Do you have an office husband/wife ?

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:19PM #1

Or girlfriend/boyfriend, call it what you will. Im not talking about your actual other OH, this applies to everyone.

Someone you share all those in house jokes with in work. Maybe you run to them with your first bit of gossip. Keep seats for each other and defend each other to the boss etc. Only thing is compared to a proper relationship you dont have to sleep with them. Although you may be so close half the office thinks you are anyways. Ive got one. We've often make each other coffee and toast in the mornings and just "get" each others jokes and stuff.

Nothing going on though

So do you have a work other half ?

Kiera · 19-07-2011 05:20PM

I've a couple. I'm the office bike.

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:22PM

Kiera wrote: »

I've a couple. I'm the office bike.

Thats gotta hurt

Dangerous Man · 19-07-2011 05:22PM

No. I pretend to be people's friends at work but the first chance I get I'm going to fuck them all over.

g'em · 19-07-2011 05:23PM

Kiera wrote: »

I've a couple. I'm the office bike.

I was considering that bike to work scheme thingy. If that's what's on offer I won't bother.

pickarooney · 19-07-2011 05:23PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

No. I pretend to be people's friends at work but the first chance I get I'm going to fuck them all over.

All over? That's a good thorough fucking, that is.

Kiera · 19-07-2011 05:23PM

ShadowGal wrote: »

Thats gotta hurt

No way, its awesome

Dravokivich · 19-07-2011 05:24PM

Have I stumbled onto OK Magazines forum?

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:24PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

No. I pretend to be people's friends at work but the first chance I get I'm going to fuck them all over.

Im sensing a little bowling for columbine from you.. yowza

CK2010 · 19-07-2011 05:24PM

ShadowGal wrote: »

Or girlfriend/boyfriend, call it what you will. Im not talking about your actual other OH, this applies to everyone.

Someone you share all those in house jokes with in work. Maybe you run to them with your first bit of gossip. Keep seats for each other and defend each other to the boss etc. Only thing is compared to a proper relationship you dont have to sleep with them.

So do you have a work other half ?

Is this not just a friend?

Kiera · 19-07-2011 05:25PM

g'em wrote: »

I was considering that bike to work scheme thingy. If that's what's on offer I won't bother.

We dont let slutwhores ride us :P

holystungun9 · 19-07-2011 05:27PM

ShadowGal wrote: »

Thats gotta hurt

Not with a good set of stabilizers.

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:27PM

CK2010 wrote: »

Is this not just a friend?

Its a little more than that, lets not deny it :cool:

Just someone in work who you kind of partner up with that happens to be of the opposite sex

discus · 19-07-2011 05:27PM

CK2010 wrote: »

Is this not just a friend?

Here here. The "office wife" is nothing but a silly label that the office gossipers love to use.

I've had a few of the friendships you've described ShadowGal, and they've been the only platonic relationships of my life with the opposite sex - as in, I don't fall head over heels for them!

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:28PM

holystungun9 wrote: »

Not with a good set of stabilizers.

God be with the days

Honestly though, my dad didnt get us stabilizers. We just got a good shove

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:30PM

discus wrote: »

Here here. The "office wife" is nothing but a silly label that the office gossipers love to use.

I've had a few of the friendships you've described ShadowGal, and they've been the only platonic relationships of my life with the opposite sex - as in, I don't fall head over heels for them!

Ive seen one or 2 myself, and they look just a little closer than friends i have to say. I dont see it as a bad gossipy thing though. I find it amusing

g'em · 19-07-2011 05:34PM

Kiera wrote: »

We dont let slutwhores ride us :P

Office bikes with standards? See that's what happens when you implement equality regulations. Fraks' sake.

I have an office husband. We annoy the crap out of eachother all day, finish eachother's sentences, fight over stupid things and yes we do gossip all the time. But there would never, EVER be anything in it more than that, it's just from working so closely with eachother for three years. Ewww.

Greenmachine · 19-07-2011 05:36PM

Sounds like what your talking about is an emotional affair. The worst kind apparently. :eek:

CK2010 · 19-07-2011 05:36PM

ShadowGal wrote: »

Its a little more than that, lets not deny it :cool:

Just someone in work who you kind of partner up with that happens to be of the opposite sex

so if its with a girl its just 'my friend' but if its a guy its my 'office husband'? its all the same to me tbh! actually i think id be a little pissed off if people referred to my guy friend in work as my hubby or whatever as its a teeny bit unfair on my actual boyfriend! but thats just me!

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:36PM

g'em wrote: »

Office bikes with standards? See that's what happens when you implement equality regulations. Fraks' sake.

