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It’s a bad idea to date at work regardless. Hardly anything worse than a breakup with someone you sit next to at work. The problems with making advances in the
by alphabettsy 5y ago
It’s a bad idea to date at work regardless. Hardly anything worse than a breakup with someone you sit next to at work.
The problems with making advances in the workplace are that it’s really not the place for it and if you’re going to do it you better be certain it’s in an appropriate way and that they feel comfortable rejecting your advances. Since those are hard things to be certain about it’s probably better to avoid it entirely at work.
- Invictus0 5y agoBlah blah blah. The data shows that nearly 1 in 4 couples met at work.
- alphabettsy 5y agoWhy are you being rude? I don’t see how that changes what I said. Taking some statistic about where people met doesn’t invalidate what I’ve said. Does it tell you if the 1/4 actually began by asking the other out during a meeting? I’ve dated someone at work, but our relationship started outside of work and we didn’t work in the same department.
- rowanG077 5y agoIt changes what you said because with your comment you are essentially invalidating one fourth of all relationships that exist. In a world where it's already hard enough to meet people.
- alphabettsy 5y agoI don’t understand how it invalidates any relationship. It can be true that’s it not a great idea to ask someone out at work in many circumstances and that many people first meet their partner at work.
- Invictus0 5y agoYou've got the wool pulled over your eyes. "Work" is just a social construct. "Coworkers" is just a euphemism for "human beings". We have a thing called flirting that allows people to signal attraction without grabbing each other's tits and ass. Let people love each other and forget the hail-corporate "work romance is bad for business" propaganda.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoThen how do hierarchical and time-demanding professions like medicine and law ever result in marriage? Is it your view that a surgeon doing 24-hour back-to-back shifts should remain celibate if he didn't find someone in his first semester at medical school?