Corporate and Dating ?

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Corporate and Dating ?- Grapevine

Life as a corporate enthusiast means my love life is as quiet as a Monday morning meeting! 😄 Seeking someone who can appreciate my knack for numbers and office banter. Let's share laughs over coffee and see where it takes us! ☕️💼 #CorporateLife #SeekingConnection

How can I have a love life being a corporate majdoor? 🥲

Consultant

do coworkers date each other?

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I am penning this post because so far working in corporate I have realised that somehow we all are going through the same shit. Not everyone needs an adventure in life and start a business. Some of us like our stability. But with that stabilty comes loneliness. 
Everyone in corporate ( talking about bachelors) is looking for meaningful relationship with good sex. Approaching the other person in office is difficult. Half of us don’t believe in marraige but will get married to someone else’s love one day. 
I dont know what is the solution to this. More importantly I dont even know the problem. But something is missing. 
I see everyone in the morning wearing badges sipping coffee trying to gather energy just enough to survive the day. 
There is no gaurantee of job, life and happiness. 
Somehow we all have become incapable of living. We are just surving. 
These are mixed thoughts just like my morning mails.

What am I missing?

Dating At Workplace

What's the dating policy at your company? Our stupid HR said that dating is not allowed..and you can be terminated if you date your colleague? I'm going out with this chick in design.while it's not official but we know where it's heading. Should I disclose to HR?

Dating policy

Analyst

0. Try to have a call/video call before the first date. Always take their phone number/insta id before agreeing to meet, plenty of ghosters and shady folks these days.

1. Always try to meet outside for the first date. Don't go for drives. Those kinda dates almost never end up going well in the long run. Ask to meet halfway, don't go out of your way just to meet someone.

2. Don't meet someone with the expectation to start dating or getting married right away. Get to know them as friends first. Everything else later. 

3. Date for 2-3 months at least before committing to be exclusive, don't rush into things and keep your options open. 

4. Do not go for dates when you're feeling down or depressed. Meeting a stranger most likely won't help, it'll only distract temporarily.

5. Draw up a list of things you want and don't want in a partner. Should have at least 5-6 points on both sides. Pointless to date without knowing that much, but the list will also change with time. 

6. Keep an open mind, try to be empathetic, and have fun. Don't compromise just to please the other. Learn to take a stand and draw boundaries from the start.

7. Use protection always, no matter what. And also have some self defense prepared just in case (for all genders).

Having met hundreds of people through dating apps in the last decade, these are a few rules I formed for myself over time. Hope they help :)

Dating rules 101

Generalist

[2AM thoughts] You cannot fix dating life and career at the same time

Can we organise a party wherein all big 4 employees can come and meet?
Won’t it be great?

Maybe we can meet someone??

Dating in Big 4

Internal Audit

In the Blr since a month, in the Marathalli area.

Not any friends nearby.
First time out of home town.

Not any friends in the company as well, mostly I sit alone just casual hi hellos. Don't drink or party hence just stuck in PG.

I want to network with people and find interesting startups.
Can even start doing something on the side.

Let's connect if you are around ?
What other ways you guys connect to people / make friends after getting into corporate !!

What do you do on weekends ?

Software Engineer

Most of us on Grapevine, working in corporate sector might make decent chunk of money if we keep grinding for a decade or two but very few of us would have the social capital (or as they say “networking” in our corporate jargon).
Increasingly realising that the society respects the business owners or govt officers more than any senior leader in an IT firm. There is no social recognition for corporate folks. It might not be relevant for young folks as they still have some residual social recognition of the family for now, but what would happen after a decade or two. Most of the corporate “friends” are no longer in touch except for very rare ones. How does one build a social circle after 10-20 yrs in corporate? Would like to hear from folks above 40 yrs if they’ve had similar thoughts and how are they managing?
Also, What are some ways one can start building social circle overtime while doing a corporate job?

PS: I am referring social capital as having a certain level of stature in society alongwith deep connections with some people living around you who can help you in need or can expect something from you. This is different from LinkedIn networking where primary expectation is referrals.

Service Class has no social capital

My father is an officer in a PSU. Not sure what "respect" you are talking about because from what I've seen, PSU workers have a social capital only in their colony/settlement. Apart from that it doesn't really matter for outsiders.  
 Business owners are respected only if he/she is really really successful. Otherwise how often we see someone respecting a normal shop owner?? 
  
 To build your own social capital, participate in tech talks/workshops. Spend time mentoring folks. Participate in society functions/apartments as others have mentioned.

Software Developer

Product Manager

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I'm a 26-30 F at IIM Calcutta, and it seems like a lot of my classmates are already in relationships. It's a cliché that you might find your partner in B-school, but seeing others dating makes me anxious. In my first year, I was all about academics, which turned out to be tougher than I thought.

Now, I'm gearing up for placements, which should be my main focus (luckily, I have some interviews lined up!). But I can't shake the feeling that time is slipping away, and I get FOMO watching friends having fun and meeting new people.

I know it's a privilege to be in an MBA program, especially at IIM Calcutta, but there's this nagging feeling that I'm missing out on the social side. Plus, I wonder if it's worth dating when people might move away for jobs after graduation.

Do people use dating apps while in the MBA program here? I tried apps like Hinge and Bumble but didn't see many fellow students.

With all this, how do people date post-MBA in big cities? I'm not into dating apps or the bar scene. How do you meet new people?

Dating in b-school: feeling overwhelmed :(

Your objective should be to find and make friends. Dating will happen when the time is right. Until then, build your circle and relationships with friends, classmates, even old school and college friends.  
  
 Become an extrovert - https://share.gvine.app/tGsDuNV8YiPvfsGe7

I know this is not what majority of people like to listen, but for people coming from other cities with no friends and poor social skills, working remote or hybrid starts taking a toll on your mental health. 

The isolation it brings is so overwhelming. You feel trapped and frustrated, when there's no one to talk to.

Sometimes, I feel the quality of life of our kind of lower than street vendors at least they have people they can talk to. I just hate the way we are wired to be social animals yet find it overly difficult to connect with people.

Unpopular Opinion: I prefer Work from Office

If you are early stage of your career if you don't have responsibility at home you should come to office it's a healthy approach but for people like me who has already spend more than a decade in office life and has a small child at home working for home is like a saviour for me and my wife

Senior Engineer

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Corporate life 🤡

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I graduated in May 2023 and joined a US-based remote startup as an SDE in September 2023. They don't have a physical office in India, so they hired me via Deel (https://www.deel.com/) as an independent contractor.

In the future, if I plan to make a switch, will I face any problems as all the documents state that I'm a contractor and not a full-time employee?

The full-time employees of the company also work remotely, so the experience I get is pretty much the same.

To add some more context, I participated in Google Summer of Code 2023 and received the offer to work full-time later. So it is an open source organization, and all the pull requests I make are publicly available on my GitHub profile, but I highly doubt that the HR team will consider that.

I really love working here, but if it'll create some difficulty in the future, then I might have to reconsider.

Help and suggestions would be really helpful.

Remote job right after college

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I am a student, and many people have suggested that a corporate job is a great career option. Can anyone explain what exactly a corporate job means? What does one need to do in a corporate job? Please explain in a very simple language because I do not get the professional lingo.

What is a corporate job?

My 1st job starts 15 days from now and I am entirely free
If you had so much time what will you do with it.
Can be productive and leisure activities both 

PS I bought a playstation and played it 16 hours straight and now I am bored of it too

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