[quote=njtosd] A male friend of mine who was having trouble making partner…yelled “REALLY??” and jumped on the back of the bike 🙂 .
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That’s hilarious. Did he ever make partner?
As for the rest of your post, you’re just talking common sense. I agree with basically all of what you say. (Although I think that while 99% of available women aren’t coworkers, that doesn’t change the fact that, if you add up each minute that you spend with an available woman, for most men somewhere between 50% and 95% of those minutes are with coworkers.)
As I said in my previous post:
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While never approaching a woman regarding sex in this scenario might be a wise policy, should it really be required?
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My problem is that we seem to have taken common sense out of it. It’s a black and white thing now. If you’re in a position of power, you can’t approach a woman in your company for sex without risking your entire career, regardless of any other circumstances.
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Even if she’s giving this hypothetical guy “the signals” – everyone knows that work relationships rarely end up well, and problems are almost unavoidable. Why open yourself up for that?
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Maybe to him the relationship ending up well isn’t important to him and maybe typical workplace-type post-romance problems are worth it to him. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about his career ending.