Can You Get Your Meat Where You Get Your Bread?
They say you can't get your meat where you get your bread, but look! A sandwich. And sandwiches are delicious.
My new job. I work with 175 people, approximately 75 of which are men. Of those 75 men, I'd guess that roughly 50 are married, which leaves 25 men. Of the 25 remaining men, my preliminary assessment (conducted scientifically over the past week) is that about 8-10 of them are hot. And at least 3-4 of them are worth looking into.
Which leads me to ask you, readers, if you think that office romance is possible? I wouldn't dare to release the current names or titles, but there are a few I've had my eye on, and I'm just wondering if it's possible to get my meat where I get my bread. People close to me who have had office romances (read: my sister, and my best friend), continually rail into my head that pursuing an office romance is always a bad idea. But really, meat and bread, if they don't directly work together, do not pose a conflict of interest, now do they? My kosher friends would argue that it's all good, unless you throw some cheese or dairy in there, because religious Jews don't eat meat and dairy together, but no conflict whatsoever with the starches and the proteins. So why not?
I had an office romance in the not-so-distant past, and I think it worked out great, to be quite honest. I mean, it wasn't my boss, it was a fellow co-worker, and although the romance was short-lived, we are still very good friends to this day, and it doesn't even weird me out to think that we made out. Then again, I guess that's just one experience...and the fact that we are friends is probably a rare outcome.
If anything, I think it contributes to employee satisfaction in the workplace. Particularly if the brand of satisfaction involves discreet behavior, secret IMs, and a photocopier. That's hot.
So, say, if there were one person in particular who I actually thought was good enough for me, who was very cute and nice and smart and fun, and who seemed to fit every criteria on my "mental checklist" of things that I am looking for, would you advise me to go for it? Or would the risk of having it blow up in our faces (and our interoffice email inboxes) be worth not pursuing anything in the first place?
Also, if anyone has good stories about getting busted by their boss, feel free to share.
posted by KA @ 6:19 PM
1 Comments:
Wow, excellent comments. I'm thinking it would have been better if I had tied myself to a stake and doused myself in gasoline at this point? Thanks for the vote of confidence, guys.
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