Employee develops crush on boss, gets fired for not acting on it: 'I just wanted to do the right thing'

Does romance ever have a place in the office?The workplace has started many a love story, but that doesn't mean that all of them are good ones. When it comes to our professional life, developing relationships that are anything other than platonic and focused on the job comes with a lot of risks. If a relationship ends up not working out, then perhaps a career trajectory won't, either. This is not to say that it is always a bad idea to date somebody who you have met through work, but it is definitely something to be approached with caution. We all know that relationships outside of the workplace can be explosive when they do not go well, and mixing in office politics can only make that worse.From this perspective, getting romantic with a coworker is probably best avoided. If things go well, it could be the start of something much more enduring than a career, but if they don't, there are all kinds of problems that could happen. Blending these two areas of life together requires a lot of care that, quite often, those who pursue relationships through work are not interested in exercising.