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Is it a wise idea to accept someones invitation for a date when someone else stood you up the day before?

Asked by poisonedantidote (21675points) July 10th, 2011

You are trying to get a girl to go out with you, but she is hard work, and there is a bit of drama for a few days.

During these few days, you are told in no undertain terms by two other people, that they would go out on a date with you an more. However, so to be proper you turn them both down in a polite and adult manner.

Lets assume you are no longer trying to get the original girl to go out on a date with you, and are now free.

At what point, after a recent fail, should you accept one of the other peoples offers to go out on a date?

When can it be said you are going out with someone on a date, and not just on some lame rebound thing?

BQ’s

- What do you think about dating peple you work with? what if they work in a different section to you?

- What do you think about dating someone you have only just met a week ago?

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Dutchess_III's avatar

Dating co workers is a baaaaad idea.
I don’t know about the rest.

zenvelo's avatar

Grab the new invite and forget the girl that’s all the work. If she asks why, tell her she didn’t seem interested, as evidenced by how much seemed to get in the way of setting a date. People need to learn that playing games is rude.

Dating co-workers can be very tricky. It depends on how big the organization is, any company policies, and also whether the two of you are mature enough to keep any drama out of the work place. If you do take someone from work out, once you start to go beyond a simple date, in other words, before sex, you need to actually talk about the work aspect of your relationship.

Dating someone you only met a week ago is fine. Asking someone out you met fifteen minutes ago is fine. After all, it’s how you get to know her.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

From what I have read,in your case,I wouldn’t call it a rebound.You are free to date anyone you want.
Dating people you work with is not always the best idea if it turns out you don’t like them and have to see their face every single day!
If they work in a different section,that might be easier if things don’t work out.
As for someone you have known a week? You could just go out for coffee or drinks after work.It doesn’t have to be a big production.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

You can date anytime, there is no “relationship” you’re rebounding from.

Dating co workers is hit and miss, more to do with your work environment than anything. Some jobs are very against this and others couldn’t care less. Know where you stand with yours. Casual dating? I wouldn’t but if you begin to feel someone you work with is The One then you might chance it.

I say this after dating several co workers over the years. In more than one instance I was encouraged by my bosses and staff but at another job, we kept the relationship under wraps for over a year. I’m getting married to my ex co worker but if I’d been interested in just passing time then I wouldn’t have touched him, the risk of drama is very very high.

poisonedantidote's avatar

@Neizvestnaya There is no relationship to rebound from no.

However, I want to be sure I’m giving someone a fair shot, not just taking them out to fuck them because I want to patch up my bruised ego or some other childish shit.

SpatzieLover's avatar

Give yourself a few days to think about all of this and get your head straight..Then, Go For It with another girl. One that doesn’t play head games and has shown real interest in you.

dabbler's avatar

Five minutes is long enough then call someone who wants your company.

Kardamom's avatar

Although technically you could say that you are re-bounding, I don’t really think that you are. You are just at the point where you are realizing that there are more fish in the sea. It would be totally different if you had been actively dating the first girl for awhile and then you either broke up or got dumped.

Right now, there are some other young ladies that sound interested in you. Be careful of the “and more” suggestions that they were offering to you. Go ahead and go on some dates, but get to know people for a good while before you get physically intimate (a little kissing and hugging are fine of course) with them.

I think it’s probably OK, unless your company has a policy prohibiting dating co-workers, to date a woman in another dept. But just know that if you do end up becoming intimate and you eventually break up or there is some other type of problem that happens outside of work, you will almost be guaranteed to suffer some problems at work. Be really, really careful about that. I’ve seen some people that dated at work, broke up and one of them was obsessed by the other one and then one of them ended up getting called out for sexual harrassment. So just be really careful how you proceed in dating a co-worker, and if you need to break up with them, be extremely careful and respectful of how you do it, and then treat them with the utmost respect at work (before, during and after a breakup).

But as far as woman number one goes, don’t give her another thought. Date whomever else you like (but don’t flaunt it in the face of the first woman as payback, either). Just find some nice people to date that are up front about their feelings for you, and their expectations for what kind of relationship they are looking for with you.

chyna's avatar

I do hope you are not going out with someone to just “fuck” (your words). Not a good idea. As you said in your last post, you have been drinking, so I’m hoping this statement is from drunk talk.

poisonedantidote's avatar

@chyna Actually. I feel fairly sober now. A fair bit of time has passed. The statement was a sober statement, but if you look twice, you will see thats NOT what I’m trying to do, in fact it’s the very thing I’m tryng to avoid.

chyna's avatar

@poisonedantidote Ah, I read too quickly. Forgive me?

Schroedes13's avatar

Just ask away son! You’re not committed to anyone at this point, so who cares!?!?!

Also, unless you feel a crazy, once in a lifetime attraction, don’t date people you work with.

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