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All good points. Work from home isn’t helping us any either. People typically meet their partners at work.
by cush 1y ago
All good points. Work from home isn’t helping us any either. People typically meet their partners at work.
- ctoth 1y agoWhat 1970s office have you been working at where this is true?
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoIt couldn't be more obvious and intuitive that the people you're around for half your waking time would be one of the bigger sources of potential partners, and also just friends/acquaintances where a partner comes from the social networks thusly formed.
- cush 1y agoThe one that exists in reality
- iamacyborg 1y ago> People typically meet their partners at work. That seems unlikely. Genuinely curious if there’s something I’m missing here.
- notahacker 1y agoThis paper suggests meeting people directly or indirectly via work was second to meeting through friends around the turn of the century, though there was a wide spread of how people met so it only amounted to a fifth of couples. Then online took over.... https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disinterm...
- exe34 1y agoit's for attractive people. for the rest of us it's a quick trip to HR.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoYou meet people at work, you don't proposition them at work.
- fruitworks 1y agoI don't think your distinction matters at all. If you're attractive and your advances are well recieved, you will not get reported to HR. Vice versa.
- overfeed 1y agoFrom the HR training i got from many places, harassment is what gets you in trouble with HR i.e. persisting after your advances have been rejected. Politely shooting your shot is fine, unless the target reports to you.
- woooooo 1y agoYou're missing the distinction. I met my wife at work but any and all propositioning happened outside the office, and not at office social events either.
- exe34 1y agoand how did you get access to her outside the office for this propositioning?
- platevoltage 1y agoMost of my working life I've worked with grizzled old dudes. I think thats the case for a lot of other men too.
- giardini 1y ago"Grizzled old dudes" often make good husbands and they have sufficient income and lifestyle to support a family.
- fennecbutt 1y agoNot everyone is straight either
- platevoltage 1y agoYou’re kidding, really?
- TrnsltLife 1y agoDating at work has almost become an incest level taboo.