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Office Romances - Yay or Nay?

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  • 16-04-2012 9:17pm
    #1
    murraykil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭


    Is it a good idea to start dating someone from your workplace?

    Any AH folk want to share their experiences of this?

    Amorous Workplace Relationships - Yes or No? 93 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    52% 49 votes
    Maybe baby
    47% 44 votes


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    #2
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    nay, unless they're hot and single. And you're single. And you don't really plan on working there for long. Or they're hot.


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    #3
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Nay, what if you break up or she realises you have a small willy and tells everyone :eek:


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    #4
    phasers
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    I always assumed that everyone was doing everyone in most workplaces. I watch too much tv.


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    #5
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Nay, what if you break up or she realises you have a small willy and tells everyone :eek:

    Have you a small willy Jenny?


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    murraykil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭murraykil


    phasers wrote: »
    I always assumed that everyone was doing everyone in most workplaces. I watch too much tv.

    They may be, but it's best to keep it a secret for as long as possible!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Romance noooo. Quick shag if both parties are happy not to be all weird the next day - sure why not!


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    AboutTwoFiddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭AboutTwoFiddy


    murraykil wrote: »
    Is it a good idea to start dating someone from your workplace?

    If you work in a crèche it might be a bad idea...


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    murraykil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭murraykil


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Romance noooo. Quick shag if both parties are happy not to be all weird the next day - sure why not!

    Quick shag thing isn't really such an issue, it's the whole full-on relationship. Seeing them before, during and after work! :eek: Probably fine at first, but maybe no so in the long term. Then of course the office gossip!


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    #10
    murraykil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭murraykil


    AboutTwoFiddy wrote: »
    If you work in a crèche it might be a bad idea...

    :D


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    HOS 1997
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭HOS 1997


    Wouldn't be my thing but I know loads of people who met (and later got married/had kids together etc.) at work and started their relationships off as office romances.


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    ball
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    Don't shít where you eat


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    #13
    galwayrush
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    I don't work in an office, so nay...


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    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    ball wrote: »
    Don't shít where you eat

    Err, thanks for that... now, back to the subject at hand - how bout them office romances, eh??


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    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    There is a girl I have met in the dole office a few times, she is lovely and I am thinking of asking her out for a meal. Would that be an office romance?


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    Gee Bag
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    ball wrote: »
    Don't shít where you eat


    ............unless she is into coprohphilia.


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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,474 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    AboutTwoFiddy wrote: »
    If you work in a crèche it might be a bad idea...

    I was wondering what the "maybe baby" thing was in the poll. Yikes. This thread just took a dark turn.


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    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Born to Die wrote: »
    Have you a small willy Jenny?

    Yes it haunts me every day.

    Speaking from experience :(


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    murraykil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭murraykil


    Born to Die wrote: »
    There is a girl I have met in the dole office a few times, she is lovely and I am thinking of asking her out for a meal. Would that be an office romance?

    Maybe, but you gotta ask her out first!


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    Snowie
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    Id rather grate my ball sack on a fine grater then go out with a woman i worked with that would suck balls....


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    #21
    Grayson
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    My last GF was someone I worked with. Even though we broke up it was all grand in the end. My only rule would be not to tell anyone where I worked that I was seeing somewhere in the office until the relationship is well established. Otherwise the gossip would be nuts.


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    ball
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    Born to Die wrote: »
    There is a girl I have met in the dole office a few times, she is lovely and I am thinking of asking her out for a meal. Would that be an office romance?

    I really hope this isn't a joke.

    I'd love to tell people I met my wife in the dole queue


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    Dyr
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    Born to Die wrote: »
    There is a girl I have met in the dole office a few times, she is lovely and I am thinking of asking her out for a meal. Would that be an office romance?

    You can take someone out for a meal? On the dole? :mad::mad::mad::mad: X100billionty&7

    My taxes are paying for that, my mortgage, Im working 33 hours a day and eating out of bins, my mortgage, govt riding me and giving you everything for free, fine gael, my mortgage, hang the poor, my mortgage, pyjamas, tracksuits, children's allowance, my mortgage, spongers,welfare, flat screen tvs, mymortgagemymortgagemymortgagemymortgagemymortgagemymortgage

    *foams at mouth*


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    Gee Bag
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    Born to Die wrote: »
    There is a girl I have met in the dole office a few times, she is lovely and I am thinking of asking her out for a meal. Would that be an office romance?

    I have a lovely image of the two of you sharing a can of beans on the Liffey Boardwalk.*







    *Please don't take offence, its a joke!


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    SunnyDub1
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    Gee Bag wrote: »
    Born to Die wrote: »
    There is a girl I have met in the dole office a few times, she is lovely and I am thinking of asking her out for a meal. Would that be an office romance?

    I have a lovely image of the two of you sharing a can of beans on the Liffey Boardwalk.*







    *Please don't take offence, its a joke!


    I don't get the joke here ?


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    #26
    murraykil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭murraykil


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    I don't get the joke here ?

    pic


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    barbiegirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭barbiegirl


    Yep I met my hubbie in work and the boy friend previous. So long as you're mature enough to handle any issues and to keep work separate you're fine. If it all goes tits up so long as you act respectfully towards one another there's no issue. So mature and respectful guess that rules out most people in After Hours ;-)


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    #28
    mummymoo
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭mummymoo


    sure what harm!


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    #29
    huddledDuke12
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭huddledDuke12


    As long as she's hot, sound and classy.................Hell Yeah!

    I'd look forward to work if that were the case!:D


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    #30
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    murraykil wrote: »
    Maybe, but you gotta ask her out first!
    I was waiting for AH approval.
    ball wrote: »
    I really hope this isn't a joke.

    I'd love to tell people I met my wife in the dole queue

    No joke, who knows where you are going to meet people, I don't walk in there with my head down, I didn't choose unemployment.
    Bambi wrote: »
    You can take someone out for a meal? On the dole? :mad::mad::mad::mad: X100billionty&7

    My taxes are paying for that, my mortgage, Im working 33 hours a day and eating out of bins, my mortgage, govt riding me and giving you everything for free, fine gael, my mortgage, hang the poor, my mortgage, pyjamas, tracksuits, children's allowance, my mortgage, spongers,welfare, flat screen tvs, mymortgagemymortgagemymortgagemymortgagemymortgagemymortgage

    *foams at mouth*

    Calm down, I give my JB to my elderly parents whose pensions were robbed by the evil bankers, I have worked all my adult life and have money and no mortgage.

    Unemployment for me is not a choice just an annoying interruption to my working life.


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    #31
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    barbiegirl wrote: »
    Yep I met my hubbie in work and the boy friend previous. So long as you're mature enough to handle any issues and to keep work separate you're fine. If it all goes tits up so long as you act respectfully towards one another there's no issue. So mature and respectful guess that rules out most people in After Hours ;-)


    So you work with both your husband and your boyfriend? interesting :p


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