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Indeed they do. People always did. No "no dating colleauges" rule will prevent colleagues from developing crushes and dating each other.
by est31 6y ago
Indeed they do. People always did. No "no dating colleauges" rule will prevent colleagues from developing crushes and dating each other.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoTruly. Your described scenario is how I met my partner of nearly six years.
- gowld 6y agoThe founders of 3 of the top 4 US companies (by market cap), married or had a long-term dating relationship with a subordinate employee. The 4th married a student he met while giving a guest lecture and then asked on a date in the parking lot afterward. The 5th and 6th were dating their spouses before founding their companies. The 7th and 8th were over 100 years ago so the history is too hard for me to track.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoI'm not sure what you're implying, but it doesn't seem positive. Forgive me if I'm mis-interpreting things. We were in separate departments and hierarchy was not an issue. We've been together so long for love, nothing else...
- nitrogen 6y agoThe way I read it is that the rule doesn't always reflect 100% of reality.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoI think I can see your interpretation, but others seem to have read it the way I did and decided not to believe me, so I'm not sure where it falls. Just tried to insert a happy comment into the chain. Oh well :/
- astatine 6y agoSo, you are #1,2 or 3?
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago> No "no dating colleauges" rule will prevent colleagues from developing crushes and dating each other. Or prevent employees from being harassed who just want to work w/o getting hit on for the bazillionth time.
- shekelstein45 6y agoAt least you won't need to worry about the possibility of a follow-up, with that attitude.
- est31 6y agoA workplace where people only want to work instead of being comfortable enough to make new connections (of any kind) is a bad workplace. You should be able to make new friends, increase your network, and have a good time collaborating. I feel sorry for anyone who is in such an environment, especially when they are being approached constantly in bad ways on top of it (let alone harassed). So many things have gone wrong then. The workplace is still a workplace, not a dating machine, so people need to adjust their behaviors to the environment. Most people can manage to do this.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago> The workplace is still a workplace, not a dating machine, so people need to adjust their behaviors to the environment. Most people can manage to do this. Presently, women can expect mistreatment in their workspace. This has an unbroken reality for generations. While women are living with that reality, this very minute, it's not clear that workplace friendships are in any meaningful danger.
- jschwartzi 6y agoThose rules are mainly to provide grounds for firing people that let their romantic relationships cause problems at work.