4/10 Is It Ever Okay To Date Your Boss Part 1

Listen to Joanna and Sean talk to listeners about if it is ever okay to date your boss. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dating these days can be tough, but you never know
where love will start brewing. Good morning, It's Joanna and
Sean right here on Sunny when I was six point five,
and sometimes that place is the workplace. So we want
to take some calls this morning. Is it ever okay
to date your boss? Seven O two seven nine six
one oh six five. And I'm bringing this up because

(00:21):
I'm just a little bit ago. Sean. You know, you
and I were agreeing we've been out of the dating
pool for a while. We don't know how tough it
is out there.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, all I've heard is horror story.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But all we're hearing is that it is tough. Yeah,
so I do so definitely don't want to judge. But
I had a girlfriend recently. She's in the real estate world, gotcha,
And you know she meets people all the time, and
I always said to her, like, you're probably going to
find love within your career. Now. When I said that,
I didn't mean her boss maybe showing a house tour,
so you never know right through, just like, yeah, connections, right,

(00:49):
that's all the real estate world is about. But recently
she confided me and told me that her boss, you know,
was interested and asked her out on a date and
not a work thing. Yeah, asked her if she would
go out to dinner with him, and she agreed. She said,
you know, listen, Joe, he's a good looking guy, he's nice,

(01:10):
He's always been respectful to me. I've never seen any
like weird behavior in the workplace.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Major red flags.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah. Yeah, And so she agreed to it. And I
think maybe it's the protectful nature in me. I don't
want to see my friends get hurt in the long run.
But initially, I will say this, My first reaction was
I didn't think it was a great idea to date
your boss.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So that's what I told her. I'm on the side
of do it. I mean, go for it, you know,
Like I met my wife at work. Now, granted we
were not and we didn't have like that power dynamic.
I was her boss or she was mine. So I
think it's natural for so many people to find love
in the workplace. It happens to so many people out there. Yeah,
and look, there's plenty of other like real estate, places

(01:50):
to work events. If it doesn't work out.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
That's all I kept thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'm like, well, what if it didn't work out or
what if something happened, like what if he didn't send
her leads? Or like, I don't know, I just feel
like there's a lot of Telly possibilities maybe in that world.
I don't know. Maybe I'm just skeptical about it. But
and again, she's a good friend of mine, so I'm
protectful of her.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's my initial reaction. I love to hear your side
of it, and I want to hear what other people
think this morning too.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
All right, Well, that good thing is we have Linda
on the line right now, so we'll start with you. Linda,
what do you think is it? Is it ever okay
to date your boss?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, it is never okay to date your boss. You
are opening up yourself into a big can of worms.
That's a complicated mess. Yeah, you don't. It is not okay.
That is crossing a line, crossing boundaries, HR nightmare. It's
not okay. Everyone should stay away from that.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, the HR stuff in itself, right, I don't know.
For some reason, I just feel like, stay away from
the boss, Like that's kind of gross. And I don't know,
maybe I'm old.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, are you so you think the boss is just gross?
That is that is the the conensus over on the
other side of the equation here, whereas I think just
just date anybody. Well, all right, well, thank you very
much for the call. All right, good way as it starts.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I mean, listen, I think a lot of people are
going to have different opinions on this, So let's take
more calls. I see we already have some people waiting
on hold, but give us a call if you also
want to chime in. Seven oh two, seven nine, six,
one oh sixty five. Will take more calls coming up
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