{"id":2716,"date":"2010-08-20T03:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2010-08-17T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:39:55","slug":"the-2-billion-dollar-elicit-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/the-2-billion-dollar-elicit-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2 Billion Dollar Elicit Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Well, it happened again.\u00a0 The all too familiar story of a highly-placed CEO having sex with an employee, trying to cover it up, getting sued and harassed, threatened, revealed, then fired.\u00a0 The new CEO\u2019s name is not important.\u00a0 He\u2019s been fired from HP because his sexual desire couldn\u2019t be controlled.\u00a0 And that sexual indiscretion that so many people think is personal, and private, and nobody\u2019s business but my own has devalued the HP stock a little over $2 billion since the controversy, strife, and ultimate firing was revealed.<\/p>\n

And what does this CEO get? A 40-plus million dollar severance package just so he\u2019ll agree not to sue HP for wrongful termination.<\/p>\n

As a guy who has been fired, I am careful to acknowledge that we don\u2019t know the whole story on either side of the equation.\u00a0 But what we are reminded of is the human condition. That when a man\u2019s desire, whoever it is, whether it be HP, a football-player, or a politician; when that man\u2019s desire has turned toward someone other than his spouse, the cost is sometimes beyond measure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is my shout-out to my brothers out there.\u00a0 The men who want to be man-up men, who make promises and keep them, who have accepted the responsibility of manhood, by wooing, wowing, and winning a good woman, who have embraced enthusiastically the privilege of fatherhood by bringing children into this world; it\u2019s to you my brothers that I say, \u201cKeep your passion focused on your wife.\u00a0 Find your desire in her.\u00a0 And when that can\u2019t happen because of conflict or lack of intimate communication find a way to fix it.\u00a0 Do not, under any circumstances allow your attention and affection to drift<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Men, we live in a culture where we\u2019re under attack.\u00a0 The buffoonication of our manhood is a real deal.\u00a0 But you and I can push back against the pressures and the stereotypical nature and cynicism of our present culture.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be men, and let\u2019s start at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it happened again.\u00a0 The all too familiar story of a highly-placed CEO having sex with an employee, trying to cover it up, getting sued and harassed, threatened, revealed, then fired.\u00a0 The new CEO\u2019s name is not important.\u00a0 He\u2019s been fired from HP because his sexual desire couldn\u2019t be controlled.\u00a0 And that sexual indiscretion that … Continue reading “The 2 Billion Dollar Elicit Affair”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}