# How many co-workers have you slept with? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980 "2008-08-14T14:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/61 "2008-08-15T13:25:32Z")
2 - both in my current job (and one of whom I worked with at the time too, but he was only a temp so wasn’t expecting him to be around long). The other one I’m still friends with and we flirt sometimes but have never had a repeat. Probably won’t either. Those 2 are roughly about 1% of my total number of partners. As dale said earlier, gay guys have it much much easier 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/62 "2008-08-15T14:44:49Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] None. Nobody loves me. [/QUOTE] Cheer up. Coprophiles are rare, but they’re out there. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/63 "2008-08-15T17:35:14Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] Well, my husband and I worked for the same company for about 6 months, but we were already married. [/QUOTE] Yep, my wife briefly worked for the newspaper I edited out in Oregon. She had a Saturday morning paper route until she found more permanent employment. For two weeks I could brag that I was nailin’ the hot chick in circulation. It wasn’t really that funny, but it made our teen-age son roll his eyes so hard they clicked, and that was pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/64 "2008-08-15T17:48:32Z")
One. Didn’t end that well…tough to work with him afterward, so it’s not something I’ll repeat again. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/65 "2008-08-15T19:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Cheer up. Coprophiles are rare, but they’re out there. [/QUOTE] _I’ve_ always liked you, **GuanoLad**. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/66 "2008-08-15T21:31:45Z")
Two. One was really bad. He made me feel sick all the time, since I got to watch him flirt with our other coworker (with whom he eventually cheated on me). That’s when I started to see what people were talking about when they say not to date your coworkers. It was a call center where everyone dated everyone else all the time so it wasn’t out of the ordinary. That was several years ago, and I am over it now. You’d think I would have learned after that, but when a coworker I’d had a crush on for months asked me out, and subsequently revealed he’d had a crush on me for over a year, I definitely couldn’t say no! So he turned out to be awesome, and we’re moving in together by the end of September. 🙂 We work in support, but it’s not a call center, it’s internal. We both work on the same team, though I’m pretty sure he’ll be promoted soon. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/67 "2008-08-15T21:44:10Z")
I guess technically my wife is sort of a co-worker (we both sing in the same two professional choirs and I sub in her school district), so, one. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/68 "2008-08-15T22:20:39Z")
just the one, but I too work with my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/69 "2008-08-15T22:31:45Z")
1 Still ongoing. Seems to be working out quite well. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/70 "2008-08-15T23:50:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] _I’ve_ always liked you, **GuanoLad**. [/QUOTE] We are relegated to the “aromatic” corner, though. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/71 "2008-08-16T15:24:17Z")
Two. The first was a woman I had a crush on for years, then it all seemed to come together in the space of a couple weeks. I was in heaven. I blissfully ignored my co-worker’s warnings (“Stay away from her–she’s just using you!”). They were right…she broke my heart several times in an on-again, off-again drama that lasted several years. The second time worked out better. Our “romantic” relationship didn’t last, but we’ve been best friends since we broke up 8 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/72 "2008-08-16T15:45:21Z")
At the same time? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/73 "2008-08-16T15:51:38Z")
None. Opportunitys on the oil rig are a little … limited. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/74 "2008-08-16T15:52:50Z")
None, kissed one co worker when I was young but that’s as far as it ever went. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/75 "2008-08-16T16:20:07Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] None. Opportunitys on the oil rig are a little … limited. [/QUOTE] I’m willing to bet there are opportunities aplenty, just not ones you want to pursue. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ready29003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@ready29003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ready29003)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/76 "2008-08-16T17:15:27Z")
Let’s see, I am going to count any makeout/ sexual action as one… I’ve had some sexual action with only…5 different women in my life…wow… Two of them I met at work… Both were bad ideas. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/77 "2008-08-16T22:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] All of them. [/QUOTE] Which is now awkward because we used to work together. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/78 "2008-08-18T05:22:36Z")
Slept with none, but did some kissing and groping with a couple of them. The last one was when I was in college still, and if the workplace hadn’t closed down about 6 months later it could have been bad in the long term. She got jealous of the girlfriend I met a few weeks after our last make-out session. That, and since she was married with kids it could have turned into a very bad situation. I would avoid doing anything with anyone I work with now. Besides which, I’m married, so I’ve got another very strong incentive not to do anything stupid. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/79 "2008-08-18T15:11:58Z")
Just one! Had to marry the boy, make an honest man out of him and all 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980/80 "2008-08-18T15:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] None. Opportunitys on the oil rig are a little … limited. [/QUOTE] I’m waiting to hear what **Qadgop the Mercotan** and **Little Nemo** have to say. As for myself: none. I’ve got a huge blind spot about things like that–even before I was married, most of the time it never would even have crossed my mind to ask a coworker out, for some reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-co-workers-have-you-slept-with/459980.md?page=5)