Or your pork where you do your work.
I just wanted to point out how appropriate it is for you to be posting in Feces of Death’s thread. You should work together more often. 
No, he’s probably right.
I’d say this is the best and only approach.
It’s funny this reminds me one of one time when I was trying to snag a young lady at work. It went something like this:
[walks up to her desk]
Me: “Hey you ready?”
Her: “Ready for what?”
Me: “Lunch.”
Her: “Um, Lunch?”
Me: “Yeah, lunch. Didn’t we agree to have lunch today?”
Her: “Uh, No.” :dubious:
Me: “Oh I’m sorry. I could have sworn we agreed to have lunch today. I must have sent that Email to the wrong person.” [starts to walk away]
Her: “Well, I am a little hungry for some Olive Garden.” 
I can’t believe she fell for that line of shit but she did.
GO ME!!
/was much younger when I did that.
We in management were sentenced to a sexual harrasment seminar Monday. why yes, it did stem from an “incident”. Think Disclosure, but imagine a Demi Moore 15 years older than Michael Douglas… and the only useful thing I learned is that our company officially “has no interest in what employees do consentually on their off time” but that sexual harrassment of a co-worker off the clock could get you in trouble too.
Hopefully your company also doesn’t care about employees dating.
As for advice, ask her if she’s seen [insert new popular movie of your choice] yet. If she says no, ask if she’d like to. (If she’s already seen it, ask what about [movie coming out], is she interested in that one?) If I were her, I’d say yes if I was at all interested in you
Damn you! You beat me to it!
wanders off wearing no pants
The Master has spoken.
Uh, separate bins, please.
Work=Work
Play=Play
Mixing people from both bins is problematic, especially in a biblical sense. Work is stressful enough without turning it into a bad rendition of Dawson’s Creek.
Don’t shit where you eat.
I’ve heard you approach them from behind…they’ve got good pheripheral vision and spook easily.
I work for State Government. The Rumors are true, there aren’t a whole lotta folks here I’d want to approach.
I guess I like it that way.
My dad’s opinion on romance between managers and subordinates was, “Keep your dick out of the till.”
Which reminds me of a joke involving a manager and a sales girl having a quickie behind the counter when a customer suddenly walks in- right at the point of no return- and the manager has to stick his dick into the till to hide it from the customer, while the sales girl hides below the counter.
The customer asks the manager why he’s looking so happy, and the manager replies:
“I’ve just come into some money.”
Thank you, I’m here all week. Try the Veal!
This should be instructive.
As it so happens I liked a girl at work who is now my wife. Its becoming more and more common these days because people just don’t have the time or inclination to go out and meet people anymore. For us it works out well, we’re in different parts of the building so I don’t see her most of the day (unless there is a computer problem). In fact, I’d even say there were some nice benefits. We used to ride to work together (schedules are different now since our daughter was born in January), we could take lunch together if we want, stuff like that. It could be considered risky in the sense that if the company goes under we’d both be out of a job.
Basically we started talking on the phone, hit it off, then started going out to places as friends. That evolved over a couple of years until we started officially dating. No problems developed but I could see how it might have been different if we broke up. Its always a risk, you may suffer a heavy price if the relationship goes sour.
Carefully.
It was said once, but bears repeating. You get one shot, and it has to be something a reasonable person won’t find offensive. If a reasonable person finds it offensive, or if you persist, it can be considered sexual harrassment.
For this reason, I suggest you tread carefully, start by initiating a friendship, and don’t make it a habitual practice (i.e. if you have to keep a list of all the girls you’ve asked out, you’ve gone too far).
The most amusing story I saw was a guy that spent a lot of time “fishing the company pond.” He dated a secretary in my department - and about 20 other women over the course of a year - a month after he dumped the woman in my department, he got engaged. The catfight almost got three people fired. She ended up quitting, the guys took her out for lunch, she got drunk and came back and told him exactly what she thought of him.
Don’t set yourself up for that.
Actually, that sounds like fun.
Thank you for that. It was, indeed, very instructive.
I just have to say that I love this post. Good advice for all men interested in a particular gal, but aren’t sure how to approach.
And as to the OP: I’ll echo the statements made before; you really should be cautious when thinking about dating a coworker. I worked at as a cook in a restaurant and dated a server for a time. After the breakup, working together was very awkward. Based on this experience, I probably wouldn’t date a girl from my workplace again.