| dating at work
Posted: 6/5/2005 10:59:29 AM | Been there, done that. Won't ever do it again.
I've learned to keep my personal life separate from the office.
If it doesn't work out, you have to see your ex every day at work.
If it does, you end up seeing too much of each other and bringing your personal life to work. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/5/2005 12:09:03 PM | Like someone else here. Only guys at my work. [snif]
I figure you can get a better picture of someone's character with you work with them. Easier to tell if it could have potential. I guess school mates would be in similar boat. Out side of work/school/club/whatever you have to find all that behaviour stuff while dating.
But yeah, there is potential of it going horribly wrong. I may be naive but I'd like to think that we're both adults and that we'd behave like one. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/6/2005 7:15:04 PM | Haven't done it here...yet...It does happen all the time at my work though! | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/6/2005 7:27:55 PM | | big #1 rule,,no dating anyone from work! | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/6/2005 8:09:45 PM | 2000 guys at my work, and they are all off-limits.
Of course, the fact that they are all working toward a release date might have something to do with that. And nobody messes with the chaplain. Safe all around.
Shannon | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/6/2005 9:33:41 PM | Just a bit of advice,
“Don’t get your meat where you get your bread…
VP | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/6/2005 9:56:07 PM | | I agree with Gym, don't shit where you eat. I've had 2 experiences dating women at work; one I still work with, and the other is my ex wife! The one I still work with was just friends for the longest-she wanted to be with me, but I thought that we had nothing in common. She is very annoying and goes through spurts of just calling me non-stop! The good thing is, we had sex once and it didn't turn any uglier after that. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/12/2005 8:33:01 AM | ive done it twice 1 i dont talk to any more the other i still do | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/12/2005 8:34:36 AM | oh yeah i dated my ex too-we worked together-pretty bad when u can forget yourex husband like that | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/12/2005 4:06:12 PM | Yeah I've done it and it was pretty cool. It's cool thing going from
the bed to office and then back to bed again. I got lucky there
was no drama........it was all good. The trippy thing is after I broke
it off she ended up with my boss and living with him for a few months.
Would I do it again?.............Yeah | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/12/2005 6:53:14 PM | | Simple phrase, people: Never shit where you eat. (That's not say I haven't done it..LOL) | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/13/2005 7:17:57 AM | There are some fields where you date pretty much only others in the same field. Right now I'm working for Verizon....corporate hell on earth. No dating here at all for me, I hate everyone.
But before, in that other life...In show-biz, you date folks in show-biz. I'm not talking about performers, mostly the thousands of techs and production folks. It's a whole lifestyle thing, so it's tough to get 'norms' who can relate. Plus there are just so many attractive, like-minded folks around and you're allways thrust into exciting and interesting situations. It makes for a very conducive environment for dating. Not even mentioning all the one-nighters and 'occasional' situations.
In a nut shell, it just depends on where you work. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:33:55 AM | | Nope. Not for me. I don't date anyone from the dark side. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/13/2005 10:10:19 AM | didn't anyone ever here that "you don't s*#t where you eat?" | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/13/2005 10:19:38 AM | @ djama umm....yeah...I think meqwriter just said that......
dating at work....nope never again.....seeing as everytime I see him memories come flooding back...and they're not all good... | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/13/2005 5:39:09 PM | I'd have to vote a big "NO" to this one.
Don't get me wrong, it can definitely have it's upsides. As others have pointed out, you can really learn a lot about a person by working with them, and prolonged exposure to the attractive....erm, well...attracts. Lunch breaks can be much more entertaining as well!
Down sides: a lot of people put up a front for work to hide how dispicable a person they really are. By the time you find this out, it may already be too late. Next thing you know, you're spending a minimum of 8 hours a day around a person you either despise, or despises you. Not good! At best, you're stuck spending that time with a person you like...but really don't want to spend THAT much time with. What's the fun of coming home to somebody when you've already been with them all day long? And the day before...and there's tomorrow of course...Worst case, things go south and either you and/or your company gets sued and nobody wants that.
The moral of the story: Don't wet your own nest. You'll just have to sleep in it. Some diversions can simply be too tempting to pass up, but know what you're (potentially) getting yourself into and ask yourself: is it worth it? | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/13/2005 10:09:32 PM | Grrrrr...A good ol' fashioned girl...HB you rock. I know someone who would apply for his job when he gets fired. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/14/2005 3:25:23 PM | Don't do it...
trust me on this one.
when you worry too much about losing something, you've already lost it. For your worry prevents you from receiving any value out of whatever you're so worried about losing. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 6/17/2005 3:38:29 PM | No Way!!!
You're just asking for trouble. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 7/4/2005 6:10:28 PM | No No NO!!!!!
I did this once. Work is really good about it- they prefer if you let them know so that you do not end up working in the same department. For me, we ended ok, but it is sometimes hard to see him around. He's a real cutie. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 7/4/2005 7:02:34 PM | | I don't think "poking the payroll" is a good idea. But then again, I have always been the boss. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 7/5/2005 8:03:54 AM | In the past, I have been involved with ladies from work, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
I am an officer in the reserves and a number of years ago, use to spend my summers on training positings. And of course, there were plenty of fellow female officers to be involved with.
But it was never with anyone who directly worked with me or for me. It was like your basic summer fling, and next summer you either picked up where you left off, or just carried on. Everyone kinda followed the same rules.
The civilain side of life is different though. I found it very hard to go to work and have to deal with an ex-girlfriend, every day. So I have decided never to do it again.
It's easier now that I am a supervisor and would never want to compromise my position by dating someone who works for me. | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 11/7/2005 10:53:19 PM | | Oh, I've done this several times with no real consequences. I find that if you both treat each other fair, then the break up is still friendly, so no problems. I even had an 'ex' who got a job where I worked, AFTER we were already split up, and we worked side by side and were sociable about it. (Of course it was weird to the people at work who made jokes about him being a 'stalker', but I couldn't tell him where he was allowed to work!) | |
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| dating at work
Posted: 11/7/2005 11:44:44 PM | Nothing wrong with dating at
work as long as your hanging-out
as friends.
I dated a lady from work for
2 years. We moved in together
after that.
The problem was we would work
almost side by side together
and at the end of the day we'd
get home from work and all
she would do is gripe about work.
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| dating at work
Posted: 11/8/2005 6:32:16 AM | | I work almost exclusively with men...so dating at work would probably be a bad idea. | |
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