You yourself are the biggest liability to the organization. People like you is how we ended up in this HR power mad world to begin with.
You don't need to laborousoly explain to me office romance, yet another obvious power trip.
These policies can hypothetically make sense, sure. You want to talk about a power imbalance, contemplate by whom and how these things are enforced and whether false positives are possible.
Are we dealing with subjective or objective things? And sweetness, this is a rhetorical question, I know your answer. I'll ask another one, have you yourself been in many successful relationships? Any?
Tell me, are you the HR lady human person in this situation or just some random busybody?
Is this not a whole profession that supposedly requires training?
> If a boss and a subordinate truly fall in love and want to live a life together more than anything else, then they can try to find alternative roles in the organization where one person in the relationship doesn't report to each other.
Gee, thanks for your permission, and what and who are you in all of this? Is this point really flying over your head? Suppose they, as human people, are in this process of figuring it all out.
Or that they aren't a couple at all and you misread.
And there you go and parachute in with your nonsense and force the issue for them on explicitly your personal terms, not some company policy.
Hero vigilantly rescuing the office from these ne'er-do-wells who no doubt are bad immoral people who no doubt also charge personal expenses to the work account and stole your lunch probably.