Tell me about your work crush

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boss. He’s 50-ish, boyishly handsome and tall, very charming, easygoing, and professional. Also a total straight shooter and family man. I get flustered around him and always look my best when we have face-to-face meetings. I’m the only person in our small department that opts to come into the office - in no small part due to him! We’re both married, I’m 36.

Do you have a divorce plan for when you accidentally fall into his lap on one of those in-office days? Then you’re sneaking off to local hotels to bang on company time, you both fall madly in lust and start texting each other throughout the day. But then you slip up and leave your phone open and unlocked as you take a poop in the bathroom…your spouse sees the hot and steamy texts between you and your boss and now your being confronted by your husband who admits he’s suspected it all along. You try to explain your way out if it but he’s not hearing it and packs a small bag to leave to clear his head. You’re now in tears and balled up in the fetal position on the couch with your dog because you now realize that you ruined your nice life over and old sleaze ball who will never leave his family to be with you—you’re just convenient fun.

You become angry and can’t take accountability for your wrongdoing so you text his wife everything that’s been happening so that you aren’t the inly ruined household. After that, you realize what a mistake that was and end up losing your job because HR gets involved and it becomes a total mess (and the juiciest gossip at work). Fast forward a year and a half and you’re now a 38 year old woman who’s fed up with the current DC dating scene and you result to online forums where you ask dating related questions about options for “women over thirty”……all to become one of those types who like to confuse everyone else on the forum by using the acronym “OLD”.

Do you really want this to be your life?

Wow, you are a killjoy! NP here, many of us can have work crushes that don't blossom into life altering affairs.

I have had several through my decade plus with my company. It's amazing to have that spark, to feel alive around someone else and a boost being with them (and fantasy material). It can stay there, and all crushes fade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss. He’s 50-ish, boyishly handsome and tall, very charming, easygoing, and professional. Also a total straight shooter and family man. I get flustered around him and always look my best when we have face-to-face meetings. I’m the only person in our small department that opts to come into the office - in no small part due to him! We’re both married, I’m 36.

As a 46 year old man, this makes my heart sing that younger women could have a crush on me. Currently crushing on an early 30s woman that is new to the company. She's super friendly to me, but of course we keep it professional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boss. He’s 50-ish, boyishly handsome and tall, very charming, easygoing, and professional. Also a total straight shooter and family man. I get flustered around him and always look my best when we have face-to-face meetings. I’m the only person in our small department that opts to come into the office - in no small part due to him! We’re both married, I’m 36.

As a 46 year old man, this makes my heart sing that younger women could have a crush on me. Currently crushing on an early 30s woman that is new to the company. She's super friendly to me, but of course we keep it professional.

48 year old man here. I can't count how many early 30s women I've bagged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boss. He’s 50-ish, boyishly handsome and tall, very charming, easygoing, and professional. Also a total straight shooter and family man. I get flustered around him and always look my best when we have face-to-face meetings. I’m the only person in our small department that opts to come into the office - in no small part due to him! We’re both married, I’m 36.

Do you have a divorce plan for when you accidentally fall into his lap on one of those in-office days? Then you’re sneaking off to local hotels to bang on company time, you both fall madly in lust and start texting each other throughout the day. But then you slip up and leave your phone open and unlocked as you take a poop in the bathroom…your spouse sees the hot and steamy texts between you and your boss and now your being confronted by your husband who admits he’s suspected it all along. You try to explain your way out if it but he’s not hearing it and packs a small bag to leave to clear his head. You’re now in tears and balled up in the fetal position on the couch with your dog because you now realize that you ruined your nice life over and old sleaze ball who will never leave his family to be with you—you’re just convenient fun.

You become angry and can’t take accountability for your wrongdoing so you text his wife everything that’s been happening so that you aren’t the inly ruined household. After that, you realize what a mistake that was and end up losing your job because HR gets involved and it becomes a total mess (and the juiciest gossip at work). Fast forward a year and a half and you’re now a 38 year old woman who’s fed up with the current DC dating scene and you result to online forums where you ask dating related questions about options for “women over thirty”……all to become one of those types who like to confuse everyone else on the forum by using the acronym “OLD”.

Do you really want this to be your life?

Troll. No one leaves their phone when going to the bathroom.

My friend had just finished opening presents on xmas morning with her husband and 2 small boys. Husband got up to shower and left his phone behind on the coffee table. Two seconds later a text flashed across his screen.

I love you and it kills me we can't spend xmas together.

That's how she found out her husband was banging a coworker. 100% true story. Both lives unraveled.

Shower yes. Toilet no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, every work crush I had, I ended up sleeping with. 🤦‍♂️
I had a few going at the same time and had to avoid certain departments.

