bad reputation, and the AP “left” to pursue other opportunities. so it all shook it itself out, but FFS. changing the org chart to accommodate fucking is ridiculous.
Some years ago, my second job after college, I worked for a small tech company in which it was widely known that the married CEO/co-owner was bonking the head of marketing. Most employees were on the equivalent of minimum wage (I’m not sure it’s ever been introduced in that state) and had minimal benefits. One day we were all told to pile into the cafeteria so that the CEO could present his mistress with a brand-new TV to replace the one that had just been burgled from her apartment. He made a big fuss about how ‘we take care of our people’ (it was widely rumored that the company was paying for the aparment, too). To her credit, the marketing head was visibly embarrassed by the public gesture.
On a slightly related note, I think that if a state in the US doesn’t have a mandated minimum wage, the federal minimum wage applies.
I’m visualizing a 30 year age gap between the CEO/co-owner and the likely-out-of-her-depth head of marketing.
If any of those idiotic Ashley Madison “studies) (which found that mistresses tend to shop at Banana Republic and cheaters tend to take mistresses to chain restaurants like Red Lobster, Ruth’s Chris and The Cheesecake Factory) ever reported the musical tastes of cheaters and poachers, I’m betting Coldplay (gag, yawn) would top the list.
In my experience, aside from HR positions often being used as a way for companies to pretend they have women in executive posts, it seems rather typical for HR directors to be veteran office doorknobs who’ve usually aged out of bangmaid status but can still be relied on to give workplace harassment claims the runaround, to intimidate disgruntled employees out of lodging favoritism complaints involving superior/subordinate affairs or even to pimp new hires to pervy old honchos.
I thought the HR scene in the film The Assistant completely nailed the type except for the fact that the human resources ghoul was played by Matthew Macfayden when, in reality, over 75% of HR managers are women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sa6C7J1zwU
OMG! I never thought of it like that but it’s so true! It is a way to pretend they have women in executive positions!
I worked in HR for a little bit before I graduated and went into accounting. I don’t miss HR. I know some great people who work in HR who care (and they’re almost all women too!) but there are plenty of total weirdos (also almost all women) who have zero people skills and I would wonder how they even got the job in the first place. And the amount of total weirdos with no people skills who are also incompetent at their jobs is excessively high in HR. It’s shocking.
I remember getting really upset at our HR director bungling things like the health insurance of someone with a serious medical condition. Multiple times I had to calm down and comfort people dealing with a death because her condolences literally sounded sarcastic when they were trying to get their bereavement pay. It was so, so bad. I remember asking how did she get an HR job at all, much less a high level one?! She seemed like a liability to the company! She didn’t even have like grade school level people and communication skills! Something would happen and she would p*ss the person off and make them want to sue more!
But honestly, it just clicked into place when you said that above. One of the older managers told me about some rumors from years ago… It does make sense.
Yes, so true! I agree–HR is a way for a company to pretend that they have women in executive posts!
Gah, we’re still in the dark ages regarding equality. The really pathetic thing is that the “higher” you go in social class, the worse it gets.
I remember Esther Perel running into web flack for claiming that we’re in a post-feminist age where victims of sexual aggression have no problem speaking out like they did the past. Most of the comments were along the lines of “Uh, do you live on planet Earth?”
I’m 40 and I’ve been working since I was 14. My current employer is the first I’ve ever had where I was NOT sexually harassed, and where my bosses recognize that I’m a smart, talented, valuable asset instead of a pair of boobs. Y’all can do the math.
My last employer was a boys club. I was constantly passed over for training and promotions. Guys openly told I must’ve slept my way to get where I was, even though I beat 20 other candidates for the job and soon found myself carrying an entire department (without the pay to match). I was getting paid half the salary of the senior guys to fix their mistakes, yet management kept telling me I “wasn’t ready” for a higher title and “needed to work harder.”
Also, management kept suspiciously trying to shoehorn me and the only other woman in our department into secretarial/mother hen work like project management and training newbies, neither of which was in our job descriptions.
I finally negotiated a manager title, and in response the CEO lowballed me by $40k. I got him to $30k and he said that was as high as he could go because $40k was just too big a jump. Uh buddy, isn’t that just a confession on how badly you are underpaying me to do the work of 10 people and manage my own boss?
The CEO promised the final $10k in six months once I’d “proven myself” (LMAO) and I said ok. I was just relieved to not be living on peanut butter anymore.
Six months later, a rival company poaches me. My boss flips out, threatens to sue me for breaking my non-compete, and has me escorted from the building. Oh, guess I was more valuable than you guys would admit, huh?
Three weeks later, my former department is liquidated and all my teammates laid off. A year later, the company folds and declares bankruptcy.
