Laconia.

Old school or no school.

Seriously, anyone who gets that bent out of shape about it is revealing their ignorance.

Why bother working then?

BRTSH AF better have been for something that really is British as fuck

What percentage of office romances do you figure end up there?

My office isn’t unpleasant NOW.  But it was when my dating coworkers were in the midst of breaking up.  Would have stayed that way if one of them hadn’t gotten fired.

Well, you can ask them “is it worth losing one or both of your jobs?”  Because that’s what it may come to.

If they aren’t in the same chain of command, if they’re in different branches of the hierarchy, and the organization is large, and they’re both far enough down that the promoted party isn’t rubbing elbows with the lower party’s boss...

Then sure, it’s probably okay.

I used to hang around with a female coworker. Like, in her barracks room. Never made a move. And in words couched in deniability, she expressed what appeared to be irritation that I never made a move. I kind of regret never doing so.

But this person was, to some minor degree, my subordinate (I was her trainer and had…

Even if that imbalance isn’t actually exploited, it is impossible for the superior to know what the subordinate really thinks about the situation (I mean maybe they SAY everything’s okay, but is it?), and it’s impossible for anyone other than the people involved to even be that sure that there was no coercion.

Millennium Actress > Paprika

Brake check.

http://bigcitydriver.com/2015/01/anti-traffic-an-experiment-to-fight-traffic-jams/

At what rate?

Thomas Piketty became a rock star by writing a very dry book about it.

Quote one person who was doing that.

Chinese steel.  Calling it.  

1987 wants your hair back, lady in the background.  

I hooked up my Ford Escort ZX2, and the bass goes boom.