Love @ Work

First they termed it "team work"...now they call it a "tete-a-tete"! Thats the grudge most victims of office romance nurture. The romance is definitely not the ailment... its the sneers and jeers that come with it!...welcome to one relationship laden with controversy... the one where a "we are just colleague" becomes a little more than that!


..."and its the most natural thing to happen"...says one of friends..." i leave my parents behind and come down to a new city and stay in an apartment alone.The only people i can call my friends are my colleagues with whom i spend 10 to 12 hours per day... and then there is one amongst them who helps me with my technical queries. i find it nice to talk to him... we start having lunch together...& then hitting it out at movies and eating out..& talking all the more... obviously we went on to become more than colleagues"...its probably a similar kind of story in most cases...


...and then there is another of my friends who is all distraught..."thats the worst mistake i have ever committed in my life... ever since we have broken up, office is hell! both of us hate to see each other's face... and sitting in the same cubicle is such a pain... the team meetings are real testing especially when we have different points of view on the same subject... and then there is this inquisitive look on everyone's face!"...


...both are two sides of the same coin... a relationship at office can either be a pleasure or a pain...


...it could give you the added motivation(besides your monthly paycheck!) of waking up every morning and driving to your workplace... the tea-breaks could be all the more refreshing( and not because of the tea!)...& you could even like to stay back after office hours or even come in over the weekends(doing good to your company's profitability after all!:-) ) ... you get to spend a lot of time with the person you want to stay with the most( after all you spend

half of your day in office!) and then, just knowing that the person is hitting the keys of a PC in the same building is spending time with him...


...and with all that hush-hush mushy thing happening , u suddenly find yourself the object of strange stares... and the whole world( your workplace i mean!) knows... and your boss couldn't remain ignorant either!!!...and then,you have to put in that added effort to keep him pleased... the number of tea breaks and the number of phone calls goes down... and you get that "missing" feeling and find it hard to concentrate... that's all a part of it!


...and the worst happens if the relationship goes bitter!It could even be worse than the account i have given earlier... I know of two people who worked together and fell in love ...& then the female fell out of it and fell in again but with another person... and the colleague in question was a geek who did everything from hacking her PC to destroying her reports and making office life miserable for her. She had no other option but to quit.


...not to end in such a daunting note, i also know of colleagues who fell in love,are happily married and are the best of friends!


...but then, there is no denying that this is one relationship that will never cease to be a point of controversy... when you kind of start falling for the person who sits at the next PC , you must have said at least once to yourself "only if she was not my colleague!"...but its right there where you contradict yourself... if she hadn't been your colleague there wouldn't have been this day where you need to tell this to yourself!...


...anyways, take it or give it a miss ...the choice is yours!!!