I hear through the grapevine that management can’t figure out what happened. Apparently they can’t connect the dots that they kept promoting incompetent dudes and their girlfriends (who ran the company into the ground) while pushing out anybody (usually women) who actually held the place together.
Sounds familiar, both the excuses given for not getting a promotion and for things… not going so well after my departure.
Hah, you were the little Dutch Boy and apparently took your finger out of the dyke (the water retaining kind) when you left.
The inequality is a crime.
It should be! In the meantime, I’ve been taking pleasure in quietly elevating hard-working women in my field and getting the assholes from my last job blacklisted.
I’m afraid the current political ambience will encourage freaks to let their freak flags fly higher than ever but the pendulum will swing the other way again.
(to the tune of Viva La Vida)
We had it all and more
Corner suites on the fourteenth floor
And after Coldplay, it’s all withdrawn
All the perks of the gig are gone
We used to feel the heat
Flaunted it in the company suite
We were having so much fun
But the kissing cam won, and now we’re done
One minute, we were cuddling
Now the board is conferencing
And that’s what happens when you screw around
On the company’s dime and company’s time
We need the crisis consultants talkin’
High priced PR consultants squawkin’
Be our mouthpiece, our front, our screen
Our romp has put us in a shit machine
For some reason we can’t explain
Once you’re caught, there is never, never a fair recall
Just remember that we had it all . . .
Outstanding as always.
A long, healthy and productive life to Weird Al, but if he ever retires UXWorld is ready to grab the baton
Standing O. Don’t be surprised if your lyrics escape the page and go viral.
LOL at the “kissing cam won and now we’re done”!
First I have to say that I resisted 2 massive urges yesterday when I saw this crazy news. 1. I resisted sending this to Tracy — I KNEW she would see this lol (man, this went viral beyond viral) 2. I resisted sending a meme to FW lol (wanted to so badly!)
Here’s my snark. This wasn’t far off from what I dealt with. FW hired AP and she served as HR at a small education company! He was senior to her and acting CFO. So this hit close to home. Then they both had to sign documents with corporate legal to protect the company’s a** — humiliating. FW was then unceremoniously let go (he was such a do*uche at work that he apparently was already on the way out before this discovery.)
But it gets better. The week of DDay FW bragged that he and AP were hitting an outdoor movie together on a date… Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He even told me the park it was at. So after FW left with a smirk, I called the PI I hired and the PI got all the documentation I needed to prove adulter. They were right there in the open and making out. I never saw the photos — even the PI told menot to look. But it was all I needed. And the PI added that FW was the biggest idiot he’s followed in years lol. These idiots never think they’ll be caught.
Wow. Amazingly stupid.
I hope your X had to see the photos bc they are never satisfied w how they look and I bet he looked so stupid
Oh yes FW saw the photos! Lol! He was so mad. And in his delusional mind, he blocked out that he TOLD me where they’d be. Instead he tried telling everyone that I had a PI following them the whole time. But no, this was as efficient a gig as this PI ever had. FW saved me money and time. Since FW GAVE ME his time and location at a public outdoor venue, the PI knew exactly where to be. He said “usually it’s near impossible to prove adultery because most will go to hotel rooms and there is almost no way to access that. But these idiots doing this in public made it quick and easy.” PI told me they were all over each other. FW was completely humiliated much like the jumbotron CEO. Apparently they both looked gross lol
It really helps having a gallows humor buddy in the midst of trauma. To quote the whistleblower who ratted out the workplace affair, “They’re like toddlers peeing in the pool and thinking no one could see the yellow plume” lol.
Also from the fact FW kept implying during the affair that I was an embarrassing social misfit who didn’t “know how to get along with people,” he clearly thought everyone at work universally adored him and envied his conquest. But in reality both had earned themselves nicknames like “Viagra Dick” and “Debbie-wise the Gutter Clown.”
After the gaslighting he’d subjected me to, I admit it was satisfying bursting his popularity delusion on D-day. I compared the two of them to the “bath salts dudes” from the Funny or Die video where two corporate dorks think they’re acing a big presentation while they’re actually on a demented rampage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VwBodcrGY).
Holy crap! I had never seen that before! Thanks for sharing it.
Why is HR such a red flag of bad people? I love that you got your snark…I am so no contact I have no idea what’s going on. Which is best for me. But I relish the sharing of this- thank you!
While I, too, enjoy the sight of these two brazen cheaters caught cavorting at a concert, I can’t help but feel bad for any kids involved. It’s hard enough dealing with a cheating parent, but having it be so public must be tough.
And, of course, my heart goes out to the chumped spouse. Hope she finds her way to this site.
My pastor gave a sermon on Galatians and had the exact same conclusion as you. He really hurt his kids, bad. Back to school is going to completely suck for those kids.
