10 Reasons To Avoid Dating A Co-Worker
6. Reduced Efficiency
Although the initial days of romance will be totally lovey-dovey, it will surely affect your performance at work, because your mind will be preoccupied with their thoughts. If you are in the same department and sit within close proximity, one’s absence may affect the other’s work. Also, chatting all the time with your loved one and sending messages may also take up your time. And you may end up sitting late at office or delivering low-quality work. If your colleagues or seniors know of your relationship, they might attribute your failure to perform to your newly-bloomed relationship. This will reduce your reliability quotient in office.
7. Different Status
If you are dating a junior or senior colleague, both ways, it’s going to be difficult for you. If it’s a senior colleague, you will have to report to them every now and then. At times, it is also expected from them to take up your case if you happen to mess up with your work. Such a situation is, indeed, embarrassing for the two of you. If your lover is your junior colleague, then, you have to be ready for some insecurity and resentment. No matter how much time you give them, if you happen to be stuck up late at office to complete a task, they won’t understand it.
8. Difficult Breakup
If things run on smoothly, you are lucky. But, if God forbid, your relationship ends up in a breakup, it would be an even more embarrassing situation to tackle. You both will have to face each other, even after the breakup. The end result would be, one of you will have to quit the job and look out for a new place. If you are able to find a better job, nothing better than that. But, if you don’t, you will mess up with your future.
9. Sexual Harassment
If you end up falling in love with the wrong person and you happen to make out with them, it may happen that your love making may turn into sexual harassment. What’s more, you would find it awkward to even complain about it because people would assume the fact that it happens in a relationship and ignore your pleads.
10. Impact on Career
Last but not the least, a relationship that blooms in the workplace always affects your career. Think of this, if you have to face a bad experience, you will have to go through a difficult phase. Because of your lost reputation, your seniors would find it difficult to recommend you to a different department and you will be left with no choice. Since you are forced to quit the job, you will find it difficult to find a new one. If all these incidents affect your mental make up, this will push your career towards the downside.
Although the repercussions of dating a co-worker do exist, one really cannot help falling in love! It is advised to keep heartbeats in control at your workplace and giving it a thought before making the final move.
