Spending company money on tickets for entertainment events supposedly to reward employees or schmooze clients or suppliers is often considered legitimate business. But to do so as CEO for dating a workplace subordinate is asking for trouble.

Actually, there are ethics rules on those types of gifts.

And yet the higher up in a company, the more likely any ethics rules are to be more grossly violated with impunity for longer periods.

And if it’s the use of gifts there for the salespeople to use to generate or retain business, it’s often not taken very seriously if the persons are big rainmakers for sales or are dealmakers in terms of raising money or acquisitions or dispositions.