do you have such type of colleague ?

@ritzz07 (788)
India
January 29, 2012 2:17pm CST
hi friends i have very good relation with all my colleagues....but yesterday in my office something happened......my friend i were speaking with one of my female colleague and and my friends girlfriend saw us that we are speaking to her.......i dont know what happened to my friends girlfriend she came and started to fight with that female.....strange.....it was really strange for me....i was shocked why this female is behaving like paranoid ? then i told my friend to take her outside and resolve the issue.........when they came back after sometime my friend told me that his girlfriend dont want him to talk with that girl again and he promised her........?
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
29 Jan 12
That is one of the things to worry about when dating within the work place. You never know how the partner will react and it can really affect your future in a company. I can't say that I have never broken my own rule of not dating in the workplace but I can say that when I did, I regretted it.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Jan 12
hi jenintn you are so right and I saw that even in my own life but oddly I was not the one to react but my boss, the head nurse.I did not know if when my fiance and I got married but my boss was angry at me for taking away my husband as her potential mate. it seems she had staked him out for herself. but he had never dated her or even flirted with her. He was friendly as he was with all the worked with but I had never seen him show any real interest in her. but after I was married and finally got pregnant she sent me on the really hard to handle cases, and here I was almost nine months pregnant. I was on my knees on this huge woman's bed bathing her when her brother a staff doctor came in.He had a fit when he saw I was huge with child and took me to the head nurse and insisted she put me on paid maternity leave. so since he was chief of staff she obeyed him.but come the next monday my poor husband was handed a pink slip.It said our policy is not to employ two people who are married to each other.Pick up your final pay check. Oh I was furious but the law was the law. She was jealous of me, green'with it and took it out on my husband.She did this again later to a married couple and she had had the hots for the man. He was a really great orderly and we all liked working with him, He got fired and his wife a total ditzy dame was kept on. I liked her but she really was a strange person.I did not return to the hospital after our first was born which was good b ecause I got pregnant right away again and had two babies in 11 months.WE never did work together again in the same work place. too many problems arise and someone usually gets hurt too.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
29 Jan 12
There are certainly alot of scenarios to consider. I don't think we can control who we fall in love with but it being in the workplace sure does have a way of complicating things..especially when you have a boss that has the hots for your guy. That's one of the worst case scenarios! I'm glad that you both moved on and were happy together afterwards..the less bad people and bad things in our lives the better.
@ritzz07 (788)
• India
30 Jan 12
HI HATLEY & JENINTN i just read your story here and i am amazed this is something new to me and compare to your story this is nothing what i have narrated here.....hats off to you and to your husband.......you must be happiest couple of the world.......and thanks to jenintn only because of her i came to know this.......and this is really strange........
@savypat (20216)
• United States
29 Jan 12
Many employers do not allow personal relationships between employees for just this reason. It may seem unfair but with so much emotion involved it can turn the whole office into a battle ground.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
30 Jan 12
I couldn't find any reason why a sudden fight erupted between your colleagues but probably jealousy was the motive. Don't bother, let them settle what ever disputes they had.
@celticeagle (159318)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Jan 12
Jealousy is a very contemptable thing. It can cause all kinds of problems and cause otherwise intelligent women to act like children. this guys girlfriend obviously rules the roost. I pitty the guy~! He needs to speak up and take control of his own destiny.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
31 Jan 12
Sounds like your colleague's girlfriend is jealous. Jealousy doesn't show love. It shows possessiveness, and possessiveness is a desire to control.
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
15 Feb 12
Who knows , maybe like wakeupkitty said , your friend maybe flirted with that woman , taliking with her and smiled too much or maybe he talked to her in a way he wouldn't talk if she was a tough guy or his boss... Yet , I think the wife was too angry and had to let him do what he want and trust him. Telling him not to talk to that woman can maybe make him more carefull and do it sectretly. Maybe there can happen a thing that your friend will have to talk to that girl because of work issues and the wife can make a fight over this. If I knew my girl wouldn't allow me to talk to a woman I know , it could be a problem if we had to talk and my girl wouldn't allow that...I don't like the need to explain why I have to talk to that woman , that feels like not being trusted or supected , make me to get into a defensive mode , blaming her for other things in life...you know , like attacking before being attacked...
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Jan 12
hi ritzz07 oddly all my colleagues when I was working were women. but I think I can see what this was all about. Your friend's girlfriend was jealous because your friend had evidently been]friendly with this female colleague and probably just in the way coworkers are with each other. But his girlfriend took offense and told the female employee off I can imagine. What a mess. As a woman I can understand it as the best of women when their boyfriends or husbands get a bit chummy with another women even though its just coworkers we females do get a bit jealous. but this should not happen in the wo rk place at all.
30 Jan 12
Jealousy: the green-eyed monster. To be honest, if I had a girlfriend who told me I couldn't talk with another woman, I'd dump her. That's just insane and shows a distinct lack of trust: if she can't even trust me to TALK to someone I work with, what hope is there for any kind of relationship?
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
30 Jan 12
Where i work I don't have this type of colleague. This sounds like a jealous rage which should not being on at work! At any work place!
@Cutie18f (9551)
• Philippines
30 Jan 12
Are they in a relationship? Then the guy must be jealous. Does he have any reason to be jealous? If not, then he is indeed acting strange. Stay away from that person then and don't mess up with his girlfriend because you just don't know what is in his mind and what he is capable of doing.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
30 Jan 12
As I understand your friend was speaking to an other woman/co-worker and his gf is upset about that? As I understand you don't understand that? First of all: it will be hard if you are not able to talk with your co-workers at work. Secondly: I think his gf saw/noticed something you did not notice! Men seldom see it if it comes to flirting. Or they claim they did not see it.
@msh2207 (51)
30 Jan 12
hi ritzz sometimes we have to ignore such type of incidents,i think that is better,also i would like to suggest your friend to ignore this........because we can not change thinking of a girl...this not for all girls there are many girls who are open minded i think its better for your friend to find new girlfriend who broadminded......