“I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith—as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run, and so that’ll make it a 4–0 ballgame.” lol
I just knew this was going to make it on Chump Lady today. This reminds me of the time when I was a personnel officer for an Air Force maintenance squadron and one of our members was in the process of divorcing her cheating shitbird of a husband. He swore up and down it wasn’t true. Then what happened? He and the affair partner were plastered all over a page in the Air Force Times’ section on recreation. They were talking about how much they loved caving together. The picture was huge. It wasn’t as spectacular as this, but it was still enough that anyone who knew the guy could see what a dipshit he was.
Comeuppance is beautiful.
Here are a some snarks
1.Coldplay? I thought it was Foreplay
2. I wish my astronomer job could have seen this in the stars.
3. I’m a boss that likes to get close to my employees. So sue me… I think my wife will
4. I thought CEO stood for Cheating Evil Occupation
OMG I sometimes wonder if my ex is married to his HR woman -( I think it is largely a female occupation, like casting agents? Not sure-) as I do not know who she is, something I am proud of- just know the name of his workplace affair/ new wife. I do know when his secret life was growing his salary did, and he left one big corporation for another and took his HR female person with him.That was a weird thing…buy hey, they are Professional Image Management people. So, makes senes! The dumbest thing about this statement of gross rich man above – it all is hilariously dumb- is should have been “a private moment” and he blames the public! When he was IN PUBLIC! The entitlement knows no bounds. Good riddance to bad garbage to his soon to be ex wife (I hope)!
He actually didn’t make this statement. Somebody wrote it and published it as a parody.
So I guess this is coming back and haunting them.
My f wit affair partner also claimed to be a “people person” on linked in!! I think they meant “other people’s” person!!
The AP in my situation claimed “empathy” as her chief personality trait on her Linked-in. Yeah, guzzling thousands of dollars worth of booze, pigging out on overpriced bistro pizza and going on cheesy four star hotel dirty weekends at the expense of three minor kids’ college funds… so empathic.
The only justice was that she ended up fat as a house on our family dime.
In my experience, most people who publicly brag about their “people skills” barely possess any of these, at least not in a positive sense.
People skills is code for “bar fly” or “coke head.”
I’ve been laughing at this, as it hits very close to home for me. FW is a tech CEO and the AP is his HR Director (or Chief People Officer, WTF kind of title is that?) I only wish that they had been publicly outed in this way! D-day was October 2021 and, as I am firmly no contact, I have no idea whether they are still together or how it’s played out in the office. I have preferred, as Velvet Hammer so rightly says, ‘to keep my side of the street clean’ (tempting as it was to publicly out them at the time). CheaterCEO and HRho (as LovedAJackass so brilliantly named them for me on Reddit!) are still working together, but FW has his 91 year-old narcissistic mother living with him now and not the AP (according to DS). Karma is a wonderful thing. Hugs to Chump Lady and all of Chump Nation for keeping me sane over the last four years and, of course, for the continued snark.
we’re a member of the same subset, lovestostudyhistory. and yes, karma is wonderful thing!
I’m sorry this happened to you too damnitfeelsbadtobeachumpster. But re-reading your comment above, it sounds as if the ‘karma bus’ did arrive for your FW and his AP, hurray!
The deceptive duo are being reamed on every continent. Here’s the best one so far, all the way from Australia, where the host dismantles his sorrynotsorry letter paragraph by narcissistic paragraph:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRKEDEBu1gM&t=14s
As usual, the wife is way prettier than the sidepiece…
This newscaster was terrific! She could even go up against Esther Perel, I bet!
The cringe, the horror, the justice, AND the perfect sort of documentation for a really great divorce settlement!
Yup, jackpot for the STBXW.
not necessarily. there are several legal sticking point here. 1. the CEO could be fired with cause therefore no severance. 2. who knows what the CEO has been doing with finances because he’s a liar and a cheat, so stores of $ may not exist. 3. if the AP comes back and sues for sexual harassment, it could get messy, and fast. she can go after monies that both the CEO and his wife share. 4. other women/men may come out of the woodwork with sexual harassment charges of their own. do you think this guy has been operating in a vacuum? nope.
i hope the wife has hired a really good lawyer.
i’m curious to see how the company responds TBH.
3. if the AP comes back and sues for sexual harassment, it could get messy, and fast. she can go after monies that both the CEO and his wife share.
This is why my lawyer advised me to get a settlement contract sooner, rather than later. FW had been threatened with harassment lawsuits twice (two different employees) during the year+ negotiations after D-Day. If any of those threats had made it to actual filings I would have walked away with peanuts after 35 years of building a family, a life, a business. I had thought of contacting Mrs. Bendover (if it feels good don’t do it) and informing her that she could have made millions in a sexual harassment lawsuit (FW heavily insured for HR issues as well as others). He was well aware of her mental health issues and I believe that would be a huge factor in any legal complaint. Instead now I’m happy that she settled for a workaholic who had, at best, half of the wealth he used to have.
best thing, i received the same advice re: settlement. i was worried about harassment lawsuits and felt anxious until the agreement was signed. it’s a real point of vulnerability. all that work building a family, and a life.
