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It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. What should we do? Once they had that support, Heather told her boss and a few other colleagues.
We kept working hard and rose above it. We would go out for coffee, but we always met by the elevator. Heather left the company about nine months into their relationship for unrelated reasons, and she and Alex wed several years later.
While they no longer work together, they are still happily married. After getting to know one another over several months, the two women started dating. I thought it would look really bad to my team if they knew I was dating someone who was at the same level as them.
They chose to keep their relationship a secret. It felt like going back in the closet. They dated for close to a year and were able to keep the secret that whole time. Becca feels like the secrecy ultimately broke them up. Years ago, I had a summer job on a small cruise ship. One day, one of my male coworkers hit on me in a semi-respectful manner.
I didn't feel threatened; I just felt like he was interested and expressed that. I politely declined , citing the fact that we worked together. The next day, the company's "HR department" which consisted of our male boss's wife, who was a lawyer came and talked to both me and him--separately.
I doubt our boss requested she do so. Instead, I believe that behind closed doors, he mentioned overseeing this exchange to his wife, and she said, "Do not mess around with this.
A sexual harassment suit could sink our company. The fact is, dating at work is a risk. It's an emotional risk to you, and it's also a risk to the company. If nobody seems to notice, there's no reason to share. Get on the same page. You and your new partner need to agree on some ground rules and come up with a plan for how you will keep it professional and stay within written or unwritten rules.
Be professional at all times. Be sensitive and respectful to others. Talking about the relationship can be distracting or make colleagues feel uncomfortable, so don't do it.
Keep love quarrels out of the work fray. Also, it's entirely unprofessional to complain about your personal relationships at work, whether you're dating a colleague or not. Don't let disagreements affect your work. What happens at home or in your personal life no matter who you're dating almost always affects your attitude, which affects your work — it's just a fact of life.
But try your hardest not to let your disagreements with your partner affect the decisions you make or how your treat others at work. The same way you shouldn't let disagreements with your partner affect the decisions you make or how you treat others at work — you can't let your adoration for them drive your decisions, either.
It's unfair and unethical to give your significant other's work more attention and to make decisions that ultimately benefit them. So while it may be tempting, stop yourself before you get yourself into trouble. Remain focused on your work. Don't get caught up in long conversations, two-hour lunches, IMing, or emailing with your partner when you should be working on projects or preparing for meetings. One complaint to HR for PDA, showing preferential treatment, or using words of endearment in public will at the very least trigger an investigation.
Go easy on flirtatious texts and emails. Since you're in the same office, you know all the same people and may even be working on similar projects — so it's easy to go home and talk about those people or those projects.
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