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So I wasn’t very interested at all in the David Letterman sex scandal. It’s the same old story of someone having sex with their coworker. Okay, this story had a little extra kick with the extortion angle but all in all there are better scandals out there.

Now, Jimmy Kimmel is dating his coworker Molly McNearney, a longtime staffer on his ABC show. For several months the pair have been keeping this on the down low and I don’t like Jimmy Kimmel either (in fact I cant stand late night talk shows) but good for him (I still think Sarah Silverman out trumps any bitches.)

But this got me to thinking, should I sleep with a co-worker? Problem is I have a start up company so it is just me, myself and I and so far in my employee manual there are no rules about masturbating so I am safe with that.

No but seriously, I had to Google “rules on dating co-workers” and I pulled up what seem to be some unofficial/official rules from http://www.employer-employee.com/.

These may help you before you decide you are horny for your co-worker or they may not because when it comes to sex, there seems to be no rules these days.

- Before you ask the co-worker in the next cubicle out for a date, first check to see if your company has an employee dating policy (uh, who wants to read that….)

- "No means no!" One more time: "no" means "no!" Do not repeatedly ask the same co-worker out for a date. (Why not?)

- Develop an office relationship before you develop a romantic relationship (Does that mean sex in the office?)

- Realize that in reality relationships do not work out like they do on TV (um, on reality TV they don’t work out…)

- Develop open communication. When you are dating a coworker you have what is called a "dual relationship." A dual relationship means that you have two different types of relationships (business and romantic) with the same person (Duh, duh, duh…)

- Agree not to flirt at work (why not? That’s so much fun.)


Until next time,
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