You make it sound as if you had no choice. You do, you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's 41, lives in a South American country, is handsome, successful, clever, charming, playful, speaks 4 languages (and English with a sexy accent). We have connected and flirted mildly at conferences once or twice a year, but the lack of proximity, combined with bad timing (we're both committed to others) has prevented us from getting to know each other better. Sigh.

That reminds me of my crush from our Italian office. He’s 37 and tall with a very sexy accent. The flirting got REALLY heavy at an annual kickoff in Vegas right before the pandemic started. I happen to know that he’s LARGE even though I’ve never slept with him. Since the pandemic has killed all travel at our company I’ll probably never see him in person again.

OK, I’ll bite. How do you “happen to know”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's 41, lives in a South American country, is handsome, successful, clever, charming, playful, speaks 4 languages (and English with a sexy accent). We have connected and flirted mildly at conferences once or twice a year, but the lack of proximity, combined with bad timing (we're both committed to others) has prevented us from getting to know each other better. Sigh.

That reminds me of my crush from our Italian office. He’s 37 and tall with a very sexy accent. The flirting got REALLY heavy at an annual kickoff in Vegas right before the pandemic started. I happen to know that he’s LARGE even though I’ve never slept with him. Since the pandemic has killed all travel at our company I’ll probably never see him in person again.

OK, I’ll bite. How do you “happen to know”?

You know you're actually talking to a 54 year old overweight dude named Rodney, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, every work crush I had, I ended up sleeping with. 🤦‍♂️
I had a few going at the same time and had to avoid certain departments.

You make it sound as if you had no choice. You do, you know.

I was just a man hoe.

[Anonymous]

My crush is a new woman who just joined our company: 22-year-old brunette with a tight little body on her. And she's very friendly, even to someone like me who's 40 years her elder.

[Anonymous]

Mine was 18 years younger than me and from a very different culture. We had zero in common other than physical attraction. We ended up being long-term FWB’s until she very suddenly ghosted me. Bummer as the sex was great.

[Anonymous]

He's 20 years older, a silver fox. Very accomplished yet humble. Incredibly handy and has fixed little things in in my office like a loose drawer or hung pictures for me. He once looked me in the eyes and said his greatest regret was not having kids...I almost had to stop myself from falling back on my desk legs akimbo.

He's a conformed bachelor, shameless flirt and all around raconteur. He's just great!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband. We both work full time from home.

how suffocating. live a little pp

I'm 52. I've lived plenty. And we have nooners during the workday!

We exercise together, grab coffee, bang it out and enjoy the day. No stress.

Sorry you don't find your own husband entertaining or attractive.

I love this!

[Anonymous]

I don't have one. I'm a fed. If you'd consider my coworkers a data set, the mode would be 55+, chubby and short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boss. He’s 50-ish, boyishly handsome and tall, very charming, easygoing, and professional. Also a total straight shooter and family man. I get flustered around him and always look my best when we have face-to-face meetings. I’m the only person in our small department that opts to come into the office - in no small part due to him! We’re both married, I’m 36.

Do you have a divorce plan for when you accidentally fall into his lap on one of those in-office days? Then you’re sneaking off to local hotels to bang on company time, you both fall madly in lust and start texting each other throughout the day. But then you slip up and leave your phone open and unlocked as you take a poop in the bathroom…your spouse sees the hot and steamy texts between you and your boss and now your being confronted by your husband who admits he’s suspected it all along. You try to explain your way out if it but he’s not hearing it and packs a small bag to leave to clear his head. You’re now in tears and balled up in the fetal position on the couch with your dog because you now realize that you ruined your nice life over and old sleaze ball who will never leave his family to be with you—you’re just convenient fun.

You become angry and can’t take accountability for your wrongdoing so you text his wife everything that’s been happening so that you aren’t the inly ruined household. After that, you realize what a mistake that was and end up losing your job because HR gets involved and it becomes a total mess (and the juiciest gossip at work). Fast forward a year and a half and you’re now a 38 year old woman who’s fed up with the current DC dating scene and you result to online forums where you ask dating related questions about options for “women over thirty”……all to become one of those types who like to confuse everyone else on the forum by using the acronym “OLD”.

Do you really want this to be your life?

Troll. No one leaves their phone when going to the bathroom.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boss. He’s 50-ish, boyishly handsome and tall, very charming, easygoing, and professional. Also a total straight shooter and family man. I get flustered around him and always look my best when we have face-to-face meetings. I’m the only person in our small department that opts to come into the office - in no small part due to him! We’re both married, I’m 36.

As a 46 year old man, this makes my heart sing that younger women could have a crush on me. Currently crushing on an early 30s woman that is new to the company. She's super friendly to me, but of course we keep it professional.

48 year old man here. I can't count how many early 30s women I've bagged.

OP here - as an early 30s woman it’s not age but looks/attitude/behavior that make a man attractive. Would jump at the chance to bag this late 40s guy if we were single and didn’t work together