Apparently, 75% of office workers have a "workplace spouse" - a fellow employee that you have an intense relationship with due to the fact that you spend most of your working week together, and whom you would try to protect to ensure that they remain close to you and in the relationship. And I presume the gender that you're attracted to.
I think I have one of these workplace spouses and our relationship has been getting weirder in recent times to the point of outright flirting.
In short: HOW TO COPE
― India's second-favourite Australian popstar (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 25 October 2008 06:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ask to be moved to a different fryer.
― estela, Saturday, 25 October 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
In short: HOW TO CAPE
― LIL HOOSANE (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 25 October 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
This was the subject of Sally Forth a couple weeks ago. Sally got all jealous and bitchy. But we all know Ted wouldn't cheat!
― clotpoll, Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
lol estela
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 October 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
KBP you fuck her at the next after work gathering. sydney girls are easy.
― DC Purrman (sunny successor), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 estela
― Lil Nunu (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i definitely have one! we've even labeled ourselves this. it's very helpful to have.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
NO WAY
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 October 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
estelas response is gold but i think pappawheelies was great too and and its being overlooked
― max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
lol morbs
mine just IMd me from her 2nd job, but i was watching top model and now she's offline :/ i feel i've let her down
― Surmounter, Friday, 31 October 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
This whole notion is gross and unseemly. Be professional at work!
― № 1 (libcrypt), Friday, 31 October 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
My husband and I have worked at the same place for over a year. We only work together one day a week, as we have different schedules. And on that day, we get in silly hoosband-wife beef discussions, all a-bitching, but about stuff like the imaginary number system and various models of human evolution.
― Abbott, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Or he'll ask me to explain a thing and get mad when he doesn't understand what its significance is. "Sorry, you just asked me to explain molecular bonding theory. I can't tell you the implications! Sheesh, I'm sorry!"
― Abbott, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah this is very weird and unpalatable to me. But then I do work with a lot of college students.
― A socialist who's happy to spread the wealth (Susan), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
people totally do this, but not me
― Jordan, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
uh actually my ex works at the same place, and we do e-mail a lot...
(not the same though)
― Jordan, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks max. funny that the thread eventually got tooken seriously.
― Skipping 1 messages at this point... (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
mine wants it bad but she's married :(
― jelky (jergins), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I've witnessed this phenomenon on a few occasions, but 75% sounds quite hight to me. Where'd you get that number, Esteban?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
last night my workspouse emailed me from her 2nd job and asked me to look over some emails to her boss man. i did, and she was very grateful -- i had to have her tone it down a bit (she's miffed w him).
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
abbott and hubby sound totally cute
― corrie ham (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link