I’m comforted by knowing that I wasn’t the only Chump who rushed a settlement. FW was the subject of extortions and God knows what else because… Iceberg.
I would have been jointly liable
I meant the STBXW hit the jackpot in terms of cringe (there is really no way either of the cheaters can impression-manage this one), justice and evidence, not necessarily the financial jackpot. I hadn’t considered the points you raised, but I hope his money is not all ‘on paper’ and his wife does walk away with plenty.
Any time there’s a big cheating story in the news, I always assume Tracy has already seen it and resist the urge to send it to her.
I think the funniest part of this is that they basically “Streisand Effect”‘ed themselves by reacting the way they did. If they’d just smiled and waved at the camera, maybe Byron’s spouse would have eventually learned of it, but the Internet probably wouldn’t have cared. By trying to duck and hide their faces, they made it 1000x worse.
Or they could have acted as if it had been nothing more than a joke. Thankfully, they didn’t, I guess.
The Newsweek story shows the video. After turning her back, while you can see her partial profile, Cabot appears to be is smiling. Is she glad they were caught, so she can get her man? Although one can only hope neither one has a job after this.
The former CEO doesn’t want to be confused with the cheater, and released a statement clarifying that it was not him, he’s no longer CEO, and no longer affiliated with the company.
I can’t think of a worse way to be busted as a cheater unless it’s to catch a cheater pontificating on marital fidelity. But we’ve already had plenty of preachers and politicians busted for affairs.
I noticed that too. Schmoopie is so “embarrassed” she’s laughing with her co-conspirator friend. Pre-teenage girls often act like this. So you know how far up the emotional intelligence chain Schmoops resides. FW included with the boobie hug 🙄
First of all, Tracy-I have been anxiously awaiting your post on this, and once again, you did not disappoint!
Second, Exactly! Unbelievable narcissistic behavior. Anyway, if he was really a fan of Coldplay, he would’ve paid attention to how Chris Martin “consciously uncoupled” from his wife back in the day. Now Andy Byron’s going to be “publically uncoupled” and hopefully taken to the cleaners by his wife. To Andy Byron’s wife-“trust that he sucks”. Millions of people now KNOW that he sucks!
I saw a joke post on Reddit titled “Did the heimlich on my employee. Now I’m trending. Weird.”, looked up what it was about, then headed directly over here for the fun. That non-apology is excellent, spot on.
🤣 😂 I imagine the sex is not great. Death grip, manhandling, ick.
Exactly! I thought he was pumping her from behind
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“What was supposed to be a night of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake.”
Huh? You were on a date, jackhole. It didn’t “turn into” a “mistake.” You, a married man, planned a date with someone who works for you. You went on that date. It wasn’t unintentional, and it didn’t “turn into” something all by itself. Swear to god, this crap is infuriating.
And the classic—this isn’t me. “This is not who I want to be or how I want to represent the company I helped build.” It’s disgusting that he has more to say about the effect on his business than he does about the effect on his wife and two kids.
Umm…he didn’t actually make this statement. Someone else wrote it and published it as a parody.
Very good points.
I want to shake him and say, “this is exactly who you are, you are not the person you are pretending to be, you are a lying cheating jackass, own it”
Wait, now I see that he actually did not issue this apology. Whoever did post it has the cheater-speak down. Was it a member of CN?! 😂 ‘Fess up!
I assumed that it was a member of his personal or his company’s PR team. Who else would be motivated to do it? If it were some rando they would have made it a joke, instead of a serious attempt at damage control. I’m just speculating of course.
Almost all D-days are public, the amount of a larger public doesn’t make the pain of public humiliation worse for the chump. It is horrific to be publicly hamulated. And having your own world know you husband that you adored tell your world that he preferred the town whore to you is humiliating.
It’s horrifying. And each frame shows they don’t give a flying f about about his wife or family, just there own image mgt
excuse my spelling. Just saw that.
If you’re going to get busted at a concert, at least have the decency to not choose a substandard band. AC/DC would have been a better choice.
That statement was an appalling show of blameshift- who would want to stay married to such a coward?
Apart from their shared deplorable taste in music, the song quote was the icing on the trash is taking itself out celebration cake.
I hope their spouses ‘fix them’ with a well deserved divorce settlement.
