irc333 Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 Ever work at a place where it seems every person was either married in a long term relationship with their co-workers? This place I work at, there must be 4 or 5 married/exclusive couples. I wonder how they circumvent the "peeing where you eat" issue?
Author irc333 Posted June 11, 2013 Author Posted June 11, 2013 This mentality that you need a gulf between you and another to make it work is new thinking. In ancient times you lived where you worked and guess what? Your wife lived and worked there too. GULF? LOL of Mexico..not sure I understand.
Emilia Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 Ever work at a place where it seems every person was either married in a long term relationship with their co-workers? This place I work at, there must be 4 or 5 married/exclusive couples. No, in my office probably about 95% are in LTRs or married but no-one is involved with colleagues. I think because they are extroverted they have no trouble meeting people so they don't need to revert to lazy convenience dating.
Author irc333 Posted June 11, 2013 Author Posted June 11, 2013 No, in my office probably about 95% are in LTRs or married but no-one is involved with colleagues. I think because they are extroverted they have no trouble meeting people so they don't need to revert to lazy convenience dating. Well, I guess being that it's a place and a small town has to do with it. You'd never see this kind of thing in a large city.
Emilia Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 Well, I guess being that it's a place and a small town has to do with it. You'd never see this kind of thing in a large city. Small town too probably. I've seen something similar in the suburbs when I briefly worked outside central London but it was also full of techies/introverts so it's not like they socialised much outside work. I work with very social people with large networks (sales) so for them to meet the opposite sex is not an issue.
phineas Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 Ever work at a place where it seems every person was either married in a long term relationship with their co-workers? This place I work at, there must be 4 or 5 married/exclusive couples. I wonder how they circumvent the "peeing where you eat" issue? My company actually has rules for this & yes there are a number of couples at work. The main rule is if they marry they find someone a different position in the company if they are in the same department. For me, i'll date someone from work if I don't have to see them every day. I will not just hook up with someone from work though even when they come onto me. I'd rather risk being friendzoned and known for being possibly gay or lame for not accepting an obvious come-on then known as the guy who had a ONS with a co-worker. And mark my words, that stuff does find a way into the grapevine. However, I need to spend some time with them in group situations preferably or as just friends for a bit so I can see what type of person they are. For some reason I cannot comprehend there are a lot of dic-teases at work. Even women my age. I've seen a lot of women lead guys on at work & had a few really dumb ones think just because i'm a nice guy at work i'm some kind of chump they can play games with or try to use because they think I make the "big bucks" when they realize they aren't as crafty as they thought they rage & act cray cray. So now if a woman shows interest I'm cautious.
StanMusial Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 It's not uncommon. I guess if girls get tired of dating broke mf'ers they know that at least this dork at the office has a job. LOL.
xxoo Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 People get workplace crushes which turn into workplace dating and workplace marriages. Better than workplace affairs--also rampant!
iris219 Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 There are several couples where I work; I can think of 6 couples off the top of my head, my bf and I being one of them! At first I thought it might be weird, but we love it. It makes work so much better having the person you love nearby. We eat lunch together, we take walks, and we get coffee when we have time. There are times we get so busy that we wouldn't see each other some days if it wasn't for work. We can also empathize with the work-related stress the other person is feeling. The only downside was that sometimes we found ourselves talking about nothing but work when we were home together, so we made a rule to not talk about work on the weekends or the evenings (which is hard to do at times so we will let ourselves talk about it for a short period of time and then it's a prohibited topic.)
phineas Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 The only downside in my opinion is expected lunches. I don't eat lunch or I eat it at my desk. I take my lunches when I want to also.
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