Work Romances

[dougiezerts]

Any of you meet your significant others through work?
My girlfriend and I used to work in the same office,together. She got another job in the company, but we kept in touch. We went to London together--and the rest is history!

[Department stores *sigh*]

not me personally but i know my superisor and the cash manager are husband and wife :P kinda cute haha

[Spiffy McMoron]

Actually, yes. I dated a girl I worked with for about 4 or 5 months. We'd met at work, became friends...and that's probably where it should have stayed, but it didn't. We were able to keep our personal and professional lives seperate, though.

And-funny story-I met my current girlfriend at work. We'd worked together for about a month before I was quitting to move away for school. We hadn't really talked much at work, but at the going away party, we started talking, found some common interests, and hit it off. And thus, here we are today-still going strong, although it's only been about 4 months-not a particularly long period of time, by any strech.

[Mr. Rager!]

Yeah, I dated a girl from work... for about 9 months or so. It worked great. We had spats at work, about work... but it never came home. And our fights at home never went to work. So it was all good. We're still friends... and all though. She's a great person.

[NightAngel]

My husband and I met at work and we've been together for 8 years. It'll be 9 in February unfortunately we can't remember what day exactly. We thought we had it once then discovered we were wrong.

[Gurndigarn]

Nope. My wife was the girl across the alley.

[ArenaBoy]

I met an ex-g/f too at work. this was for a while. It was very cool because we had a lot in common and we got along great. We aren't together anymore but we get along very well and I go to her school to visit every now and then.

[TNT]

Good to hear that it works for some, but it never worked out for me. A very long time ago, I learned never to date co-workers, women who live in my apartment building and women I meet on the internet.

[LadyMage]

Yeah, happened. I met, married and consequently left someone I met at work.

Not happening a second time.

[Lobo]

I tried dating at work, it just never seemed to work out in the end. One was too much of a tweaker to really even justify working together after a while. In retrospect it provided hours of entertainment watching her stare at the till wondering how it knew how much change she should hand back.

The other was just too Emo after a while. Just evil, ya know?

[Imogene]

Kind of. Definitely happened at work, just entirely not in the way the OP meant...
I meant my in town mate while working at Chesterfield. She came in with her at-the-time boyfriend nearly weekly. One day, we started talking, and I mentioned one of my long-term plans for my cosplay career... My plan involves Tenchi Muyo characters.
If anyone has listened to the Cartoon Network release of the Tenchi Muyo OST, there's a song on the disc called "My Hiroshi", which I had figured out was a song from Ryoko, singing about losing Tenchi to a guy named Hiroshi, I was trying to figure out who Hiroshi is. The discussion devolved into her asking me, "Wait, you're not straight?"
"No."
"You're suddenly infinitely cooler."

We exchanged SNs for AIM, and started talking online. Which lead to meeting after work, dinners, hugging, and general stuff like that. It got to the point that Nice AM would every so often greet her when my back was to the door, usually expecting me to turn around to look for her.

[BlaqueKatt]

yup current husband and I met at our last job-I started talking to him because no one else did, and I hate that. I'm pretty shy at times but if I see someone that looks kinda sad or lonly I go over and attempt to befriend them just because I've been that person, and no one ever made the effort with me so i'm determined to not let that happen to anyone else. We were friends for about 2-3 months before we decided we got along to well to be friends anymore, and when we decided to leave that job we both got hired by the same outsourcing/call center within a week of each other(we work on different contracts and different shifts(I work first shift he works third shift and goes to school during the day). That is the only time I broke my rule of do not date a coworker-and I'm happy that I made that exception just this once.

BlaqueKatt-married for three months yesterday-yay!!!!

[susan]

I met my sweetie at work. In fact I was the third girl he went out with from work (the company's not that big either), but I'm the only one that stuck (almost 4 years!)

At the time I worked in the Call Center and he worked in the Warehouse, everything is under one roof, so even though we worked at the same company we really had to go out of our way to see each other. I could go days without seeing him, which was just fine with me. He works for a different company now.

I don't think I could ever date anyone that worked in the same department as me, though.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

No, not really. Gone on the occasional date with a co worker, but never anything even remotely serious. And while I did not meet my husband at work, ironically I have worked not one, but three different jobs that he also worked at, including my current one.

People always ask how we can manage that. It's easy. At home we are a married couple. At work we are professionals and co-workers.

It's not hard at all.

[ladodger34]

I don't think I could ever date anyone that worked in the same department as me, though.

Working in the same department as someone you have an argument with the night before and see the next day isn't a cool thing.

After a bad experience, I just decided dating at work wasn't worth it. Most of "dateable" people were my subordinates and that wasn't going to happen either. To be fair though, the bad experience I had was more with the person and didn't have much to do with work.