Good work: icing on the trash is taking itself out celebration cake
Truly, I don’t know what it takes but I, as Chump bought alot of lies. Wasn’t Hillary Clinton embarrassed like that before the whole nation and the whole world??? She stayed. Without a boot to the neck, this means nothing. I want to see consequences. I’ll wait. But I must admit, it was brazen behavior and a great camera angle. 👏👏👏👏
Hillary knew of Bills multiple affairs for years. She kept her wagon hitched to Bill no matter. She’s smart and accomplished in other areas of her life, but not smart about Bill.
Kamala Harris also chose to marry a man who impregnated his kids nanny. Out of all the men in the world, why choose a spouse like that knowing his character. People are complex. Smart, capable folks can make poor partner choices. I’m no better and learned the hard way. It’s why I value Chump Lady. Her clarifying, no bs analysis has helped many.
Cantfoolme, thank you for bringing up the point that bright woman stay, brilliant woman hang on and reminding me of the absolute courage it takes to leave.
It is horrible too that after you STAY as a volunteer you can be left or you are ongoingly abused. Or or they leave you after you have knowingly forgiven and stayed, or not seeing the red flags right smack in the middle of your face you continue to be hurt and abused. Or you stay for money, house, kids, status..family, ..whatever the reason, Tracy pulls back the curtain and no one has to be ignorant of their choices. The blueprint is clear, the road map is printed, the GPS marks the path out or to stay in. As a chump x2 I took the exit out as soon as I knew because I had been burnt before and my Ex husband was merciless at the end. Whatever the outcome..for me self respect and truth over a life of hiding was a better healthier life . No parade, no insurance policy just sweet self love and care. It was worth it to me. And yes Brilliant people can are fooled too. Like all of us.
the company has released the first part of a statement:
Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability.
The Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly.
It will be interesting to see if this investigation is a PR move until the media attention dies down. The company must have already known. Is the “investigation” just to make them look good after the fact.
Words are cheep fodder for the masses..action speaks louder for the character of a company. In time we will see and it could be a set back but not a surprise for Chump nation
A case of two horrible, selfish people, with zero self-awareness meeting the Karma outing bus.( a big hooray for the bus driver!) in a highly public setting. I feel for the two betrayed spouses however, having experienced the ultimate humiliation of learning much later that literally everybody in the hospital department where my ex Fwit wife and her doctor head of said department affair partner ( also.married with several kids) worked, knew about my ex-wife s affair, and actively gave her cover. When I realized that every guest at a party we threw one Halloween knew about the affair and relished seeing me being paraded in front of the man who, unbeknownst to me, was banking my wife I decided that was it, I made up my mind: the divorce would proceed. The shock to my ex was immediate and hit her with consequences she had never imagined. Her efforts to make amends was by then, way too little, far too late.
It is unbelievable the chutzpah that cheaters have and the idea that your chumps ways are forever. No consequences as they are too special. Mine did not believe it till I went no contact. ..now 3 years. He thought we would be friends forever. He would have loved me on one arm and many OW on the other. But no.
Personally if my FW was exposed like this I would probably have recovered much faster. I have plenty of evidence but never confronted him but our kids know pretty much everything—
I haven’t felt joy in 2 years until seeing what the ‘tron caught. My FW kinda looks like the Byron so it helps to see that putz cringe. This way his wife has all the info she needs and he can’t deny it (I’m sure he’ll gaslight her though). And kids need to know the truth too. None of that coparenting bs—when you know a man is a lying prick why should his kids trust him blindly?
Not sure which is worse, being outed as a cheater, or being outed as a Coldplay fan?
It’s a very fine line 😆
It’s typical of FW people to eat up crap like those lyrics though-bluergh!
Lol, I don’t even know who they are; but I have seen a few good jokes about them.
Oh gross.That cuddling picture reminds me of photos I found of FW and his hoebag cuddling at a concert, with the same creepy euphoric look on their faces. Concerts were one of their excuses to get together. They would feel each other up in the shadows.
🤮
These two cheaters can FOAD, not just for being cheaters, but for reminding me of something that was deeply painful.
Cold shock replay..
I caught that look too, so gross
Yeah that ‘look’.
And clinging on for dear life like a triffid while trying to look smug and happy- they’re not- they’re just a couple of lying cowards .
There ain’t no love involved there.
A big FOAD from me too for similar memories.
Just wanted to add that I bet these two cowards have a Coldplay song they consider “their” song. That would be Yellow, naturally.
Hahaha!!!
So true!
Where’s Esther P when you need her? She could talk some sense into this pair of wayward magical, fairy creatures.
“Don’t hide in the bannister shadows sweet Fuckwit, away from the world. Let your fuckwittery shine bright and strong. You are a fuckwit, tall and proud. Alive I tell you – ALIVE!!!
There is nothing to be ashamed of. You are free now little ones. Free of the monotony of decency, authentic love and boring vows.
Dance like there’s no tomorrow, sing until you can sing no more. Wobble those needy tits until you can wobble no more.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light my brave, misunderstood Alive ones….”
