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Friends, with Valentine's Day coming up, I asked you to tell me whether you've ever had a fling at work and, if so, how it turned out. Whew... Thanks to all who wrote, including those who haven't yet had the pleasure but wouldn't mind trying. "I'm 39 and single and never had any opportunities for office romances," writes one wistful reader. "If there had been, I'd have gone for the romance and looked for a new position elsewhere. Let's face it, a job doesn't love you back." Too true. Among those who have gotten amorously involved with a co-worker, the outcomes range all the way from happily-ever-after to, well, the kind of thing that our human resources departments try to warn us about. "I went out with a colleague for two years and, when I broke off the relationship, she retaliated by trying to get me fired," recalls someone signed Never Again. "Luckily my boss saw what was really going on and I kept my job. But I learned my lesson: Love and work don't mix." Okay then. A few more tales of woe:
"I used to work in a television-station newsroom, where I and a co-worker had one of those proverbial high-octane office romances. It only lasted about six weeks, but when the end came, it was uncomfortable for both of us.... Even though we weren't seeing each other, we had to work together뾫ot ten feet apart뾵hich made it INCREDIBLY worse. We were both relieved when she took a job in another city." "My worst ever was a very paranoid man I dated for about six months. A friend of mine happened to live on the same street he lived on and, after we broke up, he accused me of stalking him every time I visited my friend. He even got a bogus restraining order slapped on me, which was dropped after I got both our bosses and the HR department involved. His career was affected more than mine: His boss never trusted him again, and eventually he left the company."
"A tip for your readers: If you're going to date a colleague, do not ever indulge in any hanky-panky at work, even late at night with your office door locked. A former love of mine and I did this once and were horrified when the cleaning lady (who of course had a key) walked in on us. The next day she told my sweetie she would tell our boss what she had seen unless we gave her 'a really nice Christmas present.' This was blackmail of course but we paid her off. As far as I know, she never said a word, but we sweated over it for months."
Yikes. According to many of you, hooking up with a colleague can be a mixed blessing. Writes one reader who is engaged to marry a woman he works with: "We've become much better employees. If I miss a meeting, for instance, she can fill me in on it (or vice versa), and we're always bouncing ideas off each other. It's like 24/7 cross-training." The downside: "Having both of our incomes dependent on a single employer (which is a startup, no less) isn't the most risk-free financial move. At some point, one of us should move on to a different company, but it will be hard to say who or when."
Diehard romantics will be glad to hear that some office romances are just plain sweet. Writes a techie named Bob: "I was trying to migrate all my users to a Windows NT SQL server, and I found that one particular user had caused a syntax error by entering a password that was actually a date (month, day, and year)뾞 violation of our password policy. So off I went to find this person, who worked in accounting. 'May I help you?,' she said. I said, 'We need to talk about your password. I'm Bob from IT.' " And off we went. I went down there to give her a piece of my mind. Little did I know she was going to take the whole thing. We've been married now for seven years. Life is good."
Q1) If you fall in love with your coworker. Please share your ideas to avoid any trouble and to lead to marriage?
Q2) What about when two people in the same company become good friends and they, along with their spouses, frequently get together socially?
Q3) If you were the HR manger at your company, and your company had some couples who could affect on your company’s work. How do you handle those cases?
Q4) Find out what problems an office romance can cause for the couple, their employers, and co-workers. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? An office romance interferes their jobs, and affects decision-making?
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Friends, with Valentine's Day coming up, I asked you to tell me whether you've ever had a fling at work and, if so, how it turned out. Whew... Thanks to all who wrote, including those who haven't yet had the pleasure but wouldn't mind trying. "I'm 39 and single and never had any opportunities for office romances," writes one wistful reader. "If there had been, I'd have gone for the romance and looked for a new position elsewhere. Let's face it, a job doesn't love you back." Too true. Among those who have gotten amorously involved with a co-worker, the outcomes range all the way from happily-ever-after to, well, the kind of thing that our human resources departments try to warn us about. "I went out with a colleague for two years and, when I broke off the relationship, she retaliated by trying to get me fired," recalls someone signed Never Again. "Luckily my boss saw what was really going on and I kept my job. But I learned my lesson: Love and work don't mix." Okay then. A few more tales of woe:
"I used to work in a television-station newsroom, where I and a co-worker had one of those proverbial high-octane office romances. It only lasted about six weeks, but when the end came, it was uncomfortable for both of us.... Even though we weren't seeing each other, we had to work together뾫ot ten feet apart뾵hich made it INCREDIBLY worse. We were both relieved when she took a job in another city." "My worst ever was a very paranoid man I dated for about six months. A friend of mine happened to live on the same street he lived on and, after we broke up, he accused me of stalking him every time I visited my friend. He even got a bogus restraining order slapped on me, which was dropped after I got both our bosses and the HR department involved. His career was affected more than mine: His boss never trusted him again, and eventually he left the company."
"A tip for your readers: If you're going to date a colleague, do not ever indulge in any hanky-panky at work, even late at night with your office door locked. A former love of mine and I did this once and were horrified when the cleaning lady (who of course had a key) walked in on us. The next day she told my sweetie she would tell our boss what she had seen unless we gave her 'a really nice Christmas present.' This was blackmail of course but we paid her off. As far as I know, she never said a word, but we sweated over it for months."
Yikes. According to many of you, hooking up with a colleague can be a mixed blessing. Writes one reader who is engaged to marry a woman he works with: "We've become much better employees. If I miss a meeting, for instance, she can fill me in on it (or vice versa), and we're always bouncing ideas off each other. It's like 24/7 cross-training." The downside: "Having both of our incomes dependent on a single employer (which is a startup, no less) isn't the most risk-free financial move. At some point, one of us should move on to a different company, but it will be hard to say who or when."
Diehard romantics will be glad to hear that some office romances are just plain sweet. Writes a techie named Bob: "I was trying to migrate all my users to a Windows NT SQL server, and I found that one particular user had caused a syntax error by entering a password that was actually a date (month, day, and year)뾞 violation of our password policy. So off I went to find this person, who worked in accounting. 'May I help you?,' she said. I said, 'We need to talk about your password. I'm Bob from IT.' " And off we went. I went down there to give her a piece of my mind. Little did I know she was going to take the whole thing. We've been married now for seven years. Life is good."
Q1) If you fall in love with your coworker. Please share your ideas to avoid any trouble and to lead to marriage?
Q2) What about when two people in the same company become good friends and they, along with their spouses, frequently get together socially?
Q3) If you were the HR manger at your company, and your company had some couples who could affect on your company’s work. How do you handle those cases?
Q4) Find out what problems an office romance can cause for the couple, their employers, and co-workers. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? An office romance interferes their jobs, and affects decision-making?
이 글은「대학연합영어토론동아리」www.pioneerclub.com에서 제공하는 영어토론 정보입니다.
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