Casual hook up with coworker

Coworker image via ShutterStock. These boyish attempts are what will backfire and land you in the corporate doghouse. Instead, be direct and professional. As always, confidence wins with women.

Over the summer I met up with one of my fellow students for what I thought would be a normal catch-up lunch — complaining about customers, groaning about our respective bosses , and griping about how we hated being broke as a result of our unpaid internships. However, once I was settled at my table and checking my watch — where was she? Her dress was wrinkled, her hair was slightly mussed, and her big blue eyes were twinkling. She swayed her way through the tables, and sat down across from me with an impish smile. Linda not her real name , who had been spending the summer interning at a prominent local record label , leaned across the table, beckoning me closer. She raised a finger to her lips, and grinned.

I made out with a coworker at an office bash oops , but I don't want to date him. How can we move on? It's awkward! Try this two-pronged strategy:

When I polled my friends on Facebook and Twitter for advice on dating a coworker, the overwhelming majority of the responses were simply, "Don't. Dating a coworker or boss or colleague can lead to unbearable awkwardness, a tarnished professional reputation, and even job-loss. Like that's going to stop anybody from doing it. For as long as there have been workplaces, there have been people surreptitiously hooking up at them.