Any good stories about dating colleagues/working with ex?

Inc. recently published an article called Help! I’m Supposed to Interview My Ex for a Job, and it got me curious.

Despite the office romance stigma, I'm sure stories of people dating each other at work aren't rare.

Has anyone dated a colleague? What was that like? Any good stories?

 

tons of PWM guys fuck their assistants.

1 guy in my office was banging his assistant (while married with kids mind you), his other assistant got passed over for a promotion, ratted, ended up getting a corporate gig. the slampiece caused a divorce, got pregnant, is still employed.

my manager's boss got fired for fucking an assistant, now he's at a rival firm. slampiece went to our board of directors with the issue because no one believed her.

I'm sure there are more, just having a tough time remembering

 
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Dated a work colleague. Now married to her.

In short, it does not end well.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 
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Just curious, how did they maintain a super secret romance? I mean no one ever noticed?

They just did a good job of convincing everyone that they were just platonic friends, and their group broadly hung out socially together all the time.

 

Banged coworkers all through college working part time at call centers or retail jobs or what have you. Wouldn't do that shit in a real job though. You'd be surprised how quickly word spreads around. The same thing that'll get you high fives and "hell yeah, man" in a part time retail job will get you in some real shit in the real world.

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I dated a coworker for almost a year although we were in different groups within the bank. We kept it under wraps from senior members of the firm, but most juniors (analysts and a few close associates) knew about it. Not really an issue as we both got our work done and hardly mingled while in the office. I actually enjoyed the experience and it helped me get through the rough IB analyst years.

 

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