Has anyone else ever dated a coworker?

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I have, and I ended up marrying her! She came up to me on our first day orientation, introduced herself, and after work we were having dinner together. Good times. 20 years later, she's the love of my life!

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An embarrassing number of times, yes. When you're working 60+ hours a week, coworkers are the only people you really see. I have regretted it every time, but it probably won't stop me from doing it again.

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My wife was my co-worker, I am the hotel manager and she is the receptionist, something of a novel, but the truth is that now we hardly see each other because HR separates our schedules.

Once I went out with my boss and after that horrible experience I decided never to go out with someone from work again, the big problem was that the job positions were transferred to the relationship and more than that my girlfriend wanted to be my boss too at all times.

Once I went out with my partner but at the same time he became my rival for a promotion in the company we worked for, I got the promotion and he didn't, now he works in another team but the relationship continued, I don't know how we managed it.

I once lived the story of Romeo and Juliet, I had a relationship with my boss who in turn was the daughter of the owner of the company, when he found out about our relationship he fired me and she broke up with me, I don't think it went very well right :').

My husband worked with me, we were working and having a secret relationship for 3 years until we decided to get married and the company decided that one of the two should be changed offices due to a conflict of interest, as the other office was too far away my husband resigned.

Yes, I have. It didn't work out though. She would come up to me at work and forget that we were in a professional setting and it got awkward at times, tbh

Nah, I could never. I've seen people do it and it just leads to disappointment, mistakes, and someone always ends up leaving the job.

Do people actually do this? I love my wife, but I don't think I could both work and live with her lol Going to the job sometimes helps me distract my mind from home things, and viceversa.

I wouldn’t do it

In a small environment like a restaurant, it’s rarely a good idea. You are stuck being around that person, whether the relationship lasts or not. And if not, it usually ends in one or the other quitting or being fired. I wouldn’t suggest it.

Yes, and I've also dated regular customers. It NEVER ends well, unless one leaves the company when it gets serious.

i’m engaged to a coworker and it’s very nice because the managers are willing to give us similar schedules so we can car pool. mind you we work in separate “departments” so we don’t actually do our jobs together

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