Since this is my first blog, I will give a brief overview of what this post will be about.
There is this one co-worker, lets call him Short that I have gotten to become friends with over our mutual love for running/being healthy. These 5-10 minute conversations in the kitchen, eventually turned into lunch dates. It became awkward for me because: he wouldn't let me pay for the sandwiches, he knew that I was seeing someone, and he would say that I was beautiful. Especially, after the beautiful comment I quickly tried to avoid him.
Fast forward to this week, yesterday at dinner, a co-worker mentions to the table that Short and I are more interesting than the current guy that I am dating. I was like OMG HOW DO PEOPLE KNOW WE WERE GOING OUT TO LUNCH/WHY DO THEY THINK THERE IS SOMETHING BETWEEN US. I know that all of my co workers are probably doing it in a joking/fun loving way, but it has annoyed me because I am seeing someone that I care about, and I don't want them thinking that I am cheating or whatever.
Then I saw him this morning, where he started saying he was going to send me an e-mail to ask how I was doing. Thank god he doesn't have my personal e-mail address and just my work one. I made sure the conversation was extremely brief and made my fast exit from the kitchen.
From talking on the phone with a friend, he think that I may just have a work husband.
Has this type of thing happen to other people, where co-workers develop stronger feelings for you?
-Dishearted
Haha, people around the office ALWAYS know. They live for gossip.
ReplyDeleteI was on the other side of the table before. I had a "work husband" at one past job--we had cubicle talks just about every day, sometimes would get lunch, and sometimes would hang out after work. It got to the point where I wasn't sure whether or not our dinners after work were just friends or an actual date. I inevitably developed feelings for him, and when he started dating someone else, things became awkward and we stopped hanging out.
Oh, and P.S.--welcome to the bloggerhood!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blog! I love your stories!!
ReplyDeleteyep, when I started my current job years ago, the playboy in the ICT team started flirting a lot with me even though I was in the early stages of dating my current boyfriend. I couldn't get a good opportunity to tell him I'm seeing someone as he never asked me out, just a lot of flirting and comments here and there. I eventually staged it so that a friend at work started asking me questions about the previous weekend which she knew I spent with my boyfriend while the three of us were having lunch one day.
ReplyDeleteWorked like a charm, he backed off afterwards and it didn't get too awkward at work. Success!
and yeah, as Skeptic said - people do always know. Gossip is king at the office, nothing stays hidden and more often than not it's documented in photos.