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Hmmm. Not sure that I could live with such a policy. Then again, I watched what a friend went through when the woman he was seeing and he had a falling out at home, it really made life in the workplace difficult because they had to see each other all day long despite the hurt feelings on both sides. It was not pretty... Just told Myself to only date women from OTHER parts of the building to be on the safe side.

Oddly enough,I found myself in "hot water" some years ago for rejecting the advances of two different women at work. I was single and a steady worker. Woman no 1 was in process of divorcing for the third time,had an unwed pregnant daughter at home,a son going to the military to avoid local lawmen,and her youngest met us at the curb carrying a full-size hunting knife.He was maybe 8?!I was taking her home from work because she had car trouble and chose to wait hours so that I would be the one to drive her all of maybe 5 miles. I declined her invitation to come inside and sped home. From then on she made sure to point out any failure of mine to higher supervision. Woman #2 was unhappily married to a businessman and had a biracial daughter with baby sans husband at home. She threw a crying fit when I used a newspaper rather than my hand to brush off the bee?wasp? that just happened to land on her inner thigh. Call me coward but at that time I wasn't interested in a job as baggage handler. But her crying convinced supervision I must have done "something".

Some days you can't win.