Workplace Romances - how was yours found out?

[SashaFierce]

Inspired by a thread I have been following so just curious?

Oh I got the wrong end of the thread!!

Mine didn't get caught out but was a weird circumstance when someone i never thought I'd see again ended up being my director in an occupation neither was in all those years ago!

Well, my boss saw us snogging in a nightclub the evening we got together, so the cat was out of the bag with him immediately, although lots of other colleagues didn't have a clue until they saw us together at the Christmas party ten months later. And even then, someone said "I thought you were coming with your boyfriend?"

Luckily we worked in an office with lots of young, single twenty somethings and such goings-on were common. We are one of about five or six couples long-term couples who met there.

We're married now, BTW.

Never had a workplace romance, but I did have a crush on someone I worked with when I was 16/17. Everyone knew despite me not saying anything and used to tease me/us about it constantly. Looking back I suppose there was a lot of chemistry there.

We never got together back then but I got speaking to him years later and it turned out he did fancy me as well and then we were friends for a while - as I was completely over fancying him and didn't see him like that any more - and then he said that he did still fancy me and I was like Oh... maybe I do as well and we are now together! So maybe our colleagues knew about our romance before we did.

As we left work for Christmas now-Dh grabbed my hand in front of all his colleagues and pretty much towed me to his car. Which was porbably a clue LOL.

When we went back I just went up to my own line manager the Sales Director and told them this is what's happening, won't affect anything, and walked off.

About a week later showed off engagement ring adn that was it really. Found out the FD and Sales manager had both been planning to ask me out. Which was odd as the last time i'd been single previously i'd not had an offer in a year. Hey ho!

Such lovely stories!

Ours was outed by a colleague who couldn't help but interfere in everyone elses business. We didn't tell our boss for a few months and just met secretly outside of work. Our boss at the time thought that we should be together and kept pestering the two of us to sort ourselves out!

Once the interfering one started making really obvious remarks, I asked to be moved to a different part of the office because we were together and I could see that she was going to cause trouble for me. The boss had no idea we were together as it never affected our working relationship and offered to move the other girl!

We have been together 19 years this year and I still remember all the secret meetings we had - quite sweet really ;)

Ingrid - that's how my friend got outed. She was looking in her purse for the right money to put in the vending machine and her (secret) DP walked past and handed her a coin. She just smiled rather than said thankyou.

And that was enough for someone to pick up on and their secret to escape!

I obviously work in a boreing profession. I don't think any of my colleagues have ever been outed as having an affair

My boyf want us to come out to the whole company in a few months at a works do (if we don't bump into anyone in the meantime!)

Ours was obvious from the start. When we started to think about the wedding |(we'd been together 3 months) then it got us into trouble. We had a bitch from hell fuckwit boss who hauled our arses into her office and said she had shared an office with two people planning a wedding once before and she wasn't going to again so one of us could transfer out (me) or we could call it off .

We both left and have been married 10 years. Cowbag.

I think people started to suspect when we got engaged :) (not that we ended up getting married in the end)

Actually I've had 2 'office romances' and I still work with my most recent ex-bf. Luckily it wasn't a bad ending to that relationship or it would have made things very difficult indeed.

"Fishing off the company pier" as I've heard it called...

At one place I worked there was a couple that gave themselves away when she felt ill one evening, and called him, and he went to her flat and found her collapsed on the floor. He called the ambulance and she just barely survived--it was a ruptured ovarian cyst and she was bleeding to death. Anyway, after that adventure their romance was hardly worth mentioning.

Somewhere I worked years ago had a cracker of a story. A guy was seeing the female receptionist. Both married to other people. As the receptionist, she did not have an email account of her own but a general one - Reception@???House. He sent her an email to say what a fantastic blow job she had given him the night before and very explicit details of what he wanted to do to her. Trouble is, he didn't send the email to
"Reception@???House", he sent it to [email protected]. That was the distribution list for everyone that worked in the building. He was seen frantically trying to recall the email without success and about 300 people got to read it. The receptionist, a contractor was replaced immediately and the guy, was provided with his P45 as the description in the email included the board room location of the blow job! You've never heard a feeling of silence as we all opened the email!

DH shouted it at a colleague who had made a comment about my looks. Heehee.

My colleague found a printout of an email conversation between two colleagues talking about the night before. The prints had come out of a printer that hadn't been turned on for a while. I guess he accidentally sent it to the wrong printer. No idea why he decided to print it out though. My colleague told me but noone else found out about it till about a year later.

well, we were a bit on and off, so I think no-one really knew what was going on, but there were a couple of incidents.
my dh wasn't feeling well during the night, but went to work as usual, I had the day off for something. He then rings from the hospital, they are checking him out for chest pains, so I race there, only to fly straight into our boss! I made some excuse about having lunch close by!
The same boss told me I would be stupid to have a relationship in the office( he married someone he worked with)
We had holidays together, long weekends away, no-one ever twigged, but maybe we weren't fooling anyone.
Oh and when we were buying our house together, the stupid estate agent faxed something to work. a colleague just put it on my desk, never said anything.
Actually I think they all probably knew!
We left shortly after.
It wasn't against the rules, it was just none of their business.