Haha. I HATE Esther perel. She is the FW whisperer. Whispy whispy lick a dicksy
🤣I love it!
Esther Perel; Dick Whisperer
….Imagine the cheater playbook gaslighter narratives that Andy could have deployed if he hadn’t been so dazed by the Jumbotron?….the possibilities are endless…
“We decided to run the Astronomer HR workshops at a concert this year. For fun! When Karin’s tits started to expand – due to an allergic reaction to the mid morning break muffins – I had no choice but to quell them. I think I may have even saved her life”.
“I’ve never liked Karen from HR. She’s not like you darling. She’s not classy. Just between you and me I think she ‘gets around’ ughh. Anyway that photo you saw was me giving her the Heimlich manoeuvre. She’s administered so many blow jobs to married men that she has a permanently compromised respiratory system.”
“Karin?? Don’t be silly, she’s gay! That’s why Lucy (the brunette standing next to us) is looking so red in the face and shy. You see Karin’s husband doesn’t know yet. I felt so sorry for them. I was hugging Karin to let her know that I have her back – so to speak…”
🤣I called her “Karin” but she’s actually a “Kristin”, tomato/tomatah…
Lmao!
Oh, man. Instant karma! Sometimes it actually happens! They were in a public place and had no expectation of privacy. Why didn’t they stick to the local no tell motel?
I hope his wife divorces him, using a pitbull lawyer, and gets a large settlement!
This is so satisfying to so many chumps. Thank you universe!
Do you guys know how things work in Europe? Personal rights trump corporate rights, every time. During Covid, my ex-husband — the President of the company, no less — used the empty office building as his personal love shack with one of his married subordinates. Classy, right? They got caught red-handed by the husband of the “other woman” — who, fun fact, also works at the company. But wait, the real comedy starts after that.
The affair carried on for another whole year, right under my nose. Why? Because the poor betrayed husband kept quiet, hoping to salvage his marriage. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work. When the affair finally blew up publicly, you’d think there’d be consequences, right? Think again.
Plot twist: after it all became public knowledge, the woman got promoted — with the full blessing of the company owner. She’s now the company’s Strategic Director, married to my ex, the President. A real power couple… if your definition of power couple includes betrayal and backstabbing. They now run the whole show together. The other betrayed partner? He retired quietly — probably because screaming into the void didn’t come with a pension plan.
Of course, this woman had a long-standing strategy: always hitch her wagon to older men for career boosts. Textbook case, really. Meanwhile, the betrayed husband is emotionally wrecked, I’m dragging myself and our kids through life like extras in a Greek tragedy, and those two? They’re living their power trip, completely unchecked.
No consequences. No accountability. No ethical boundaries. Just a corporate playground for narcissists. And the company? They rewarded them for it. In Europe, no one ever gets fired for this stuff. NO ONE.
Wow, what a messed up story. Sorry the chump husband didn’t tell you, he should have. He didn’t like being blindsided. Sheesh.
I am SUPER sick of there being no consequences for cheating. This is such a destructive thing that ruins lives and if there are never consequences then people will never stop. They won’t even think about NOT doing it, since they know there is no consequences, other than maybe losing their spouse/partner and/or kids, which they have already shown mean nothing to them. The only way to get at the narcissistic rotten people is hit them were it hurts and that’s threatened jail time or financially.
If they were to walk into a restaurant and leave a bomb to blow it up and then walk out, they would get jail time for the destruction and everything in it’s wake. No different than cheating and destroying your partners/children’s lives. It well and truly feels exactly like a person threw a grenade in there and destroyed your life, leaving you for dead.
Family law is s#&t in the USA.
Sickening, but honestly it’s not much different in the US, except for one thing: lawyers. The reason people get fired for effing around at work is only because companies are terrified of lawsuits, not because they are moral and ethical entities. Those with money and clout don’t face consequences for social good, only for the bottom line.
It gets even better, the HR sidepiece is married to the CEO of another company. These clowns are disgusting.
I’m speculating how she got married to CEO hubby was exactly the same way, poached him from the previous wife
Turns out they’re both married. I’m sure they will lose their jobs over this and also be essentially unemployable. Are they going to be the next Amy and TJ??
Can’t wait for the podcast! (/s)
#consequences. Hope it was worth it.
I read that Cold Play’s Chris Martin called it out live and said “either they are having an affair or they are just shy?” I like that part, but what I don’t like is he followed it up with “I hope we didn’t do anything bad” as in, showing them on the big screen and them getting busted. Chris Martin, that is NOT the bad part, these POS’s SHOULD NOT BE CHEATING! THE CHEATING is the WRONG THING. Chris Martin should not have said any more after the first sentence. Or have some guts and say “I hope it’s not an affair.”
