I have been working at my office for over two years now, and I recently got promoted to a mid-level position. He is a senior. We work on different floors in different departments that rarely have anything to do with one another. We have always been in different positions so we never went together to the week ends organised every year for all the people across offices who hold the same position. It is fair to say that, before last Christmas, we had barely no interaction.
Then at the Christmas party, I noticed that he was staring at me quite a bit. Afterwards, we were supposed to go in the same direction with a taxi, except that he was going with some other colleagues to another party and I was going home. He tried to convince me to join but didn’t push when I told him I had a flight the morning after.
He arranged the cab, made sure we would be put in the same one and calmed down the very irritated driver who was scaring me and my other colleague, making sure he would see me closing my door before leaving. Then he started talking to me, and even though there were 3 more people in the car, it felt like we were alone. He complimented my language skills, he teased me gently for silly things like my favourite football team and the district I live in, he told me he loves my city of origin and then he tried to understand what keeps me living in his country (I’m a foreigner). I got the impression that he was trying to grasp if I have a boyfriend or not. He added me on LinkedIn the morning after.
Afterwards, when we were at events together or I just showed up in his area, I had the impression that he wasn’t even hiding the fact that he was staring at me.
This week I was on his floor, and I passed in front of his office. When I returned in that direction, he had just entered the office next door, but I saw him taking a couple of steps back just to smile very brightly at me and say hi. It’s stupid, but I had the feeling that we had a moment and that he was really happy to see me.
Two days prior we were entering the building together, but I was slightly overwhelmed at the idea of being in the elevator with him and others and took the stairs (for 10 floors). Stupid of me, but note that I’m just adjusting after a very toxic relationship and I am thus extremely cautious and clumsy.
Anyway I don’t know if he has a girlfriend as he is a very private person, but he’s surely not married. Anyway I think my crush is starting to show: people have noticed that I talk about him a lot, I like everything that involves him on Linkedin, I make a long tour of that floor (where we have our cafeteria, luckily)quite often... but it’s not like he is going out of his way to do anything.
I think for the sake of decency and professionalism I will have to put this thing to bed. Any recommendations/similar experiences? Thanks!
[TL;DR] I have a crush on one of the seniors that I don’t often work with after interacting with him in the Christmas period. I think he’s nice to me but I am not sure he’s interested. I think I will have to let it go for the sake of professionalism. Any thoughts? Tx!
Submitted February 23, 2020 at 03:20PM by Liquirizia https://ift.tt/2SSYnqt
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