Nah, not you, Infovore. Our new Doper friend silentwatch2 did that.
Welcome aboard, silentwatch2!
On the same topic but something I have noticed about myself is that if I am at work or in some kind of group the initial lust seems to wear off pretty quickly and I start to view my co-workers almost as I do a family member. A new employee may start and I will have the lust thing going on but it quickly dissipates. The big exception to this would be the local bar and coffee hangouts.
The only exceptions to this that I can think of are in cases where the person in question doesn't seem to fit in and proably won't be around long anyway.Married one. Seven years. Lived witjh another. Five years.
Helped both buy houses. Self living in rented one-room apartment. Bitter? 
Anyway, too late now, but no more for this little black duck.
Never shared so much as a sloppy kiss with a co-worker, but have definitely had the hots for a few along the way. Have I mentioned that a fair number of government statisticians are young, female, and damned good-looking?
Speaking for myself: many, many times. I have worked with some really hawt babes in the past.
But I had to satisfy myself with just a look and a lust. Babes at work were strictly hands-off for me before I retired. And that is, of course, assuming that was during a period of my life when I was playing the field.
When I worked as an inside sales rep at FedEx, one of the team leaders had managed to populate his team almost entirely with hot twentysomethings, mostly blonde. (He was a lawsuit waiting to happen and eventually got fired for watching porn at work.) I wasn’t on his time (being neither twentysomething, blonde, white, nor female), but because of space considerations I had to sit very near them. It was impossible NOT to be tempted.
My intern at my last job - god that kid was good looking. I’m WAY too old for him and WAY too married AND his boss and a hell of a lot of other reasons that I wouldn’t EVER do more than be silently and respectfully appreciative…but one day one of my other female coworkers came up to me and said “How can you even have a conversation with Justin, I’d just sit there and drool” and I laughed and said “it really isn’t easy.”
(He was also really good at the job he did - one of the project managers hired him into a full time job - and not just because he could sit around and look good. I was really happy for him, he did deserve the full time permanent gig)
My wife works with me (she = surgery nurse; I = clinic director), so yeah, all the time.
But that isn’t what you were asking about.
I develop fleeting workplace crushes all the time, but they tend to be playful personality-based infatuation rather than physical lust, and no, I wouldn’t act on them even if I weren’t married. Maybe when I was 22 and didn’t value my job as highly as I do now.
Tempted? Oh, yes. Never quite managed to advance beyond that, despite a few attempts.
When I was 25, I had a bureaucratic job in a state office. It was beyond boring.
The mail clerk was around my age, super-cute, witty, and a lot of fun to talk with. The highlight of my day was when he’d come around in the morning, drop off my mail, and hang out with me for a few minutes.
He seemed to like me as much as I liked him, and I could tell he was working his way up to asking me out. Awesome!
Then, one morning, he asked me if I “actually believed all this evolution stuff” and whether I’d had the incomparably wonderful experience of accepting Jesus as my Lord and savior.
My Jewish, agnostic, biology-degree having self was deeply disappointed. I started making runs for coffee for the office as soon as I heard the mail trolley rattling towards my area. Feh.
Clearly you haven’t met my co-workers :eek:
Me: corporate 40-something white dude, was married when I met:
Her: 8 years my junior, African American super smart hottie. Awesome body, great looks, but our styles clashed at first.
Over time, mutual respect at work as we worked on projects together, a little innocent flirty behavior, people began to refer to her as my “work wife”. Unrelated to this, my wife and I were deciding to separate after 20 some years of marriage. Honestly, it WAS unrelated. Unbeknownst to me, my wife had been unfaithful for over a year before this.
Flirting led to a little more flirting, and with a little more “real” to it. Then… we were assigned to a project that involved a 4 day business trip out of town. We stayed at the same hotel, went to dinner together, and sealed the deal the first night we were there. Every night the rest of that trip, one of us was heading back to their room before breakfast. Damn, that was a fun week. We both were very comfortable with each other, and, ahem, it showed.
We kept at it for a while when we got back, but we both knew it wasn’t something that would go over well if it became known at the office. Work wife is okay, but work fuck-buddy is not. After about three months we decided that we had to make it public, or we had to shut it down. We decided to shut it down. I wasn’t ready for a long term relationship (after 20 plus years of marriage) and she wanted more than a casual thing. We let it cool, and all was good. We both handled it maturely, and remain good friends.
She has since moved to another city and to another company, neither related to our tryst.
I freelance, and work from home. One of my clients is the company my girlfriend works for, and she also works from home. So yes, I totally want to bang a co-worker with whom I share working space.
Well, you all know the stuff I’m going through with an ex-employer, and I never had a job I really liked. I didn’t really like the people at any job I had. Looking back, I was tempted, but I’m sure glad I didn’t follow through knowing their backstabby nature.
However, if I had a job I liked and liked the people I worked with, it might be different.
I have given in to the temptation in a former job.
There was a lot of staff turnover in that company which meant that we would have several new colleagues every 2-3 months. Half of the staff, including me, was between 22 and 40 which led to some interesting situations.
One day, I met one of the new employees who looked not unlike Callisto from the Xena TV show. We started talking and after some 20 minutes, the conversation was turning kind of flirty. However, I had an appointment so I had to leave. I didn’t see her for several weeks after that and quite frankly stopped thinking about her. But when we did meet again, the sexual tension was immediately clear. The third time I saw her, she told me to wait for her after work. And the rest is history…
It was just physical attraction so we didn’t stay together for very long. She was fired a few weeks later for totally unrelated reasons.
People often say that office romances are verboten, but IME it’s definitely one of the primary ways that people hook up. The number of times I’ve had people say to me they’d never date someone at work, only for exactly that to happen.
In my own case, I’m currently in an office with many beautiful women. The only thing stopping me from dating any of them is, well, them.
Never had the chance, but in my old job, holy Hannah were there some hotties. Shame that most of them were married…
College days, hell yes. In the dorm kitchen, cleaning the industrial size griddle alongside a very attractive co worker. The job is quite physical and sort of requires you to thrust your crotch into the warm face of the griddle while you do it, whilst looking at your sex goddess coworker do the same. Good thing that was about the last thing we did on a shift, as a cold shower was definitely in order.
Nowadays, hell no. The women in my office could kill a boner more efficiently than Lorena Bobbit.
No temptation. I’m in a male-dominated profession (no good reason for that other than tradition, but it’s still a fact). The women in it that I’ve worked with have all developed, well, call it desexualizing behavioral strategies to be treated as professionals instead of dealing with guys’ shit all the time.
Or maybe it’s only been *my *shit. 
Oh yeah, I have. It was thrilling and lots of fun. Wouldn’t recommend it to everyone though, too risky.