Banking and the office quickie

It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air.

Couples are all at their ceremonial dinners, eagerly awaiting all the wanton debauchery that will follow.

Single men and women are planning their own nights out, hoping to capitalize on the sad loneliness and desperation of their brethren.

Some however are not so lucky.

Stuck on a desk with only a computer offering romantic solutions, the long hours of banking are no help in the love department for some of our peers.

But fear not young banker crunching away on excel, you may not be getting any tonight, but I have some consolation for you:

You are a stud.

A stud in the office apparently, and more likely to be banging away at the photocopiers compared to accountants, so says Vault in a recent survey of theirs regarding office romances.

“44% of bankers say they've never had a workplace tryst, compared to 53% of accountants.”

Minus all the liars that’s probably a respectable number.

Not so surprisingly, most bankers with office relations stay away from long term relationships:

The average respondent was most likely to engage in an ongoing but casual relationship (29%), while bankers favored random office hookups (23%). Accountants bucked the trend and leaned more toward a long-term, serious relationship (19%).

And among other things, it also states that the shaky economy has become a pseudo-aphrodisiac, and that bankers are more prone to porno plot twists in their office relationships than others.

“Bankers were also more likely to get caught in the middle of that tryst: compared with 0% of accountants, 3.7% of bankers said they had been walked in on.”

OK...

We’ve had threads here over the years of analysts having crushes on their associates, of drooling over the sexy sales VP, and daydreams of relations with the HR staff.

Some of them were real, most were hilarious, but none bore fruit.

So with that, I ask you monkeys; are office romances that prevalent on the street nowadays?

Where do they do it? Details please.

And would you?

It’s a slow night so let’s get some dirt on here to shake things up.

Personally I don't shit on my own backyard, but the big desk in the corner office does look ripe to go Caligula on.