Dating someone from work is it doomed to fail?

[Jeilasoyun]

Have you even met someone at work you are into? , did you start something? Did it work out? When you broke up was it weird?
What are your experiences with dating a coworker?

[RebelinSteel]

I have done it before and it’s a right pain, first you try to keep it secret and meet up places where you won’t meet other work colleagues.
that goes on for a bit, sneaking around, then someone finds out and you face the looks and office whispering that goes quiet when you are around.
Then everyone gets used to it, you date for a bit.

Now the hard bit, working with someone and you have a level of responsibility and you can’t even think of showing any favour.

Then at some point you break up.

This is when you have to be professional and respect each other, you go back to just being work colleagues, which is fine until one or both of you date and you have Christmas party with different partners.

[Jeilasoyun]

Thank you 🙏 great reply

[RebelinSteel]

@Jeilasoyun no problem, it was a bit of a hmm, well we did this, then that, oh and that type of memory lol

I have friends that dated a work colleague, got married have kids

When I did it, it was more for mutual erm fun

[RebelinSteel]

@Jeilasoyun thank you for MHO.

[DryGermanGuy]

No, it's not. It depends on compatibility and maturity. I wouldn't want to work directly together every day with my significant other but I know of a few good couples that initially met at work.

[Simslover92]

It's not necessarily doomed to fail but it's just not really something I would personally ever do. If things were to go south, you have to still look this person in the eye everyday and even worse than that, you may have to work with them on a team which could be very awkward. If they are a bitter person, they may try to sabotage your work and do other things to make you look bad. So not worth it. There's a reason why they say don't shit where you eat when it comes to workplace romances.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Not necessarily but I do know some companies may not allow it so I'd say know where that stands first but besides that if the cards played right, I'd say it has an equivalent amount of hope and possibility like any other relationship.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I recalled someone on here forget who they are mentioned that dating a co-worker is the worst thing one can do, so who knows?

[In_Trance]

doomed