I have an office husband. We annoy the crap out of eachother all day, finish eachother's sentences, fight over stupid things and yes we do gossip all the time. But there would never, EVER be anything in it more than that, it's just from working so closely with eachother for three years. Ewww.

Exactly, thats my point, nothing would ever happen its just funny how close you get to someone when you spend that much time with them. Which lets be honest is a good chunk in your day

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:39PM

CK2010 wrote: »

so if its with a girl its just 'my friend' but if its a guy its my 'office husband'? its all the same to me tbh! actually i think id be a little pissed off if people referred to my guy friend in work as my hubby or whatever as its a teeny bit unfair on my actual boyfriend! but thats just me!

No the heading is husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend. and im not talking about people actually referring to you as an office hubby. Its an anonymous forum, we're not going to tell your boyfriend/girlfriend

discus · 19-07-2011 05:39PM

g'em wrote: »

Office bikes with standards? See that's what happens when you implement equality regulations. Fraks' sake.

I have an office husband. We annoy the crap out of eachother all day, finish eachother's sentences, fight over stupid things and yes we do gossip all the time. But there would never, EVER be anything in it more than that, it's just from working so closely with eachother for three years. Ewww.

You just wait til the christmas party, when one of you has been having a bad time and needs some good company, maybe someone to talk to...

Maybe the waiters kept topping up your glass too much. Maybe the giddiness of the season gets to you both. Who knows... but next thing you know, you'll have checked in to the Fitzwilliam Hotel, after claiming you were going home sick, and you order 2 magnums of Dom, run the bath, booked a late check-in, and have the night of your LIVES!...

....I've said too much.

mikemac · 19-07-2011 05:41PM

This is reading like a Ladies Lounge thread, get it outta here

discus, Mills & Boon will be calling you soon
They have a contract for you

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:43PM

mikemac wrote: »

This is reading like a Ladies Lounge thread, get it outta here

discus, Mills & Boon will be calling you soon
They have a contract for you

So where do all of the Irish girls are fat and ugly threads belong ? the mens lounge surely (if there is one) :pac:

CK2010 · 19-07-2011 05:45PM

ShadowGal wrote: »

No the heading is husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend. and im not talking about people actually referring to you as an office hubby. Its an anonymous forum, we're not going to tell your boyfriend/girlfriend

i dunno, i dont get it sorry!

i have close friends in work but boy or girl i wouldnt ever really think of it that way, a friend is a friend, never thought about/heard of office husband/wife before! maybe im weird! :pac:

as for not telling him, its not about that, i just think its a bit weird to think of someone else as your 'office husband' when you have a real husband, surely they're just a friend. like what you describe is what a friendship is all about, no?? i just dont get it

sorry! :pac:

ShadowGal · 19-07-2011 05:47PM

CK2010 wrote: »

i dunno, i dont get it sorry!
i have close friends in work but boy or girl i wouldnt ever really think of it that way, a friend is a friend, never thought about/heard of office husband/wife before! maybe im weird! :pac:

as for not telling him, its not about that, i just think its a bit weird to think of someone else as your 'office husband' when you have a real husband, surely they're just a friend. like what you describe is what a friendship is all about, no?? i just dont get it
sorry! :pac:

The heading is kind of a joke, not to be taken literally (sorry)

Kiera · 19-07-2011 05:49PM

g'em wrote: »

Office bikes with standards? See that's what happens when you implement equality regulations. Fraks' sake.

I have an office husband. We annoy the crap out of eachother all day, finish eachother's sentences, fight over stupid things and yes we do gossip all the time. But there would never, EVER be anything in it more than that, it's just from working so closely with eachother for three years. Ewww.

Thats like me a one of the lads in work. They call us the "old married couple" cause we're always fighting, taking the piss and helping each other out.

CK2010 · 19-07-2011 05:50PM

no, i know its not serious but i just dont get it thats all!
no need to say sorry! :P

Mr. Denton · 19-07-2011 05:51PM

Kiera wrote: »

I've a couple. I'm the office bike.

You should enter politics. Then you could be the town bike.

g'em · 19-07-2011 05:53PM

Kiera wrote: »

Thats like me a one of the lads in work. They call us the "old married couple" cause we're always fighting, taking the piss and helping each other out.

Here, twelve-gears, does that mean that you're having an affair with all the other lads? Jaysus. The labour divorce courts would have a field day with you. Can you imagine trying to sort out who gets custody of the staplers and the fax machine?

Kiera · 19-07-2011 05:55PM

g'em wrote: »

Here, twelve-gears, does that mean that you're having an affair with all the other lads? Jaysus. The labour divorce courts would have a field day with you. Can you imagine trying to sort out who gets custody of the staplers and the fax machine?

@ 12 gears!

I wouldnt go near any of them! Ick!

Do you have an office husband/wife ?

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