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Couples at work

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  • 16-07-2009 1:44pm
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    LegacyUser
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    Does anyone else here have to deal with couples who work together?

    I mean, when they do 'couple-ey' things together , in the office...

    Tis weird!


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    Otis Driftwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Seen it in the past alright,swooning over eachother that kind of crap.Its gag inducing.

    Just try and ignore it and wait for the fireworks if it goes tits up,that makes for a much more interesting atmosphere.;)


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    Varkov
    Registered Users Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Varkov


    I work with a chap who''s getting married to a bird in another department, he lives with her allready.

    They're both hard workers and lovely people, but I wonder how they're not sick of eachother!


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    Eoin
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    Uncomfortable wrote: »
    Does anyone else here have to deal with couples who work together?

    I mean, when they do 'couple-ey' things together , in the office...

    Tis weird!

    That drives me mental. I work with a couple, but they are completely professional about it. I didn't even know they were a couple actually, until one of them said so on a night out.

    How bad are the couple you work with? It's just not appropriate at all to be all smoochy at work.


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    Varkov
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    eoin wrote: »
    That drives me mental. I work with a couple, but they are completely professional about it. I didn't even know they were a couple actually, until one of them said so on a night out.

    Would have been funny if you were puttin the moves on her.


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    Scubachick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Scubachick


    DH and I work for the same organisation. It was only after I had accepted the job and handed in my notice at the old place that HR said we would never be placed in the same office together - probably coz she never wanted to see any "coupley" stuff you talk about. I can understand that - I would hate to see it myself. Even outside of work we are not into PDAs.

    We now work in offices 2 hours apart and both have an hour commute. This was not part of the whole "move to the country and work together in a small town" plan! :mad: But I am grateful that I have a job.


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    The Big Red Button
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    I think it would depend on the two individuals in question, rather than the fact that they're a couple. What I mean is, you could get a couple who are totally professional and don't let their relationship affect their work in any way, or I can also see how some couples could be very irritating to work with.

    But at the same time, you could be working with two people who are very close friends, and they could allow their personal relationship to interfere with their work just as easily as a couple could.

    One couple I worked with were totally professional as part of the job, but they were quite lovey-dovey in the canteen on breaks etc. It didn't bother me or anyone else at all, but of course it would have been totally inappropriate if they did it in front of customers.


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    doolox
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    I was once out at a works function and thought I had struck it lucky when a woman was all over me until a co-worker warned me off to the fact she was the bosses wife and was well known to cause trouble like this with her husbands workers just for the hell of it. I pitied the man after that for having such a bitch as a wife and thanked my lucky stars as he was a type not to suffer fools gladly and could have made things very difficult for me in the workplace.


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