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Office Mate: Your Employee Handbook for Romance on the Job

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Here's what I love about this book 1. It's a great read. Yes, it has a storyline, you can follow it, it has useful sidebars! 2. It's smart. The ideas are practical and accessible 3. They use (gasp!) studies and books to make their points! This part impresses me as I've read a few too many books based on the author's opinion or maybe a couple friends of the author. 3. They made me laugh and it felt like a conversation with a witty smart friend. 5. It's not just for 20 somethings. As someone who sure isn't fresh out of college, they talked to me and make their ideas possible and doable. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and will now use it as a reference because who knows maybe there's a work buddy and potential romatic partner out there for me!

I love this book! It's so well written: funny, thorough, smart. These two have done their research and write from experience. It's about time a book like this has been written--hard to believe it's the first one out there. Thanks to the authors for showing that office romance can be done, and done well.

Common ground is a necessary starting point for any relationship. So, why go to a bar to meet a potential mate? Instead, search for love in a more familiar place: your office. An office works like a community where people know each other well. Individuals also act and look most like themselves in the office. Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen, who met their spouses at work, express their enthusiasm for finding love at the office. They guide hard-working singles through the low-lit halls of the office to find love among the cubicles and conference rooms. getAbstract recommends their warm and practical approach, and praises the care they've taken with sexual harassment issues.

As one of the women quoted in the book puts it: "If I didn't date people I worked with, I would never have had a date." Plenty of people DO find true love at work, and it doesn't have to be a disaster even when things don't work out. "Office Mate" provides practical advice and real research to help guide people through these shoals, and it's a fun read to boot.

This book is worth diddly squat! After seeing one of the authors of the book on a morning news show, I bought the book with the hopes of finally getting some sound advice about how to ask that cute girl at work out on a date. Afterall I spend most of my day in my IT room and my workplace is my community. The advice seemed good and after hungrily reading the information contained herein I worked up enough guts to ask this hottie out, being careful to keep in mind all the DO's and DONT'S outlined in the book. Being an IT guy, i never dress up for work, but on that day I wore my best suit and tie to work, and stuffed plenty of toilet paper in my pockets to dapple any sweat accumulating in my forehead from nervousness (I sweat A LOT when I am nervous). Unfortunately I had soiled my suit with a jelly donut on the way to work, so I had to wear my suit jacket inside out. You couldn't really tell once I blackened out the tags with a sharpie. Anyway, to make a long story short, after lunch I pretended to have a headache and went by cutie's desk where the office Advil packets are kept. She asked if she could get me some water because I was sweating profusely and didn't look well. I thanked her but as she stood I grabbed her arm and asked her out. SHe of course said no and I ran back to my computer room. The next morning I was called into the boss' office where he sat me down and told me that if I ever hit on his girlfriend again I would be sued for sexual harassment and that I was fired. So thanks a lot! Not only did I lose my job, but how am I going to explain this to my wife? I don't understand what the authors' credentials are here, but they seem to be doling advice in this apparent lighthearted manner, but what makes them experts? How many office romances have THEY had? What makes anyone an expert on this? Don't waste your time and money on this book - you'll be sorry, or worse!