Dating customers

Attol · 05-07-2006 09:45PM #1

A guy I work with and I were discussing this earlier. Would you ever ask a customer for their phone number while you were working? Or have you ever given someone who was, for example serving you in a shop, your number or asked them out? You see so many people every day working in a shop so surely some people must have the guts to do it. Plenty of people seem to flirt with sales assistants but that seems to be the extent it goes to.

Collie D · 05-07-2006 09:50PM

Think it would be the other way around, worked in a restaurant for a year and there's a lot of flirting but nobosy ever asked a customer out although customers did ask the staff out, always without luck. Plenty of flirting though

Gone West · 05-07-2006 09:53PM

mabye....

Smoggy · 05-07-2006 09:54PM

on the flip side, I like the saying "never mix the poon and the biz", it's a saying that everyone should live there life by, as I have seen many office relationship that have turned bad and one of the two have had to leave. Dating customers thou is a while different matter and I dont see there being any issue there. its an easy way to meet, maybe a little cheesy.

TempestSabre · 05-07-2006 09:58PM

Depends on the job. If you are only passing through, why not.

Miss Fluff · 05-07-2006 10:09PM

My hairdresser (who I have been going to for over two years and always have a good chat with) asked me out on a date last time I was getting my highlights done. I nearly died. I said that I was a bit busy as was travelling with work but "maybe sometime" and then had to sit while he stared at me in the mirror while blowdrying my hair for 20 minutes....!!!Don't do it!!!:(

Bounty Hunter · 05-07-2006 10:12PM

I often get girls trying to chat me up at the bar i work at tho id never do anything at work or if they were drunk cos thats just taking advantage.

tho if they were sober and slipped me their number tho its rare why the hell not

Nightwish · 05-07-2006 10:15PM

One of the girls I work with is always being asked out by customers. She gets requests for her number as well as guys slipping her their number. She has never taken any of them up on their offer cos she's in a relationship, and tbh, I think it freaks her out.

RoadSweeper · 05-07-2006 10:18PM

If you asked a customer out - they might complain to management by been hit on by staff. The flip side is much more likely.

Brian Capture · 05-07-2006 10:23PM

Nightwish wrote:

She has never taken any of them up on their offer cos she's in a relationship, and tbh, I think it freaks her out.

That's not fair on the guys asking her out.

nlgbbbblth · 05-07-2006 10:30PM

In 1991 I asked a girl working in a newsagents in Inchicore out. She said yes.
Went out twice and some fun.

In 1992 and 1995 I asked two customers out that used to come into my workplace. They both said yes but the dates proved fruitless.:mad:

GerryRyan · 05-07-2006 10:32PM

Why not? You only live once.
Just don't make the mistake of going out with someone you work with - it's too awkward after you break it off *speaks from experience*

monkeyfudge · 05-07-2006 10:36PM

The closet thing I have to customers is my students... and it would be a big no-no asking them out... There's also the fact that in all my years of teaching I haven't had a single girl in my classes that I'd consider attractive.

I suppose there is the customers in my little internet café... but at the moment they're mostly the so-called 'Mediterranean students' and they're a bit young for me... plus 12 of the bastards will sit around one single computer and I have to get the caretaker to chase them away with a big stick.

Attol · 05-07-2006 10:37PM

Naw, this isn't dating co-workers, just customers. It seems totally bizarre to me. Like "here's your change, oh and I slipped my phone number in there too". I don't see how it'd work at all.

GerryRyan · 05-07-2006 10:41PM

Ok, was a bit off-topic. Just take them up on it - or don't and be flattered by it.

Adam · 05-07-2006 10:45PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

I suppose there is the customers in my little internet café... but at the moment they're mostly the so-called 'Mediterranean students' and they're a bit young for me... plus 12 of the bastards will sit around one single computer and I have to get the caretaker to chase them away with a big stick.

What cafe? Coffee + Tech =

Never been in the position to do so but I think I probably would go for it, being the customer. Being the employee less likely, possible loss of jobbage...

monkeyfudge · 05-07-2006 10:47PM

fade_to_grey wrote:

What cafe? Coffee + Tech =

Oh it's a very, very, very small one in the heart of Coolock.

It was really just an experiment... I hope to do a proper big internet café in the next few years.

Adam · 05-07-2006 10:51PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Oh it's a very, very, very small one in the heart of Coolock.

It was really just an experiment... I hope to do a proper big internet café in the next few years.

So the experiment was a relative success then?

monkeyfudge · 05-07-2006 10:52PM

fade_to_grey wrote:

So the experiment was a relative success then?

Ha... takes in almost €20 a day if I'm lucky, baby!

It's more about providing a service to the community than trying to make money though.

Adam · 05-07-2006 10:56PM

Well fair play then! Best of luck!

Look at us, we're so cool we're off topic and proud of it!

/me hides from banning stick

Ruu_Old · 05-07-2006 11:02PM

Good luck with that monkeyfudge.

I wouldnt ask a customer out but the pet store where my wife works, a customer went up and asked gave the store manager their number and afaik they went out a few times.

cournioni · 05-07-2006 11:06PM

Most of the customers we get are aul hags, and the ones that are half decent looking are all feckin married.

monkeyfudge · 05-07-2006 11:09PM

Ruu wrote:

Good luck with that monkeyfudge.

I wouldnt ask a customer out but the pet store where my wife works, a customer went up and asked gave the store manager their number and afaik they went out a few times.

Pet store eh? I reckon I could go for a woman used to handling animals all day... a zookeeper would better of course... especially if her name was Mrs. Cheeky.

Brian Capture · 05-07-2006 11:10PM

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Most of the customers we get are aul hags, and the ones that are half decent looking are all feckin married.

You should say to them

'I want intercourse'

and see what happens.

cournioni · 05-07-2006 11:16PM

Brian Capture wrote:

You should say to them

'I want intercourse'

and see what happens.

Sacked in every meaning of the word...

Sparky · 05-07-2006 11:19PM

I went out with a customers daughter.

It was fun, but suitations changed and we broke up

Andy-Pandy · 05-07-2006 11:33PM

I ve asked three customers out, all said yes (thank christ). I was chatting to them, thought say were sound, said 'fancy a pint sometime' and the rest as they say,'is history'. There was lots of prior flirty flirty with them ,so i thought 'Fcku it!'

the Shades · 05-07-2006 11:41PM

I know a cute shop assistant I'd like to ask out, and I know someon who'd give out to me if I did

Ruu_Old · 05-07-2006 11:41PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Pet store eh? I reckon I could go for a woman used to handling animals all day... a zookeeper would better of course... especially if her name was Mrs. Cheeky.

No pet monkeys I'm afraid.

aidan_walsh · 05-07-2006 11:43PM

Consumer Issues, tbh :P

Sparky-s wrote:

but suitations changed

The discounts were getting a bit outrageous, were they?

Susannahmia · 05-07-2006 11:51PM

My friend who works in a newsagents with me was asked out to dinner by a customer the other day. He practically professed his undying love to her and was crushed when my very scared friend explained she had a boyfriend. I was proposed to by a drunken polish customer once as well

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