Would you be able to work at the same company with your parent/child? If so, could you bear to watch people flirt and make passes at them?

I used to work with my first wife in different sections of a company. I rather enjoyed seeing customers trying to hit on her while I came into the room before she noticed me. It did a bit for my ego, plus I got to see her shoot them down.

omg if my mom worked where i worked id lik shoot myself

I would not have any problem with that. I recognize that my children have dimensions to their lives that are not part of their relationship to me. But I also do not work at a place where flirting and making passes are part of the culture, and I wouldn’t care to, with or without family members.

@Jeruba DUDE wow think about that again and ur spelling is like wowzers are you lik a proffeser or sumthin

@beckers Please read the guidelines before posting any more. It is painful to read your comments.

@jeruba: my mom works where I work ;)

@VzzBzz Omg is it bad?

@beckers: It is funny to watch my mother crush the spirits of men, yes.

If I worked where my guardian worked, I’d have to see the nice officers take her away. Again. After she’d swoop down on some poor woman, fists flying, for flirting with her telepathically. I believe this has already happened at least twice. And my guardian has always claimed to be straight. Nope, wouldn’t work where she does. Not for all the Fair Isle sweaters in Scotland. Every day would be an exercise in embarrassment.

@aprilsimnel: I’m afraid

@VzzBzz – She’s not at all well.

@VzzBzz hah lol that sounds funn!

I’d need to be on heavy medication to work in the same place as my mom. Heck, I’d need serious intervention if I lived in the same part of the country as my mom! She may be related to @aprilsimnel‘s guardian. She has a wolf spirit that follows her everywhere and tried to kill her once.

My dad wouldn’t be so bad to work with. I can’t imagine anyone hitting on him.

As for my kids, they are still way too young to hold jobs. Just the idea of someone hitting on them makes me want to smash something. Hopefully by the time they grow up I can learn to let go a little. Maybe.

Another reason to keep family and business as separate as church and state.

@ru2bz46: DUDE. Thank you.

Wouldn’t bother me, course, my mom does her own thing most of the time, and my dad is dead.

So, either I’m basically left to my own devices or I’m chillin’ with the Zombie crowd.

Yeah, okay. I want zombies.

@asmonet Yeah, I saw you got the other question, too ;-)

High five. :)

No, but not because of that reason

I wouldn’t want to work with my husband or parents, I’d be way too self conscious.
It’d be funny to see girls hit on my husband, I’ve seen it many times, when I’ve gone into his work. It just amuses me, makes me want him more.
I wouldn’t want to work with my parents, mainly because of their jobs..I’d hate it! haha

I had a job where I worked on the same floor as my mom, two totally different departments, though. What I got to see, which I never saw, was a totally different side of her. Not mom, I saw an independent woman. I saw this funny, lively woman – smart, tough, but fair and interesting. Not that I told my mom wasn’t smart, but I can say it was just different. Once a month, her girlfriends from work would go out together, after a few months, she invited me to join them. I didn’t go out with my mom that night, I went out with a friend. A hysterical, slightly wild, witty, smart, beautiful woman. I met another side her her that night. It was a great moment.

About a month later, my dad got a job offer and they moved. I stayed behind. It just wasn’t the same there. I didn’t see this woman that I admired walking through the hallways. Eventually, I found another job, then got offered a better job, out of state.

It was fun to see my mom at work, but I think, if we would have been in the same department, it would have been difficult. we’re very competitive!

@cak, on the job, did you call her “Mom” or, e.g., “Suzy”?

@Jeruba – What is so funny about the questions, for week, I didn’t know how to address her. I finally got to the point where, at work, I call her by her name. I thought it showed more respect. I managed to avoid addressing her by name, most of the time. She never dictated what I should call her, it was something I figured out, on my own.

I still call her by name, at times, in stores, when she’s taking too long! Not an issue of respect anymore, a sign that I hate shopping!

I’ve worked with my mom and two of my sisters at different companies. It’s strange, but I never thought anything about it. We got along great and even worked together very well because we knew each other so well. Work flowed smoothly when we were on shift together, and the bosses loved having us.
…and I always called my mom, Mom.

I’ve wondered about this. I don’t think I could work with my mom. There is a woman who works with me and her two sons work there too. We work in a restaurant and well, it can get pretty crass around there a lot of the times which I thoroughly enjoy and she’s a sweet woman, so sometimes I worry for her sanity! They seem to get along just fine at work and they eat together a lot, so it must work for them.

I have worked in the same company as my father (and sister) but there was never any flirting. My dad has been happily married for 40 years and my sister and me both have always had relationships outside the workplace. She’s also been married for the last 3 years now, and loves her husband very much.

I think that in 20 years or so, watching my daughter flirt will be weird anyway, wherever it happens. Having to see it at work wouldn’t make much of a difference.

No.tht would be awkward for both of you

YEAH… no problem…