You've Got to Be Kidding!: How to Keep Your Job Without Losing Your Integrity

Employee Cautions

Potential problems abound with workplace wooing:

• Your reputation, credibility, and productivity may suffer, which will affect your advancement potential and job security.
• Your relationship may trigger resentment, envy, and even sabotage from coworkers.
• You could be accused of creating or contributing to a hostile workplace environment.
• If your workplace romance ends, you may face unresolved feelings—including hostility, vindictiveness, or even sexual harassment charges—when working together, even long after the affair is over. Your former lover may also hurt the kind of work assignments, raises, or advancement opportunities you receive.

Thus, conventional wisdom would advise that the best course of action to follow when it comes to a workplace romance is simply to not have one.