We asked Skimm’rs to share their most dramatic workplace relationship stories in honor of Netflix’s new romantic thriller “Fair Play” — and wow, did they deliver. 

SPECIAL DELIVERY 📦

"After our company holiday party, I slept with the mailroom guy. When we got back to the office the next week I had an email letting me know I had a package. I responded saying I wasn’t expecting anything, and got an email back basically asking if I was 'stupid,' and reiterating that I had a 'package.'

I spent the next year avoiding the mailroom at all costs, but couldn’t avoid him entirely since I sat by the elevator. I saw him every time he came up with a delivery."

-Sales, Media Company

FIANCÉ TURNED BIGGEST COMPETITION 💍

Netflix’s new movie “Fair Play” follows a couple who work together as an unexpected promotion puts more than their relationship in jeopardy. 

PROBLEMATIC PROMOTION 🤦

"I had a senior role in an early-stage startup. I befriended a peer on a different team and that friendship eventually morphed into dating. I fell super fast, and he seemed to as well. We even went on weekend trips and met each other's friends. We hid it at work and that made it all the more exciting.

About six weeks into our relationship, he was promoted and our new different statuses started causing tension. He became distant and ended things a few weeks later. Then, he became my boss. Big mistake. I found myself fluctuating between trying to avoid him and trying to get his attention. I got less and less happy until I eventually quit."

-Leadership, Food and Agriculture

COWORKER WITH BENEFITS 🤷

"I slept with a coworker once and then immediately got put on a long-term project with him. It was really awkward. He had anger issues and was terrible to the team but was nice to me because of, ya know, the sex."

-Strategy, Ad Agency 

OFFICE TEN 🏆

"I worked at a company with only about three men in the office, so truly any man there seemed like a 10. We were on different teams and, like all good office romances, we started as friends. Long story short, the 'innocent' office flirtation was catching on and senior staff started asking me if we were dating, and essentially the whole office knew. I was mortified but I was young and didn't know any better.

He ended up having a secret girlfriend the whole time — who he’s now married to — and while I felt rejected and embarrassed, he ended up getting fired and I was promoted a week later."

-Marketing, Media Company

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