Is workplace romance dead?

[renard_ruse]

Back in the day, many couples met at work. Many people met their future spouse on the job. My parents met that way. If someone was single, other employees would try to set them up.

Not just workplace romance but what was called workplace "hanky panky" was common and even rampant. People didn't even know who was banging who. Some workplaces were party central.

Then the life killing sex harassment "laws" were imposed on everyone by the extreme femanists and that was that. All the fun, all the romance, all the good times died. The lawyers will claim that flirting, romance, and sex aren't actually banned by the sex harassment "laws," but like many laws the chilling effect is much broader than the actual law itself.

The very idea that a workplace can be a sexy place has pretty much died. Most workers accept that they must leave their sex drive at the workplace door and force themselves, as much as humanly possible to become asexual drones for 8, 10 or more hours every day. Even so much as a flirtateous look is dangerous and can get someone fired or sued for millions of dollars.

Is it time we rethink what we've done to ourselves and ask "has this really made people happier or the work place more productive?" Or has it just made people miserable?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Back in the day, many couples met at work. Many people met their future spouse on the job. My parents met that way. If someone was single, other employees would try to set them up.

Not just workplace romance but what was called workplace "hanky panky" was common and even rampant. People didn't even know who was banging who. Some workplaces were party central.

Then the life killing sex harassment "laws" were imposed on everyone by the extreme femanists and that was that. All the fun, all the romance, all the good times died.

I think you'll find they haven't, or else your workplace must be a remarkably and unusually sad and dour one, which would not surprise me in the least.

 

[thør]

Shit. I just bought a new lay table.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Back in the day, many couples met at work. Many people met their future spouse on the job. My parents met that way. If someone was single, other employees would try to set them up.

Not just workplace romance but what was called workplace "hanky panky" was common and even rampant. People didn't even know who was banging who. Some workplaces were party central.

Then the life killing sex harassment "laws" were imposed on everyone by the extreme femanists and that was that. All the fun, all the romance, all the good times died. The lawyers will claim that flirting, romance, and sex aren't actually banned by the sex harassment "laws," but like many laws the chilling effect is much broader than the actual law itself.

The very idea that a workplace can be a sexy place has pretty much died. Most workers accept that they must leave their sex drive at the workplace door and force themselves, as much as humanly possible to become asexual drones for 8, 10 or more hours every day. Even so much as a flirtateous look is dangerous and can get someone fired or sued for millions of dollars.

Is it time we rethink what we've done to ourselves and ask "has this really made people happier or the work place more productive?" Or has it just made people miserable?

Your workplace just sucks, guy.

I work with a majority of women on a maybe 60/40 ratio to men and while it's not perfect and not without conflict or arguments, it's great being at the office. Nobody's an asexual drone. Many of us wear our passions on our sleeves. We're a mix of liberals and conservatives that exist on a spectrum, not a binary. We have straight and LGBT workers. Everyone respects each other's person, not only because of the "rules," but because we're basically not shitty people with shitty attitudes and shitty characters. Sometimes a group of us gets together to hang and socialize at the local pub nearby. Some of our holiday parties have gotten pretty wild. We cater in pizzas and submarine sandwiches and booze occasionally when we're getting through shift grinds. We celebrate birthdays with cake and champagne breaks. We're on social networks together. There have been various hookups, relationships, breakups, marriages, divorces and new families kicked off between co-workers over the span of years. You see, what makes us human and living life as a human doesn't stop because you have to respect the space and person of other people you work with.

I feel for ya, Renny. But don't fret. Someday soon, someone will make a Way-Back or some sort of time machine and then you can go to the 1950s and be truly happy!

 

[coachdb18]

In the current environment, if you're smart, your coworker could fall out a set of DDD's straight on the conference table in the middle of your presentation, and you better not so much as blink.

 

[Maidboy]

Not just workplace romance but what was called workplace "hanky panky" was common and even rampant. People didn't even know who was banging who. Some workplaces were party central.

Stop whining, put the vodka martini down, and quit chasing the secretaries already! This is a place of business, not a fraternity house. And the next time you come stumbling into work, two hours late and reeking of booze and cheap perfume, your ass is out, got it? Now get back to work. I want that monthly sales report on my desk by 5 o'clock, and not a minute later, comprende?

 

[Maidboy]

In the current environment, if you're smart, your coworker could fall out a set of DDD's straight on the conference table in the middle of your presentation, and you better not so much as blink.

You too, big guy! Stop staring at Miss Harwell's tits and get moving on our projected earnings report.

 

[Tryharder62]

Maybe if you are a mortician!!

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Judging by the number of guys and gals chatting instead of doing their fucking jobs I'd say workplace romance is alive and well in these parts. We did have an incident a couple years ago where a supervisor sent cock pics to an employee. Needless to say, he no longer works here. I think as long as the people involved maintain an air of decorum there can be flirting and relationships with few ill effects. Sexual harassment laws aren't going to stop this behavior.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Sounds like the female co-workers think the renard is a creepytard.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[KingOrfeo]

In the current environment, if you're smart, your coworker could fall out a set of DDD's straight on the conference table in the middle of your presentation, and you better not so much as blink.

Which is not in any sense a problem.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Work place romances happen even where they are banned, they just have to be disciplined and discrete.

You mean "discreet."

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yeah, though work place orgies might challenge that

I wish I worked where you do.

 

[Maidboy]

I've witnessed workplace romances between co-workers at strip clubs, but that's a whole different matter I suppose.

 

[Adjudicator]

Who else thinks Ruse has had some meetings with his bosses to discuss accusations of sexual harassment?

 

[KingOrfeo]

I've witnessed workplace romances between co-workers at strip clubs, but that's a whole different matter I suppose.

And hotter, too.

 

[gypsyTX]

Sex harassment lawsuits

Why should we have to become asexual when we walk thru the workplace door?

How do people meet the opposite sex now that flirting is banned?

Workplaces no fun anymore, it doesn't have to be this way

Asexuality at work rejected by "Millenials"

 

[GimpyIntellect]

Workplace romance isn't dead at all.

My boss fucks me all the time.