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It did surprise me when I did a mandatory harassment course at an American company, and one of the sections explained that if you have a relationship with a fellow employee then you need to inform HR. Thank goodness this policy didn't exist at companies I worked 15-20 years ago!

It's strange though, so many people have met their life partners at work and this must put a lot of people off even asking someone at work for a drink. No wonder people are turning to things like Tinder these days.
 
Em3bbs said:
It did surprise me when I did a mandatory harassment course at an American company, and one of the sections explained that if you have a relationship with a fellow employee then you need to inform HR. Thank goodness this policy didn't exist at companies I worked 15-20 years ago!

It's strange though, so many people have met their life partners at work and this must put a lot of people off even asking someone at work for a drink. No wonder people are turning to things like Tinder these days.
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Lolwut?

If you are dating someone you work with all I can say is that if it ends in a mess it will also ruin your work.

Don't **** where you eat springs to mind.

After all there are 6 billion people out there why limit yourself to the few hundred at best you know at work?

I imagine those that did find love at work tend to be inept at dating or socialising. It's also related a bit with Stockholm syndrome where if you spend enough time with a bunch of people you end up making strong bonds with some of them.

Stick 50 random people in a house together and see what happens like big brother, etc.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Lolwut?

If you are dating someone you work with all I can say is that if it ends in a mess it will also ruin your work.

Don't **** where you eat springs to mind.

After all there are 6 billion people out there why limit yourself to the few hundred at best you know at work?

I imagine those that did find love at work tend to be inept at dating or socialising. It's also related a bit with Stockholm syndrome where if you spend enough time with a bunch of people you end up making strong bonds with some of them.

Stick 50 random people in a house together and see what happens like big brother, etc.
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When groups of Men and Women spend time together some of them will find each other mutually attractive, human nature then takes it's course and people don't always make the smartest decisions. This should just be expected really. In whatever situation you put groups of men and women in over a long period of time relationships will develop.
 
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I do wonder why these (consensual) relationships are considered to be unacceptable these days? In my experience, "relationships" between work colleagues are far from unusual - it is almost the norm on business trips ;)
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Standard corporate policy is not to have family members or people in a relationship in the same team/reporting chain to prevent any suspicions/allegations of nepotism. Probably totally forbidden for CEOs as everyone else in the company effectively reports to them.
 
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We need pics please, she could be a 10/10, besides hes loaded most likely has £50+ million in the bank.

What does it matter he slept with someone he works with.
 
For amount of money he's being paid you'd think he was smart enough to keep his dick in his pants...

Obviously not. Just get more girls bro ur a CEO not hard to find.
 
You can't help who you fall for.
If it's a colleague then so what, why should you put your life on hold for your job.
We are more important than our jobs.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Lolwut?

If you are dating someone you work with all I can say is that if it ends in a mess it will also ruin your work.

Don't **** where you eat springs to mind..
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While agree so far as that I wouldn't do it myself, I know 5 colleagues who dated, married and have started families with other people in the office.
 
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While agree so far as that I wouldn't do it myself, I know 5 colleagues who dated, married and have started families with other people in the office.
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so do I. But why take the risk of ruining your work life when there are more options available outside of work?

Like I said before it's likely folk who were terrible at dating outside of work or trying to catch someone higher up the ladder as it's easy to know who earns what/more within the workplace. It's a far easier way for gold diggers to catch their prey. After all it's usually women who have the majority of choice available regardless of what they look like.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Lolwut?

If you are dating someone you work with all I can say is that if it ends in a mess it will also ruin your work.

Don't **** where you eat springs to mind.

After all there are 6 billion people out there why limit yourself to the few hundred at best you know at work?

I imagine those that did find love at work tend to be inept at dating or socialising. It's also related a bit with Stockholm syndrome where if you spend enough time with a bunch of people you end up making strong bonds with some of them.

Stick 50 random people in a house together and see what happens like big brother, etc.
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I get from your posts in general that you don't have much life experience, but believe it or not around 15-20 years ago people at work used to date quite regularly. Whilst I never had a long term relationship with a work colleague I did have quite a few dates/fun evenings with women from work, as well as women from outside work. Don't you work for a family business? I guess that might limit the options somewhat.
 
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so do I. But why take the risk of ruining your work life when there are more options available outside of work?

Like I said before it's likely folk who were terrible at dating outside of work or trying to catch someone higher up the ladder as it's easy to know who earns what/more within the workplace. It's a far easier way for gold diggers to catch their prey. After all it's usually women who have the majority of choice available regardless of what they look like.
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I take it you ascribe to the Alpha/Beta man concept then? :p

Actually most of these couples are both good looking and intelligent, only 1 I would call average. Nothing to do with being terrible at dating, you work with people day to day and you end up knowing them better than someone you are just dating.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Lolwut?

If you are dating someone you work with all I can say is that if it ends in a mess it will also ruin your work.

Don't **** where you eat springs to mind.

After all there are 6 billion people out there why limit yourself to the few hundred at best you know at work?

I imagine those that did find love at work tend to be inept at dating or socialising. It's also related a bit with Stockholm syndrome where if you spend enough time with a bunch of people you end up making strong bonds with some of them.

Stick 50 random people in a house together and see what happens like big brother, etc.
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It's because people spend a lot of their waking lives at work. You may socialise with those people at events, after hours, during lunch, etc, so it's likely to meet and get to know someone just from proximity and time spent together.

That's how people used to do it before Tindr, PoF, etc, and there's nothing wrong with a couple of single people getting together that way. However, if it involves affairs, bad breakups in the workplace, sexual harassment blowback, etc it's just easier to ban it, or let HR have an oversight before it becomes an issue.
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
I imagine those that did find love at work tend to be inept at dating or socialising. It's also related a bit with Stockholm syndrome where if you spend enough time with a bunch of people you end up making strong bonds with some of them.
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By strong bonds, I take you mean friendship?

I think it may be yourself that is inept at dating or socialising.
 
AHarvey said:
By strong bonds, I take you mean friendship?

I think it may be yourself that is inept at dating or socialising.
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lol - I take it you married at work or something to jump to that?

No i'm perfectly fine it's just that whenever I have seen folk who hook up at work it's usually folk who have struggled outside of work. Sure there will be some outliers to that but it's what I have seen.

By bonds I mean both friendship and other relationships. It's because of simply the amount of time you spend with someone at work. Spend 40 hours a week at work for instance. Compare that with 2-3 hours on a date every few days or weeks.

It's easy to actually start a relationship at work. So it's easy pickings. Therefore people that aren't as sociable or inept at dating tend to do better within the workplace because it's easy mode. It's why I related it to Stockholm syndrome earlier.
 
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