Her current job is driving her nuts.
She got her second call back, and it seems very likely they’ll hire her.
If they do, the position she’s filling will (by coincidence) put her in the only desk in the office that I have a direct line-of-sight to.
Have any of you ever done this? How’d it work out? (Don’t spare me any gory details.) 
Just to be clear, we already spend sixteen hours a day together. (So far it hasn’t seemed like too much.)
Will you be in close contact at work, or just together for lunch?
If it is close contact, working “cheek by jowl” then it will likely be too much. Everyone needs some space.
However, if you two agree to a “boys and girls night out” where each of you goes out and does something once a week without the other, it might be OK. :dubious:
Do you get along well? Seriously, if you have a volatile relationship at home, it will carry over to work.
My husband and I worked together, lived together, commuted together, ate lunch together and at one point, were the only two employees at a company for 5 years. We never had a problem.
We weren’t high drama though.
I will warn you, it can build complacency. Make sure even if you work together, that you still have a life apart from work.
I had an anxiety attack just reading that, so I’m not be the best person to offer advice, but I do have a few questions. Does whoever is hiring her know she’s your girlfriend? How long have you been together? And how strongly do you feel about keeping your work and personal lives separated? Are you the kind of person who is very friendly with your coworkers, or the sort who flinches in horror when people share overly personal information in the office?
May you live in interesting times has come to your door.
I just hope you have something that you like to do separately (she goes bowling while you go to your book club, or something). And that you are both very mellow and get along really well.
Any little sharp edge you guys have is going to grind you to the core.
I’m currently not applying to a job because my SO would be on the same floor, though not in the same department. Entirely depends on your personality. At my current job, there’s a husband-wife team in one department. She’s department head, and he’s a programmer. My SO and I couldn’t do that sort of thing.
Is that you, Paul?
You need to get her not hired. Guys around here at work unintentionally also use this time get away from their wives.
It is still forbidden to put Dopers in the Celebrity Death Pool? 
My fiancee and I do work at the same company, doing the same job for the same Team Leaders. We get along fine. It’s been great fun, but we both knew from the beginning it would only be temporary, as I’m going back to school in September.
My (now) husband and I have worked no more than 4 desks apart for about the last five years. It’s perfect for us, in fact my being on maternity leave this past 6 months has given me renewed insight into what ‘normal’ folks do. Lets just say that’s the only thing I’m looking forward to about this maternity leave ending.
Like others have said, it’s a personality thing, and I believe to a certain extent it’ll either work for you or it won’t. One thing I noticed is that we never put an artificial barrier up, but we did gradually evolve a split between work and home time and conversations and we do keep the two relatively separate. It’s also waaaaay too easy to find yourself working ridiculous hours - since the thing you’d be wanting to go home to is sat a few feet away, it doesn’t seem so urgnt that you leave.
Ouff! That’s one thing I hadn’t thought of – I already have a tendency to work too much OT (easier because we currently work staggered shifts so the house is empty anyway) and I know her job will also have plenty of opportunity for OT. Hmm.
I’m not too anxious about it, mostly (or I would never have brought her resume in.) We get along very well. I’ve never spent so much time in someone else’s company without feeling a strain at all at all. And although there is that line-of-sight thing, the positions don’t overlap much. I will have to ask her for a report once a month, and that’s about it. She may occassionally need me to locate documents for her. I have very little interaction with the woman who is doing the job now. (Although I am listening to her voice at this very moment – that might be weird. Happily, I love my girlfriend’s voice and never tire of it.)
The main thing, I think, is that her presence in the office will pressure me to hussle more than anything else. (We have zero supervision here.) She’s totally “East Coast” and I spend a lot of time trying to convince her (and myself) that I’m not that stereotypically “West Coast.”
Damn, I’ve got to get back to work.
Sorry to skip over this - how rude…
Yes, my bosses know about our relationship and have discussed the fiddly bits in detail – what would have to happen if the relationship dissolved, how likely/unlikely that is, etc. I think it’s all cool there. We have been together for around a year, but (for me at least) it seems more serious than relationships I’ve had that lasted much longer. Not just “hanging out,” she makes me all-over-domestic and I think it may be mutual. Maybe we have both just reached that certain age, I dunno.
I’m pretty friendly with folks in the office – and I flinch in horror when people overshare. (Don’t get me started on my last boss, who used to go on at length about his prostate. Threads about my own plumbing notwithstanding - that’s different, of course. Heh.)
Update: She’s officially hired, and has given her notice at her current job this morning.
Woot!
I wondered if I was the only one.
Good luck, Larry. Keep us posted!
My husband and I work for the same company, and it’s worked out well. We generally only see each other at lunchtime, though. Our company has a lot of married couples, and one engaged couple that I know of.
However, my boss does seem to have a little difficulty with the arrangement sometimes (even though she was the one who told my husband about the job and begged him to have me apply!) For example, she got angry with him recently for telling me about some new workstations that we were getting. 
I did it with my wife for a couple of years and it was probably the second worst experience of my life. Her family owned the company though and she is an executive VP. The different roles really screwed things up and they are just now starting to get back to normal again 3 years later. I would never consider such a thing under any circumstances again.
My now-ex reapplied to the university where I work (and she used to work). I thank Og that the places she might have gone for in the school where I work are filled :o
I have to admit that I don’t get it at all.
Don’t give the Lady a pay raise on your own say-so.
trust me on this.