Workplace romance

[smurfboy]

Have you ever had one? Would you?

Everyone in my office has been quite severely beaten with the ugly stick, but a client has been in all this week having product training and the expression on my face has been:

[Forth Bridges]

that not a work place romance if it a outside person 

[loulou]

I once got engaged and lived with a person I worked with and no it didn't work out.

[smurfboy]

that not a work place romance if it a outside person 

No, not exactly.

[oldspice]

  I met my husband at work thirty years ago when I was 19. At the time I was engaged to someone else and I was not interested in Eddie romantically, although I really liked him. I was a department manager in one branch and he was travelling with the sales development team.

My engagement didn't work out and a few years later, Eddie and I met up again and worked on a project together for a whole weekend. I was smitten! 

We have been together ever since. We had to keep our romance secret for a while because the company did not like relationships between staff. When we got married, I left the company!

So, I would say this work romance did work out but I thin kthe secrecy and naughtiness of it all help it to thrive because we didn't have workplace colleagues poking their noses in and stirring things up.

At my workplace there are loads of relationships that are supposed to be secret but are well known. In one case, a couple, both married to other people, have been having an affair for 28 years and they seriously think that nobody knows!  Large academic organisations are full of such things.

[kevvosa]

I knew someone who had a boyfriend and she used to boast about who she was having it off with behind his back. She even used to show people text messages from her latest flings. 

[goldencup]

Have you ever had one? Would you?

Yes I have (many years ago) and it was fun but didn't work out.  As Oldspice says, the secrecy adds spice but it can eventually cause problems all round and result in people losing their jobs one way or another.  Still, if the person doesn't actually work in the same place, I say go for it!

[Freddie]

I met my husband at work thirty years ago

I met my Hubby at work too and we are still together after 26+ yrs..

[oldspice]

I have had a few fumbles at work but not what you would really call a romance.  When I was 17 and in my first job, I took the Goods lift as the passenger lift was always full and a girl called Jane Brown was already in.  I had been warned about Jane Brown.  After we had gone one floor she pulled the inner gate open so that the lift stopped.  I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

[Forth Bridges]

REMEMBER

Not get married Just because of baby it WILL NEVER WORK!

[goldencup]

I have had a few fumbles at work but not what you would really call a romance. When I was 17 and in my first job, I took the Goods lift as the passenger lift was always full and a girl called Jane Brown was already in. I had been warned about Jane Brown. After we had gone one floor she pulled the inner gate open so that the lift stopped. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

And YOUR imagination? 

[lorri]

I met my husband at work thirty years ago

I met my Hubby at work too and we are still together after 26+ yrs..

 

i met my hubby at work as well and we have been together 27 years and married for 20 this year, so i guess some work out

 

I have had a few fumbles at work but not what you would really call a romance. When I was 17 and in my first job, I took the Goods lift as the passenger lift was always full and a girl called Jane Brown was already in. I had been warned about Jane Brown. After we had gone one floor she pulled the inner gate open so that the lift stopped. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

And YOUR imagination?

No, this really happened.  If it was my imagination, there would have been at least another two girls in there.  

[loulou]