Office romances such as dating a man in the workplace are full of risks. Before you start flirting over the copy machine, think about where an office romance could take you. In fact, your company may have a firm policy discouraging dating a co-worker or at least dating a person within the same department. Moral of the story: Think before you date a co-worker.
In this video, relationship coach, life coach and YourTango Expert Margaret Paul explains how easy it is to fall victim to emotional infidelity with a boss or coworker.
Sunday, October 16th is National Boss Day, and to celebrate, we want to recognize all the femme fatale bosses on television and in the movies. Whether these ladies are mid-level mavens or the top women on the team, there are things we can learn from their leadership style. These ladies know how to take control in any situation. Sometimes you have to be a meanie to get the job done.
Do you feel constantly stressed out and on edge? Or are you tired of your partner having a short fuse with you? Is stress negatively affecting your relationships? Are you constantly arguing? Are you feeling tired and fatigued all the time? Are you having difficulty falling and staying asleep? Is stress making you sick or causing you to gain weight? Are you having trouble concentrating? Are you moody and irritable much of time?
Asking your boss for sex clearly crosses the line from work flirting to sexual harassment, as one Australian former police officer learned. Is female success within the workplace making women more sexually aggressive? Are women so darn overworked they can't think of anywhere else to seek out some action? And—most disturbingly—are women more likely than men to get away with it?
Can you get canned for having sex at the office? How about dating a coworker? YourTango explains the quick-and-dirty rules of risky business
As part of his book, The Guinea Pig Diaries, author A.J. Jacobs did everything his wife told him to. "She will be boss. I will be her devoted servant. It will be a month of foot massages and talking about feelings and scrubbing dishes and watching Kate Hudson movies (well, if Julie actually liked Kate Hudson movies). It could be revelatory. It'll let me explore the tricky power dynamics of the modern American marriage. It'll allow me to study the Mars/Venus, Everybody Loves Raymond clichés about gender battles and figure out which are true and which are hogwash."
Yes, I knew it was wrong when I started. He was on the fast track to marriage. And he was my boss. But like all decisions made when alcohol is involved, morality isn't exactly a high factor. I remember the first time I saw him. I had just started as an intern in a medium sized company and my boss brought me around to make introductions. And there he sat. His long lean frame curled up over a computer, his glasses just slightly too big for his face. His hair in need of a hair cut Not long, but long enough to make it seem unkempt. A nerd to the core was my initial thought. And it was also what attracted me to him so. He looked up from his computer screen and smiled, a brief genuine smile that sent sparks shooting up and down my spine. I reciprocated, and continued my introduction rounds. Little did I know at that point, that for the next four years he'd be my immediate supervisor.
We’ll be the first to say that dating and interviewing are eerily similar. According to One News, IT companies in New Zealand have modeled the hiring process after the ever-popular speed-dating model (which they attribute to the U.S. Who knew?). Big-wigs set up tables and offered college seniors a chance to impress them—in two minutes. Both sides then filled out preference cards and waited for a “match.”
