Happy News UpdateI thought some of you might want to hear a good news post for once. So...I have been at my new job at a large financial institution for three months, and I love it!! My manager and I get along great, and she' s always thanking me for what I do and saying what a good job I do. I have created a very strong network of people in my office and through the country, and have a folder full of emails of people who have complimented my work. So I' m doing something right. I had my three month review and it went very well, and I have been assigned more complex projects. What' s even nicer is I can work remotely whenever I wish. I am very blessed! I have worked hard to be here and feel very good about it. On a second note, I am getting married next year! My fiance popped the question on Valentine' s Day weekend. So many things to plan and do. We' re on a small budget and paying for this mostly ourselves, so it' s a challenge, but we think we' ve found a few places that might work. But there' s so many things that crop up that you never think about! So, to make this more on topic and fun: let' s take a survey. Who met their fiance/wife/husband at work? Did it work out? How else did people meet their spouses? Let' s have a contest for the most unique meeting/proposal story! As for me, we met online and then progressed to phone calls and then a meeting in a bookstore. We' ve been inseparable ever since. I hope everyone else can find something to be grateful or hopeful for in their life right now. I had a bad year last year and am so thankful to have turned things around. May everyone be eventually blessed with some form of good news that they are looking for this year. I am rooting for all of you. I' m so glad to hear that things are working out so well for you! Congratulations on the success of your new job and Congratulations on your engagement. I never dated anyone I met at work. However... -- "Let' s have a contest for the most unique meeting/proposal story!" -- This is kinda off-topic for these forums, but okay, I' ll bite. I met my husband at a Science Fiction convention. It was late Friday night and I was feeling flirtateous. I walked through the smoking room toward the balcony doors when I saw a man with a pony tail sitting with his back to me. I tugged on his pony tail, whispered in his right ear, "Nice tail," and then walked away to the left, out onto the balcony area, and essentially disappeared into the crowd. From what I understand, he spent the rest of the night trying to find out who I was. I bumped into him the next morning, but didn' t recognize him (I hadn' t looked at the face of the man whose pony tail I had pulled the night before). We spent a couple hours talking and drinking coffee with a large groups of mutual friends and then many hours just the two of us talking. It wasn' t until two weeks later when he called me for a date that I realized he was the pony tail guy..... I' d say our meeting was unique. My hubby and I met on line. I was in SF, he was in Sydney. We talked on line from August until November and then since I had a business meeting in Japan, I decided to keep going and meet up with him. We got engaged the next day, married 5 months later and will be celebrating our 8th anniversity in 2 weeks. You really want to have fun? Go back to work after a 2 week business trip overseas that you tagged 1 week of vacation to and tell your boss that you' re getting married and moving to Australia in a few months! There's plenty of people who have met on the job -- and as someone who has been involved with people on the job and watched friends who hooked up on the job, I can say that one walks a very fine line getting involved and getting social on the job. If you feel you must get involved with someone on the job, there's all this stuff to contend with, and we all know about the almighty grapevine. And God forbid if it doesn't work out or one of you can't keep your thoughts to yourself, your news is all out for everyone to watch, they can sit back and just watch the drama unfold -- one of my best friends ruined her professional career on the job and had to change jobs because of a breakup with a co-worker that became public when one of them got drunk at the office Christmas party. You get the drift. Some people get off (pun intended) on the danger of getting caught, of having quickies on the boss' desk or in the bathroom stall. To each his or her own. I don't view the office as a dating game. There are just way too many landmines to deal with and most people simply aren't worth destroying your career over. You got lucky. Most don't. If you read my original message, I didn' t meet my intended at work. We met online. I just thought of making this thread a little more on topic by asking if people met their spouses that way and if if worked. Congrats on the job thus far working so well for you!! Double congrats on the engagement. Small weddings and small budgets can sometimes be a blessing believe me. Less stress and ultimately more fun! To answer your survey questions - Met my husband in the Bahamas while on vacation with a friend of mine. Actually he checked us in and then we ran into him the next day at the Music Festival. There really is a much longer story but we dated long distance for about a year before he proposed. Were engaged about 6 months and then eventually eloped to Las Vegas. We are going on 8 years of marriage now. Our joke is that I married a Bahamian so that I would have a great place to retire to. | |
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