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"Work spouses"
#2021912 02/11/08 10:05 AM
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This was on the CNN website this morning..

Platonic work flirting:Good for business?
I was unaware that flirting was a "platonic" activity! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Interesting that the academic thinks this can be a good thing, but it took the journalist to point out the danger....

"If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections." (The Lady Jessica to her daughter Alia, in Frank Herbert's Children of Dune)
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Heartpain #2021913 02/11/08 10:26 AM
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That's an interesting article HP.

Especially in view of the outcome of this questionnaire by the same people as the CNN piece on office romances.

For example in answer to the question :

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Have you ever known a married co-worker to have an affair with someone at the office?

48% voted " yes".

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Heartpain #2021914 02/11/08 10:34 AM
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Interesting.
I have seen it happen many times....and more than a few times it led to disaster.

One of my first jobs, coworkers teased my married boss and I about behaving like husband and wife. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
We would lunch together,joke,argue and in a weird way, we did flirt, I guess.
I thought of him more as a brother. Shortly after I left the company, I heard he was having an affair w/ his new assistant.

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nia17 #2021915 02/11/08 11:55 AM
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This article just makes me sick!!!!

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