I agree with all of the statements on friends, becoming friends with coworkers is inevitable when working closely together.
Where I have a differing opinion is specifically significant others being direct supervisors/subordinates, in my experience that is when it quickly devolves into "well, my partner didn't handle that right but I know their intentions are good because I know them best, so I'll let it slide this time."
I also wanted to respond to a specific part of your post (I hope that's okay, I don't want it to come across as me calling out! I just wanted to make clear that I am replying to a specific section)
With this I have always had the question, why can we not just simply promote other members of the community, friendship or relationship status notwithstanding? Why does it need to be someone's friend or s/o or family member? I've always wanted to ask this because if it's "well, because that's my friend/partner/sister/brother/etc and I know they'd be a good admin!" that could pretty easily be bias, you know? I hope this doesn't come across as I'm demanding answers of you or your post :( I just meant that your point is one I see a lot in regard to this kind of thing and I have thoughts on it!gringo wrote:I just feel like it’s worth giving a chance because we wanted more administration active, and WH has a tiny pool of people, and it’s being made even tinier by having these other restrictions.
Anyways I just wanted to add that on, like I said I'm all for whatever's decided but I think you'd pretty quickly re-raise the issues of ganging up and cliques with allowing things like that on the team openly, particularly with s/o