THE damage to a company and its employees that can arise from an employee having an affair with a member of management has to be experienced to be understood.

Any sensible company would sack both parties on the spot. At the FA it's two down, two to go.

Such affairs always impact on the company and its employees even if only when employees find it necessary to lie through their teeth to a wronged wife, husband or partner.

Mr N Eke (LET, July 31) has obviously never been put in that situation.

At a company function I was asked how I had enjoyed a weekend course I had never been on. Fortunately I thought quick enough not to betray by look on word that it wasn't me the spouse had spent the weekend with.

I won't tell you what I said to the spouse next day. I resisted the temptation to reduce my workload and increase my pay not least because of the effect that would have had on other employees.

Moral blackmail all round.

I have sympathy for Palios, Sven and the young lady. I have some (small) sympathy for Colin Gibson caught up by loyalty, moral blackmail and collateral damage, who has offered to resign. Such affairs are never private Mr Eke.

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