Sheesh…can’t believe people have to be TOLD this.
How about those shitty people DON’T CHEAT on their partners!
Can I go really, really dark for a moment? If it’s not ok and it gets removed I completely understand and I apologize. I was just thinking about how this guy threw away his great job and his family and a large chunk of his money for this woman. And I’m looking at her and I’m baffled in the same way I was baffled that my ex’s adult baby AP looked like my uglier sister. Why? Like bro is going to throw his life away for that? It’s not like she’s the world’s most famous supermodel or some other billionaire. Even that would be sh*tty but it would make some kind of logical sense. The FW would be getting something valuable to him out of it, possibly. But she’s just an average woman and he probably got her the job she has now. Plus she’s a dirtbag who cheats on her husband so is he really going to want to have an actual relationship with a woman who likes to cuck her men? Is he that pathetic? Because that would be really pathetic.
But anyways I got to thinking, I’m surprised these men don’t k*ll these women when this happens. I mean, FWs are not going to take accountability for their actions. We already know that’s their character. My ex HATES me because he blames me for all of his problems in life and he wanted to k*ll me. How do they not become incredibly angry and hateful toward the APs when they are losing so much over them? They have to. I know sometimes they blame the wife but isn’t it easier to blame the office ho who isn’t the mother of your children? And we all know they like easy.
But then I realized, there are plenty of situations where a woman who was connected to a powerful man disappears or dies. Now in this case, he can’t get away with it because it’s all too public. He’d be the number one suspect. So he’s just going to have to twist in his hatred of how much damage he did to himself by screwing this mediocre woman who has no values and only cares about herself. But he’s going to completely blame her for it. People could say she did the same, screwing someone with no values but she isn’t a billionaire. She isn’t going to take the same level hit that he’s going to take. People are barely even talking about what she’s done to her husband but they’re all over him for what he did to his wife. He’s taking way more damage her and he has more to lose.
But it got me thinking, this is one we see but how many do we not see? How many of these cases just result in a quiet disappearance? Or an unfortunate accident? And nobody ever even knows? It just got me thinking, people k*ll for a whole lot less. I don’t know. It’s like this is the part of the iceberg that we see but there’s so much more horror that we don’t lurking underneath the surface.
I think there’s a Woody Allen film (that alone brings problems) – called ‘Match point’ or similar. Scarlett Johansson is in it. The plot line is all about a FW who gets rid of his somewhat crass AP in order to maintain the cake in his life.
Yes I have absolutely heard ordinary people tell stories of chumped relatives untimely demise. This Kristin OW in particular could be a serial cheater herself, her husband’s older and wealthy and she’s not his first wife, some timelines I read online seems she could be the OWife?
I am constantly surprised at the level of woman these men throw away their lives for. I have no answers. I saw a pic of his wife, and she looks live a very pretty decent woman. Same age as her husband, but looked younger in the pic. May have been an older pic. Maybe she is a ogre, but I am going to give the benefit of the doubt to the one who hasn’t made a public ass of herself, and proven herself to be a lying cheat.
I’m not sure they ever do the math in the sense of: “This woman wasn’t worth it”. For some of them, the possibility of engaging in sexual favoritism might be their main goal in life and even the reason they are pursuing success and fame in the first place. If this is true, their only regret may be that through destroying their career, they lost their chance of acquiring more affair partners this way.
Could be. My ex turned to heavy gambling, when he got demoted. I suspect whore was a good as he could do. He ran around on her too, but I suspect his major heart attack stopped that and a couple years later he filed for bankruptcy. I knew he had been demoted and lost his office; as it was in the paper. But I only know the rest from what my son told me a few years later.
In general I wasn’t any less attractive than the seedy spa whores several of them I met in person. The CEO wife is actually slightly younger than the bottle blonde OW and not hideous.
Once I started reading here I finally realized why this seems so common – serial cheating NPD liar is all about kibbles and there’s no better kibble dispenser than paid whores. It’s not an issue for them if the dispenser bottle is uglier than the one at home.
I’m fairly certain my FW cheated with some of the HR women at a previous job. So cliché
” How do they not become incredibly angry and hateful toward the APs when they are losing so much over them?” I can only answer this for my own situation: When Mrs. Bendover told FW that she would not leave her husband for him he became enraged, and took it out on me. Why? I think because I made it clear that I was already done with his bs and had disconnected physically, emotionally, socially, and imminently financially. She, on the other hand, still opened all of her orifices, pretended she didn’t want his money (he believed her), claimed to love him (not enough to leave her husband but still), and by that time he had given her so much control over our family practice that our experienced employees jumped ship and he couldn’t function without her. So what was he going to do? Flame out at her, or me? If my FW was going to kill anyone over his dumbass decisions and subsequent losses, it would have been me because I was a lot less valuable to him than she was.
