How to manage workplace romances

1. Viewpoint

"An office romance doesn’t just happen and it doesn’t have to end destructively. In fact, it doesn’t have to end at all, if both partners understand the courtship patterns they’re following and make conscious choices about their behaviour."

2. Smile & ponder

More than forty years ago, this letter, and its response, appeared in a Dear Abby column…

Dear Abby: We work in a large office. Our office manager, I’ll call him Marvin, is a middle-aged family man. The boss’s secretary, I’ll call her Sissy, is a shapely young divorcee. Since Sissy came to work here, she and Marvin have been spending a lot of time together in the file room with the door locked. What they do in there is their own business, but we’re tired of covering up for them when the boss comes looking for Sissy. What do you suggest? - The Office Gang

Dear Gang: Next time the boss comes looking for Sissy, tell him to look in the file room under ‘Marvin’.

3. Don't forget

If you’re lovestruck…