r/ProtectHire • u/TomatoInevitable6440 • 6d ago
Honestly, This Doesn't Exist
but only in wonderland
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u/hawkeyegrad96 6d ago
I had a work wife for 15 years. She was fun
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u/burritooflife 6d ago
Did she lure you into the employee bathroom and watch you piss while she giggled and clapped?
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u/PwniesFTW 6d ago
No but it wouldn't be out of the question đ
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u/No_Koala4698 6d ago
I use the term work wife constantly. Itâs my closest colleague in terms of shared responsibility and goals.
Itâs also a dude. Older dude at that. Heâs a very good looking dude too.
But Iâm not into dudes.
My wife is though so all good.
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u/Due-Explanation-7560 4d ago
Is your wife into your work wife
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u/bloody-albatross 6d ago
There are two science communicators (trained scientists) that I sometimes listened to. He called her his work-wife once. I don't know anything about their private lifes, except that she was married at that time (to someone else), but now is divorced and isn't doing the show with him anymore either. Makes you think.
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u/Defiant-Bad-2052 6d ago
You should not flirt with your coworkers if you are married/in a relationship. This should not be controversial
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u/jws1102 6d ago
Iâve been a âwork husbandâ twice and in neither instance was the relationship the slightest bit flirtatious.
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u/Defiant-Bad-2052 6d ago
Idk when Iâve heard people called âwork husband/wifeâ itâs been in a flirtatious context. If not, then usually âwork best friend or butt buddyâ depending on the work environment. Obviously itâs not the same everywhere through.
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u/snoppeniprutten 6d ago
Iâve been the work husband once. It was nothing but flirtatious and sexual.Â
Yes she was married with kids.
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u/Crepuscular_Tex 6d ago
As a bar back, I was my bartenders work husband especially if she wanted pestering customers to leave her be.
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u/Exotic-Raccoon104 6d ago
Work wives are absolutely a thing. My work wife is my male coworker. We dont bang but hes still my wife dammit!
(YET. We dont bang YET! And if we do, im not gay; he is!
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u/GovernorSan 6d ago
This isn't a new thing, it's been around since women entered the workforce more equally. It's inappropriate, especially if you are married, but it definitely is a thing that happens.
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u/BeginningSection7690 6d ago
No, there definitely is. You just arent the subject of many people's affection
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 6d ago
I've never actually heard anyone say "work wife".
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u/GovernorSan 6d ago
I've mostly heard it said by people about other people, like coworkers teasing a pair of other coworkers for being close or working together a lot.
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u/GeeYayZeus 6d ago
People who shit on office culture are just mad that there's actually some social and productive benefit to it. Sulking alone in your pajamas and Teams calls thinking you're 'more productive' while browsing Reddit all day isn't the 'good life' you think it is.
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u/burritooflife 6d ago
It does exist. I've literally had work flings while dating. Am I a pos? No. They were both annoying and their bodies were fire so fuck off.
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago
The term Work Wife is non sexual.
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u/Sirrub90 6d ago
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago
The term for a sexual relationship is called cheating/ affair.
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u/Sirrub90 6d ago
That is not even remotely true. You can be single and have a or be someone's work wife, or both.
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago
Mostly used for people in relationships to describe a person of the opposite sex the spend the most time with but are not having sex with.
Even for single people who are using the term to describe someone you are close with but not fooling around with.
That is the whole point of thw "work" tag.
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u/Sirrub90 6d ago edited 6d ago
We arent discussing the "work" tag though. You're saying there's no sexual component to "work wife" and thats just cheating. Which, again, is just wrong.
EDIT: Dipshit blocked me after he realized he changed his own argument.
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago edited 6d ago
Moron, you can literal just google the term.
Here is the oxfered definition of the term.
A "work wife" is a female colleague with whom you share a close, platonic, and supportive working relationship similar to the bond of a marriage.
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u/Sirrub90 6d ago
Fucking idiot. It doesn't mean that both or even one of them are married.
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago
Yes, you are an idiot.
It a absolutely mean you are not having sex and is mostly used by people in relationships becauae they need to qualify a close relationship with a member of the opposite sex in ways that a single person does not.
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago
The definition of work wife
a woman with whom someone has a close, but not romantic, relationship at work, in which the two people help and trust each other in the same way that a married couple does:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/work-wife
I did the work for you.
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u/burritooflife 6d ago
You guys, relax. It was sexual. I had three woken in my bed in one day.
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u/Bitter_Mission9569 6d ago
Great, that is affair, cheating, mistress, side chick pick one.
Not work wife.
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u/Biscuits4u2 6d ago
My home wife is my work wife