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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: What's wrong with dating people at work?
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:06:16 EDT
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> From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
>                          Why is it important to keep work and home so
> separate?

	I can think of at least two reasons.  The first is that if one of
{home,work} falls apart, the other often does too.  How easily can YOU work
with somebody, when the mere sight of that person can bring on a crying fit?
The second may not apply to everybody, but I personally need a certain amount
of time away from my SO.  It's not much, but 'round the clock proximity can
get to be aggravating after a while.  For me, work time is spent in "chicken-
with-its-head-cut-off mode" and is as a result a good time for the SO to be
somewhere else.
	I am defining "working with" somebody as actually having to interact
with that person on the job.  Somebody whose office is on another floor, and
who is in a different division, is another story.  I have no problem there.

> From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
> This is a good policy for someone who puts his career first in his life.
> But if I thought I had the opportunity to meet the woman of my dreams,
> I wouldn't let a mere _JOB_ get in the way.

	I suppose if you had been a friend to this person for some time, and
KNEW that she was the woman of your dreams, that would be one thing.  But
think -- how many times have you met a woman who seemed like the answer to
your prayers?  I have a couple times.  I am no longer seeing any of these
dream women.  Wouldn't it be a drag to endanger your job for a dream lady,
and end up with neither?

jon

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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
{seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon		(Thanks to CU CS department)