Office Mate: Your Employee Handbook for Romance on the Job

by Stephanie Kisee, Helaine Olen

Overview

The greatest pool of potential mates is not online, in a bar, or on a blind date, it is in the workplace. This book tells you how to navigate this territory gracefully with specific dos and don’ts for office romance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440516481
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	10/01/2007
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	390 KB

About the Author

An Adams Media author.

Table of Contents

From the Desk of Helaine     ix
From the Desk of Stephanie     xiii
Introduction     xvi
Why Work Just Might Be the Perfect Place to Find True Love     1
It Takes a Village to Make a Marriage, and the Office Is a Modern-Day Village     3
How the Village Is Built, or Why You Should Love and Adore Human Resources Even Though They're Always Sending You All Those Annoying Memos     15
Office Mate Orientation, or the Anti-Rules     27
You're in Good Company (in More Ways Than One)     41
You Think We're Not Talking about You, But We Are     53
How to Indicate Interest-Without Indicating Yourself Right Out of a Job     61
Let's Give Them Something to Talk About     77
What about the "Office Spouse"?     87
Office Mate Etiquette: Managing Your Workplace Romance     95
So You're in Love: Dos     97
So You're in Love: Don'ts     109
When Do You Tell? Not to Mention, How Do You Tell?     119
Dating the Boss or a Subordinate     125
Dating an Equal     143
Don't Go There, or No, No, No     155
When He's Out of Your Life But Not Out of the Office Next Door     171
Serial Office Dating: Possibly Inevitable but Not Necessarily Lethal     191
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Or, Leaving the Village     199
The Global Office (Mate)     211
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder     213
When Your Workplace Is a Romantic Wasteland     221
Conclusion: Happily Ever After, Which Is the Point     232
Index     234

Editorial Reviews

Controversial though it may be, workplace romance is flourishing. Both Losee and Olen, contributors to internationally known newspapers and magazines, met their husbands on the job. They here maintain that the office serves as the village of the 21st century, and they offer rules and suggestions for dating coworkers. Some of their dos include being oneself, taking no for an answer, and discussing the worst-case scenario early in the relationship. Among the don'ts are violating sexual-harassment laws, fighting in the office, and dating a married person. The authors deal honestly with the prevalence of office romances and provide helpful advice for keeping them aboveboard. Recommended for all libraries.

—Deborah Bigelow

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