Are men really that desperate that they'd want to date people at work?

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Do they not know any women outside of work?
Do they not have any friends/relatives?

As long as they're not part of the same team or management hierarchy then what's your problem.

You should have dated a friend or relative. 😂

Edited to add - though people who have met randomly at work or elsewhere have found by DNA tests or accident that their spouse is a distant relative.

Management dating staff is strongly discouraged where I work. Of course it goes on all the time and usually the manager gets moved to another store when they either disclose the relationship or it’s discovered.

Do you think they should be saying their friends or relatives?

Men aren't a homogeneous group you know. What a ridiculous thing to say.

Are women really that desperate that they'd want to date people at work?
Do they not know any men outside of work?
Do they not have any friends/relatives?

Why couldn't this have been your thread? Surely if men date women at work, there are women who date men? Why are the men to blame? I mean, I know on MN, "men" are the root of all problems, but not sure why they are getting the stick for this one?

A man likes a woman at work so asks them out, woman says either yes or no. Same as a woman likes a man at work so asks them out, man says either yes or no. No? What am I missing?💁

What's this latest nonsense??

I don't think they're "desperate" when they hit on me. I just think they're
f🔱¢king annoying!

I met my husband at work. I wasn't desperate, nor was he.

We've lived happily ever after thank you very much.

If anything, online dating could be seen as desperate. Having to meet someone that way used to be viewed as very desperate and dysfunctional. A lot of posts on Mn are from women asking advice about losers they invariably met online. Surely most normal, happy people meet their partner socially or through work. That's far from desperate.

Move along please, nothing to see here.

What an odd post. My husband and I met at work and have now been married over 30 years.

It used to be very normal before everyone used online dating.

Not as weird as meeting on-line

Desperate : judgemental!

Workmates make a better date than relatives.

So the OP thinks MEN are desperate if they date someone they met at work. If you go with her (totally batshit) way of thinking surely that means women are equally desperate 🤔

I'd say dating someone you know from work is perfectly normal.

Could the thread title replace 'men' with 'women'?

Are they 'desperate' too??

I met a boyfriend via work... And it was me who asked him out!! Does that make me the desperate one then???!!! 😂 I'd say it was very common to meet someone through work, after all we spend a lot of our time at our place of work.

Why do you see a normal way of meeting a person as "desperate" OP?

With your happy go lucky attitude, I'm sure they are lining up. 😂

What's with all these weird threads at the moment?

I'm 50, I've met all my partners since I was 18 through work

I'd say it's probably one of the most common ways to meet a partner. I can't imagine why dating their own relatives would be preferable to colleagues who who've made friends with over a time?

I knew as soon as I read the opening post that this would be one of those goady threads with no further replies from the OP.

I used to work for a major bank at head office and there were four married couples on our floor alone.