Anymore at the time the affair began. I hadn't even remembered that. If your extreme take (IMO) on this becomes the norm, you have us well on our way to outlawing relationships with certain age gaps.

Absolutely freaking not. I thought this without recalling she'd resigned. Lauer promised her nothing and made clear what he wanted. If naive young girl was starry eyed and decided certain benefits were implied, too bad for her if that didn't turn out to be. You can think Lauer is a scumbag for it, but I would not expect her to be able to sue anyone over this, and I would certainly not expect Lauer to face anything remotely criminal.

What companies choose to do about it is up to them. I'm not suggesting that an environment like Uber was cool. I feel exactly the opposite. But this is a line that we've been walking since women entered the workforce full bore. My generation, '84 grad, was really the first. And my first orientation included all the new challenges of pens in company ink. The line we have to work is a fact of life, where ever men and women coexist, and never more than where hierarchies exist.

This specific case is a million miles away from Uber. It is the sort of thing that will happen, and I know of few companies that would fire an old guy for starting up with a younger woman who'd just resigned. And by few, I mean none. If she was naive, sorry, but this is how youngsters become less naive.