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Workplace romance is a staple of TV shows, and not that uncommon in real life, either.
Love across the cubicle walls is pretty commonplace, but you may not want to hold out for your co-worker sweetheart to put a ring on it.
A just-in-time for Valentine’s Day survey from jobs website CareerBuilder finds that 39 percent of workers have dated a co-worker at least once over the course of their career.
Still, only 30 percent of those who had dated a co-worker said the romance led to marriage.
The online survey of more than 4,000 workers was conducted by Harris Interactive in November.
The survey also found that most co-workers had dated a peer, but three in 10 admitted to dating their boss or someone else above them in the hierarchy.
Most people were open about their office romance, but a substantial minority – 35 percent – said they’d kept their romance confidential.
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4 in 10? Would that be equivalent to 2 in 5? or maybe 8 in 20?
There is an old saying... Don't sh!t where you work. It has some merit...
The wife asked me if I would ever marry again if she were to die. I said "Maybe, I'm still fairly young". She asked, "You wouldn't sleep in our bed would you?" I said, "I'd change the mattress, but a bed is a bed." She then questioned, "Well what about the new golf clubs I got you? You wouldn't let her use those would you?" I said, "No, she has her own."
4 in 10? Would that be equivalent to 2 in 5? or maybe 8 in 20?
There is an old saying... Don't poop where you work. It has some merit...
I got fired from my first job for inserting my finger in a pickle slicer. She didn't even get a reprimand!
I have had 3 office romances so far, and i can honestly say they all went down in flames. On the bright side the sex was good. On the bad side one of them did steal my car and it was a pain in the ass to get back. :(
It really depends on the size of the outfit and the situation. Dating someone from another division of a 500 person office, is a very different thing than dating your boss or a peer on your team.
I think it is reasonable if you can avoid the person, if the relationship ends.
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Had a couple. Still on good terms with both of them.
Do you ever wonder why your coffee tastes "funny"?
So have I.One lasted 12 years and the this one isi going on 18 years.We haven't worked at the phone company for 13 years but are still together.We had quite a few employees date and get married, who are still married.Those who had romances there made sure to show up on time,not over extend their breaks and lunches and worked harder because we knew that we were under the microscope.I had a district manager whose wife worked in another office.They are still together after 40 years.
Sorry Sirlafalot, coffee tastes fine. I moved out of the state a few years ago (company downsized). Still talk with them from time to time....both very nice women...
I married my work GF and she became the VP. Later I had to fire the VP without loosing my wife. Took several years to make a soft landing. I would not recommend such complications to anyone.
Not kosher at most places of employment and that attitude is the right one to exercise for all involved, as even the company is involved.
I never told this story before, but when I was working and moving very fast for State Farm Insurance, my boss hired this girl to assist me in my work and I was upset that she didn't know anything.
My boss told me I had to teach her everything I was taught within a short amount of time and I was not looking forward to it at all.
Towards the middle of the week or so, the girl kept asking me out for dinner but I declined each time because I was already dating someone else. Finally, after weeks I said yes, so we went to this korean restaurant and she said I had to drink.
Well, we were buzzed and then decided to go to this kareoke place and sing away, when she did some crazy stuff...
Long story short, I felt bad and terrible and no I'm not mental or gay or anything, it's just I felt bad for not being able to control her crazy ways. Anyways, we moved on and I moved and she ended up becoming a teacher overseas... Ugh...
...And then another time this married woman ... ohhhhh nevermind... I'm just very picky..
When my wife and I work together, she is MS Jones & I am MR Smith. That way she knows I am speaking to the "position" & not to my wife. And she is taking orders from her "boss" not her husband.
In the engineering business not a lot of women, a lot of men; however most of the guys are settled not a big chance of romance at work.
I've had a few, and none of them worked out... long-term... but I'd still do it again.
I married one of my office romances.
This is one time I wish I wasn't part of the majority.
Going out on the 14th with my office love.
I worked at a place where a dingbat "slept" her way up the corporate ladder. In 5 years she went from computer programmer trainee to supervisor, then manager, then district manager, then VP. It was common knowledge, and she made no effort to hide it.
A few years ago, my company, (a biotech firm) fired a young woman who slept with my BOSS'S BOSS. He was married, she was not. They both were ready to leave for their daily "luncheon" one afternoon when they were summoned into the personnel office. The laboratory director was there waiting for them. HE came back to his desk, SHE didn't......
For nine months the rest of us worked with a red faced, suddenly reticent PhD chemist who tip toed around us as though we were mines in an Afghan field. Then one morning the brass announced that he "resigned", over "creative differences" on what direction our company was to go.
It's true what a previous poster said. My father always said this to me as well: no smart dog sh1ts where he has to sleep. I've seen THREE OTHER office hook ups that crashed and burned in a similar way.
Does having a fling in the supply closet constitute office romance?
I'm still with a co-worker for the past three years and we live together. I'm at a different job now. The relationship is total bull@!$%# if you want me to be honest. i would never, never date another co-worker every again. My advice to you is to stay away from office romance.....and don't fall in-love with a co-worker like i did. It will take you down.
Halo17,If your relationship is BS,then why are you still in it?Life is short and you must pick your battles.A bad relationship is not a good battle to fight.
Happily married almost 9 years to my office romance. Computer guys are hot!
Nerds rule!
I've been happily married to my office romance for over 20 years.