Work crush and Christmas party.

Have a proper conversation with her, see what happens. You’re overthinking this, don’t bother making a game plan. Forget the dance thing anyway - that went out before you were born.

"Don't mix business with pleasure"
"Don't **** on your own doorstep"

Bollox! While I don't advocate reckless behaviour in terms of romantic (for want of a better word in some cases) relationships with work colleagues, these standard cliches just don't wash. Chances are most of us on here know of many couples which began while people were working together and continued to do so for the long-term. Some of those relationships go sour, but then again so do most jobs. You can make a move on somebody, and whether or not it goes well or not, there's no reason why you can't both continue in your work without significant problems.

"Don't mix business with pleasure" is the statement of somebody who doesn't have a potential 22 year old love interest. That won't last forever.

As you say yourself you're finishing up next week, you're effectively done there are far as you're both concerned. Don't let it be the focus of your night but it has to be viewed as a fairly decent opportunity to find out. Which is more likely to be a better time, the pre-Christmas period where people are in good form and looking forward to the Christmas break, or January where you'll be becoming a distant memory more and more and everyone is broke, cold and miserable?**

Ideally though you're going to have to at least pick up on indication of interest in some form. Is there any sign that she might be interested in you in more than a standard "we're friends" way? If there's absolutely none then you pretty much already know the answer.

Whatever happens I wish you all the best, but know this, if this doesn't work out in your favour you'll be letting us all down.

**Really depends on the form of the party. If it's just a dinner among a handful of fellow staff members then chances are subtly and a lack of awkwardness might be hard to avoid. If it's a large gathering and there's a chance for 1:1 conversation then that's a whole different ballgame.

This is so sweet.

Go for it OP, you've only another week there anyway so you have nothing to lose in asking.

Best of luck.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

This is so sweet.

Go for it OP, you've only another week there anyway so you have nothing to lose in asking.

Best of luck.

This^^

If she says no, no loss.

You tried.

People don't try.

Just be fun and interesting and chatty with her and if she wants it to go that way then shell make it obvious

Plough her ass for us OP, do us proud

I feel a lot of the advice here is motivated by vicariousness:D

Cockford Ollie wrote: »

This is an easy one. You will be sober and she will be drunk. Buy her lots of drinks over the course of the night. When the party comes to an end, make sure you keep in close proximity. When she is separated from the group, put her in a taxi, to your address. You get a second taxi and follow. The main thing to remember is that when she says no, she really means yes.

That's how I get all my women.

Where do you buy your cable ties and chloroform?

Op you should have tried anyways, sweet talked her out if it.