Think You Sound Suave Talking To Your Office Crush? Spoiler: You Don’t

Fast Company

Office interactions are weird. Like sure, you work for the same company and do I guess maybe the same things, but like everyone’s a different age and are you coworkers or friends and like what do you have to say to each other aside from things about lunch and the weather and quittin’ time?

But you’ve figured out how to make it through the day without embarrassing yourself terribly. That’s why you still have a job.

Much, much harder is when you are trying to seduce a coworker. They’re cute, you like them, but there are all sorts of legal and ethical boundaries. You have to seem cool and not too eager but also interesting and here’s the rub: you’re probably falling at it.

See all the myriad ways in this new video from Fast Company.