“The company covered the whole thing up and blamed me.
I quit before hitting my year mark.”
Their responses were WILD!
Here’s what people revealed:
1.
“He was my boss (who was married and expecting his first child).
We’d known each other for a while and had an incredibly strong connection from day one.
We were friends first, and he was my mentor.
He took a strong interest in growing me and promoted me several times within the office.
It started anytime we traveled together and drank and only escalated from there.
One night, he and I were drinking and wandering around a city.
We cuddled on a bench and agreed that it was best not to move forward.
“We snuck around the office and our spouses for two months and had the best/worst time.
He even told me he loved me.
I tried to end it before his child was born, but he promised nothing would change.
Not long after the baby was born, he became extremely distant and ended up ending things with me.
It did not go well, and he is no longer part of the team.”
Anonymous
2.
“I’ve actually had a few.
I had a coworker-with-benefits situation for pretty much my entire three years at one place.
He had a long-time girlfriend but was sleeping around.
We had incredible tension between us, and the physical side was great.
Neither of us wanted more, so it was a perfect coworkers-with-benefits situation.
PS: I also met my husband at work, but that played out very differently.”
They didn’t notice me, so I slipped out silently, despite the screaming in my head!
“The few weeks after the incident were probably the most awkward days I’ve ever experienced.
Nobody could stop talking about it, so we were all just perpetually humiliated with ourselves!”
“I work at an elementary school.
The (male) principal was going at it from behind.
They didn’t know anyone saw them until the district became involved much later.
Shockingly, no one lost their jobs.”
We’ll call them Laura and Megan.
Laura and I worked together.
Megan was out of town and said Laura and I could sleep together.
It was the first time I’d ever slept with a woman.
Well, I ended up falling in love with Laura after that night.
Megan didn’t like that and wanted us to stop being friends.
We didn’t want to stop, so we had an affair for a couple of months or so.
“This happened over 20 years ago for me.
I started seeing a coworker while we were both married.
It was fun until we had a work function, and our spouses were there.
I ended it pretty quickly after that.
AWKWARD!!!”
“I (female) had an affair with a woman at work.
It was super hot and fun at first.
We would make out in my office, after work, and all that.
We even had a threesome with a long-term partner of mine.
She lied about EVERYTHING.
Any trauma I told her about had also happened to her, no matter what it was.
She cheated on him and immediately got engaged to and pregnant by a new guy.
She drove a wedge between my friends and me.
It was a super messy year, and thankfully it’s over.
I learned my lesson.”
“Right before I started working at my current school, a counselor and someone in admin were engaged.
They had been engaged for about four years and dated longer before that.
The science teacher got wasted and confessed it to the receptionist behind the bar dumpster.
The counselor found out over text and got dumped by her fiance in the same way.”
“At the time, I was still in my early 20s.
I worked super long hours and had developed a crush on a coworker in his late 30s.
Things started easily enough.
girlfriend of four years.
He’d even answered her calls in the middle of the night.
At one point, they went on a trip together for tattoos.
Somewhere in this mix, he became incredibly manipulative and abusive.
“My husband and I had just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary with our kids.
My department lead was this woman I was so excited to work with.
She was cool, powerful, and absolutely gorgeous.
One night, the two of us were working late on a project, and we shared a kiss.
I had never done anything like this before and was almost too embarrassed to say anything.
We avoided each other for a little bit until one night, we kissed again.
Things heated up when we roomed together for a conference.
We loved each other so much and were so happy together.
Neither of us had ever been with a woman before, so this was new and exciting.
This continued for almost a year until it was announced that she was transferring to another department.
I was devastated, but we tried to keep it up.”
Cut to a few months later: She left the company.
I never found out what happened to her.
“Early childhood educator here.
Males in our field are RARE.
One year, our lone male teacher had not one but TWO workplace relationships that overlapped.
Fortunately, everyone is now happily married to other people.”
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12.
My coworker had wanted to end their relationship with their partner for a while and finally did.
However, they had been having an affair for a few months.
They also never told their partner about it.
The other coworker involved has no idea I know about this affair, and they probably never will.
I do not condone cheating, but I do understand that their secret is not for me to tell.
“It’s a difficult situation that could get very messy quickly.
Work relationships have unhappy and happy endings, depending on the situation.
“I was distracted and disengaged during my senior year of high school because of a workplace affair.
My mom and stepdad met and worked together in the mid-’90s.
I even babysat my now stepsiblings when they double-dated to their company holiday party with their respective spouses.
They became friends who leaned on each other regarding their individual marital problems…until it was more.
I make a run at claim ‘authority in marriage’ over them, though mostly just for fun.”
Sometimes, they’d disagree and wouldn’t talk to each other for their entire shift.
We all just assumed they were immature and couldn’t get along.
I was 18 and didn’t think he was into men, so I kind of brushed it off.
I thought he was devastatingly beautiful and didn’t mind the attention.
My manager told me about her new situationship and how she would see him in NYC for the day.
I confronted him about it the next day.
It turns out that my two managers have been on and off for a year.
He quit and texted me, saying he hated my guts.
The twist is that they stayed together.
Then, SHE quit with no notice and blocked everyone.
Last I heard, they’re still together.
The company covered the whole thing up and blamed me.
I quit before hitting my year mark.”
15.And: “It’s happening currently at my government job.
Two coworkers hooked up during a traveling event.
He is married, and she ‘gets around.’
I knew about it early and advised them to keep it out of the office.
Everything is super awkward.
Neither of them are good at hiding it.
After six months, everyone knows, but they blame me for snitching.
I didn’t, but now she is making my life hell, and he is awkward around everyone.
He has become super flaky, and she has become an intolerable witch.
The boss and management found out once they became the butt of all the office jokes.
It’s a problem because he tends to get assigned as a team lead.
She feels she can boss everyone around, including him, when he is in charge.
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