LoveLace Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Well gosh, I haven't even seen him since posting about my crush, cuz we just haven't worked on the same days...until today...this morning I pretended harcore not to see him, even though he walked by me a dozen times...then I was sitting at a desk doing something, and he walked over and leaned on the desk right in front of me; I looked up to see him looking right at my picture badge (I'm pretty sure he knows my 1st name so I don't know if he wanted to see my last name or what)...I smiled and said hi how are you? Then he started telling me something funny about a patient and was laughing...he isn't known to randomly just walk up and tell me that stuff...and there were like 6 other people around but he wasn't telling them...just me...then at one point he was walking behind me with a surgical mask on, and I turned around to see who it was, smiled again and said "Hi!"...he probably thinks that's all I know how to say. We eyed each other a couple other times...then it got busy and we didn't cross paths all day. Before clocking out I was chatting with a nurse and he happened to walk into the room where the OR doors are...he kept walking and went in through the doors. Me and the nurse walked to the time clock together, which is way on the other side of the unit. When we reached that area, here he came out of the other side of the OR...as though he just walked in a circle...he had seen me standing there with my purse earlier, and as I started to walk with the nurse, I think I saw him look back and obviously, knew I was going to the time clock...okay so maybe that was just pure coincidence, but it's never happened before...even then, all I could do was give him a little smile...I couldn't even get "bye have a good day!" out of my mouth. There is party for a retiring Dr. tomorrow night, but I can't find anyone else I know that's going...no nurse or techs, it appears, plan to be there...so if it's just all Doctors, I'd have no one to talk to...damn! It would be a great social opportunity and for him to see me in something other than GREEN scrubs, for once! So does it sound like he's at least a little intrigued by me...or what?
Isolde Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Doctors are sexy. Meh, you have to show him more interest than this if you want to figure out what's on his mind.
Author LoveLace Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 Doctors are sexy. Meh, you have to show him more interest than this if you want to figure out what's on his mind. That's what i figured. It's just hard to do because I'm at work...I guess I'll try to initiate a conversation next time I have the chance. Sexy is right, when I turned and saw his blue eyes piercing out from over the face mask, ooohhhhh....guess I'll just try to open my mouth more and let words come out...but if anything I always smile at him when our eyes meet.
xpaperxcutx Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Sure doctors are sexy, but LL, isn't he like your boss? Don't you have any apprehensions that your work life might end up becoming a soap opera? I've seen enough of those to warrant you with a caution.
Art_Critic Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Didn't you just become a nurse ?... Why would you want to possibly tarnish your professional reputation at the hospital that you work in ? Your reputation will follow you in all levels of nursing.. Mixing work and dating doesn't mix.. except on TV shows.. IMO.. of course... Not wanting to poo poo anything but it just doesn't seem like the smart thing to be dating someone you work on a professional basis with.
Els Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 I'm not 100% sure about the USA but here, hospital organizational structures are nothing like office structures. Even though they're paid very much more, doctors aren't the 'bosses' of nurses, per se. They make absolutely no decisions regarding the promotion, firing, hiring, transfer, etc etc of nurses. The higher rank nurses and the admin department are the ones involved in that. In fact, the hospital admin always try to say that healthcare professionals on different teams are all equal. Why would it tarnish her reputation?
MissConduct Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Oooohhh I love office romances it definitely makes going to work all worthwhile! Too bad you can't find anyone to go with you to the going away party that would have been ideal. He definitely sounds interested, keep up the light flirting he'll get the hint eventually! I say totally go for it if the chance comes up, meeting someone at work can have a lot of benefits don't listen to those who question why you would want to get involved. It's obvious why you would, you like the guy. Duhhh!
Isolde Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Gosh, let LL enjoy her crush. Why jump on her like this? She's done nothing wrong, and I don't remember her saying he's the boss.
Author LoveLace Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 Proud to say AC, I will officially be a nurse in about 8 months! However, I'll have a graduate job elsewhere, becaues surgical nurses are only hired with years of experience. Therefore,I only have this job for 8 more months, maybe less. He knows I'm a nursing student and I'm pretty sure he's aware that I dont have much school left as well. And if he's my "boss", then I have like 40 bosses, because our staff is HUGE. When I say 40, that's anesthetic Dr's alone, between surgeons, nurses, techs it's probably a staff well over 100. That's just in the surgery center alone...it's well set a part from the rest of the hospital. I hear about people dating within the institution all the time, but not in a way that you know their business, aside from they are dating. Technically, the nurses are my bosses and we have 1 manager that oversees and is everyone's boss. Also he's technically part of the OR staff, and I am not. I'm in the pre-surgical staff and I have nothing to do with the OR, nor have I been in an operating room. So I'm not even around him for the bulk of what he does. In our situation, our Dr's and anesthecs are more like just co-workers. There are so many that run around us in circles, that it's hard to set them a part sometimes. In other words it's not exactly an "intimate" environment like a Dentist's office...it's always buzzing, fast-paced just like that ER show. SO being that I won't even be there in 8 months, he's cute, my age, and single, and actually known to ask out 1 other tech (long time ago)..something I didn't know about until recently, because they obviously must have kept it low-key like anyone would at work. But it didn't make it past 1 date. In fact she was standing right near us when he spoke to me today...but he didn't interact with her at all and I've never seen him do so....anyway, people always tell me I should go for guys that I have more in common with, who might have a similar lifestyle as me. I no longer feel connected at all with guys I meet in bars. I even have more fun socializing at work than I do at bars...though I'm one bust-a$$ worker, too...anyway if he asked me out we would obviously have to establish a "professional only" basis while at work. Where we work, it isn't as though we'd have time or place to go make out or something. But that's a far stretch considering all I can say to him is "hi" at this point. However if I started screwing all the anesthetics, that would be great grounds for a rep...
Author LoveLace Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 I do wonder why he so closely wanted to see my name badge...people yell "lovelace" all the time and he turns his head to see me when this happens...so I thought for sure he knows my name. Did he just want to verify? But here's the thing, i don't know if the girl he dated once knows what's going on. She MUST know because she has purposely mentioned his name around me a couple times and I refuse to discuss it with her. I always change the subject. I just wonder if HER or SOMEONE told him and he was just playin with me, or checking to make sure I was "Lovelace", the chick that likes him? I'm getting scared...
Charles1978 Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Certainly sounds like you are intrigued by him, that's for sure.
Author LoveLace Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 Certainly sounds like you are intrigued by him, that's for sure. I absolutely am. But he's also pretty mysterious to me and that alone makes things more interesting. Ya never know if I went out on a date with him and was surprisingly un-impressed. After all he asked out a girl 10 years younger than his 32, nothing wrong with that, but underneath the mystery he could be really dorky and immature or something. But man I hope not!
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