Workplace romances are inevitable; love knows no boundaries. Your company rules might forbid you from dating your colleague; you can’t suppress the love you have for each other.
To fight for your love, follow these simple rules if you want to date someone in your office.
1. Know the office rules
Most offices are against dating colleagues because of the messiness that arises when lovers separate on bad terms. It affects individual performance and the overall output expected by investors.
2. Date outside your department
Dating outside your department helps to maintain the professional distance in the office. Unless it a general meeting involving all departments, your paths will cross probably in the office space on the staircase or reception.
3. Don’t announce
Don’t share your good news with your colleagues until you are confident that you and your partner have a future together. Get your family involved, and once you are ready to walk down the aisle, you can inform your supervisors, HR and colleagues at work.
4. Remember who is in charge
You must be willing to obey your partner’s rules, commands and diligently execute any tasks given us if he or she is your superior in the office. You can be the dominatrix in the bedroom, but when it comes to the office, your partner is in charge as he must give him or her the necessary respect in front of others.
5. Keep it civil
Discuss your petty issues at home; don’t bring your anger from home to the office. Don’t argue with your partner especially in front of other colleagues. Try to keep your love life distinct from your work; it helps in the direct and quick flow of information from one end to the other when needed.
6. Don’t flirt in the office
Establish boundaries with your co-worker cum partner. The office isn’t the place to show flirtatiously signs at the sight of each other. Don’t use office hours to build your romance, have a long conversation over lunch or disappear for hours without permission.
7. Maintain your individuality
Lovers are ideally supposed to support each other’s ideas especially in the midst of others but this cliché that does not fit when partners in the same team. In the office, there is a team which is more than just of two and workers are required to give their expert opinions about situations not choose sides.
Source: Pulse.com.gh
