If you ask a woman from the office out, you’re toast.
If you treat her exactly as you would a male coworker-you’re toast.
It’s like being under artillery fire. Anywhere you run, including standing still, can get you killed.
I hope so.
Office romances are bad news because when (not if) they go bad they make the office a horror show as each wants to cause problems for the other.
People take sides and the smart, or rather the actually productive people, head for the door with all due speed.
Nothin can kill a productive department faster then a pair of idiots thinking with their gonads.
Never, ever get involved with a woman at your workplace.
It will only end in disaster for the man.
The woman is never worth the amount of loss which will inevitably come forth.
Why risk it. If you are male and have a small business just hire other straight men. No problem and no sexual harassment litigation.
This propaganda article paints Cuomo as merely a romantic and his opponents (and victims) as heartless prudes.
smart men knowmthe answer is yes
It’s gone much further, and worse, than that. Lately in engineering a man can not even have a professional disagreement with a woman, even on a technical matter, without being called a sexist oppressor. Such a disagreement, with the man keeping strictly to facts and refraining from insults or anything remotely appearing as such, is taken as a personal attack. In the current age when “ logic and reason is the perpetuation of white cishetero patriarchy,” I’m glad I’m retired. I would like to work a few more years, but the current minefield Is not worth it.
Don’t have yer honey where you make yer money.
We technically violated the UCMJ article against the fraternization with other commissioned officers of a different rank. My wife out ranked me for about six months until I was promoted.
We both had the same boss who counseled us against the relationship. But then we got married and he attended our wedding. Things were a little more relaxed back then it seemed.
49 years later we are still happily married.
Don't dip your pen in company ink.
I remember in 1980 one of the managers, where I worked (a major defense contractor), telling me to, “Check out the one I just hired.” I did, and we were married 5 years later.
It is unless she wants you to.
How would you know unless you ask?
What, you can't read a woman's mind? What's wrong with you? /s
Seems to me that they are just trying to ruin the “happy hunting grounds” for the younger fellas. How are these young guys supposed to learn all about how some woman will ruin their life?
Anytime you put men and women together, romance is inevitable (even today). The Office is no different.
Obviously some Office romances DO have a happy ending. But on average, it’s probably not the smart thing to do. Same thing goes with dating a customer, or someone who works for a customer. There are enough people there that office romances should be avoided—but it’s impossible to stop them.
In this era, engaging in office romances is the surest way to bring trouble. What happens when that romance hits the skids?
The best and smartest way to interact with females in the workplace is at an absolute minimum, employing the maximum of cold professionalism at all times. Never, ever find yourself in a situation in which you’re alone with one. Always have the door open and ensure you’re in view and earshot of potential witnesses.
The office romance is a no-go zone nowadays. Engage at your own peril.
So much for Greg Giangrande’s career. Someone will produce some piece of elementary school art that has a cryptosexist or cryptoracist theme that his mom once hung on her fridge.
I hope so. My ex (while we were still married) had a one night stand on an office floor with a work skank.
It was never a good idea.