“How many of these cases just result in a quiet disappearance?” See Shelly Miscavige. Oops wait – you can’t because nobody has seen her for 18 years.
PS – I want to make clear that my FW never threatened or tried to kill me, disappear me, or harm me physically in any way. JIC my comments could be misconstrued
You wonder about accidents. Like boating accidents where the wife accidentally falls overboard. Or the “suicide” of someone. Or Ivana Trump (the first wife) accidental death. You wonder. You wonder about cheater RFK’s first wife suicide.
https://people.com/ask-not-maureen-callahan-mary-richardson-kennedy-rfk-jr-exclusive-8667460y
Seems that in many cases, alarmingly, the chump faces the highest risk. The OW probably has to start watching out once a replacement for her is waiting in the wings.
Oh I feel for Megan. We know what it’s like to be floored by the absolute betrayal. I saw people posting ‘I hope she takes him for all he’s got’ – nope! I hope she gets a great settlement which acknowledges her time, intelligence and effort in the contribution to this shitbag’s success! He didn’t get where he is without her. She’s not gonna ‘take’ she’s gonna walk away with what she is WORTH!
The way he immediately ducked down behind the seats without a backward glance to Cabot should tell her how important she is in his life. Fuck buddy, you’re just an ego massaging machine. Hope the Coldplay tickets were worth it to totally annihilate your husband and kids.
I hope Megan finds her way to Chump lady and realises she was too good for Andy Handy. Onto to happy Fuckwit-free life!
Absolutely. I feel for her, and her children. I hope they one day succeed in finding their feet after this devastating, horrible and public event.
I hope she is able to successfully economically recover everything that is rightfully hers.
“She’s not gonna ‘take’ she’s gonna walk away with what she is WORTH!”
“Hear, hear!”
I get tired of the phrase “take him for all he’s got, as if it is all his”. I get tired of men whining she took half my money, no she took her part. If she got a bit more money then it is more than likely you have the bigger paycheck and it is being equitably dissolved. Same goes for if the man gets more.
Most of us get left in poverty, but if there is money then it belongs to both not just one. Barring pre-nups.
I read somewhere that he resigned today. Good. Try to eph up someone else’s life with your lies/cheating, don’t be surprised when it whips around and cuts your head off.
Yes, multiple outlets report today that he has now resigned.
“He didn’t get where he is without her.” Bingo Bango Bongo!! She’s not taking half of his assets, she is taking HER HALF of THEIR assets. Thank you, Kate, for pointing this out.
Absolutely! My FW nets £4.5.k per month whilst living in her house and whining that he’s ‘broke’ 🙄. His narrative is that I am fleecing him after 37 years. I always worker harder, longer, sharper, with more care and kindness. But he thinks I’m taking what isn’t mine. Lol. She’ll be skint in no time when his next financial fuck up comes!
The beauty of AI is we can now ask it to create a psychopath’s response to getting caught. In many cases it will be a better response than the one they gave us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUFe28a-WQ8
Funny vid. I had to look up “gooner”. I still don’t know what it is because I refuse to look up “edging”.
I was H.R. at Cheaty McLiarfaces company. I received multiple complaints that Cheaty was showing favoritism to various young females over the years. He had me convinced that it was just fatherly admiration for jobs well done and jealousy on the part of the complaining employees. Well, no. It was a legal liability in the making and worse, demoralizing behavior that negativly impacted other employees. Somedays I am so disappointed with myself.
Sadly, “the other (often older) employees who complain about sexual favoritism are just jealous” is a very common trope as well. Being accused of this was one of my greatest fears while I was getting bullied by our then-CEO’s alleged (much younger) schmoopie.
I do think the narrative is changing. I hear and see “cake eating” and “chump” as a comment now where a few years ago it was not part of the online language. There are still so many who are shocked by the shear joy chumps are displaying over this. To see someone who has what would be considered a perfect life, great job, beautiful and smart wife, perfect family and home life, show such entitlement and get busted in such a public way is both gratifying and heartening. It was truly a LOL moment. Don’t ya just love karma when its served hot.
Since this happened, I have seen a couple of jumbotron controllers ask if they were a real couple when they spotted someone canoodling. I wonder if it will become a thing with them, ousting cheaters, since this time got so much publicity and public attention. Any publicity is good even bad publicity?
I didn’t read a lick of American news while I was on vacation and wondered why everybody kept meming about a Coldplay concert. Now I know why!
I don’t know what pamphlets they hand out to train Fuckits-I doubt there was a sidebar on “don’t take your sidepiece to any place with a Jumbotron or live coverage.”
The fact that it’s the HR director? Priceless.
I see those pics and remember the parody news bit during the Monica Lewinsky thing strange aeons ago-“this is how you hug your wife…and THIS is how you hug your girlfriend!”