I have been at my office for about fiver years. A woman started about a year ago, roughly the same age as me (45is to about 50 ish). We had a few conversations over that time period, but out old office space wasn't too conducive to much more than that.
At the beginning of this year, our office has moved, and she sits at a desk that is conducive to swiveling around and chatting.
We are realtors, so....there is a lot of chatting. I have discovered we know many of the same people (we live near each other), our kids are in roughly the same age bracket, we are into similar music, and we both find our business challenging. In other words, there is LOTS to talk about. I have also, with more experience in the biz, mentored her quite a bit of the past couple of months, in an informal way. Given her guidance on a number of client issues, etc. We are also FB "friends".
Over the past two weeks, this has spilled over into "off hours" via text message. I didn't see this as unusual, as it's not uncommon to come home at 9PM after finishing with a client, so her texting me saying "they didn't like anything and we'll be looking at more houses tomorrow" seemed perfectly fine, as well as responding to it and "chatting" for a few minutes.
Well, things took a different turn over the past 36 hours. At 12:30AM Sat, she texted asking if I was up, as she couldn't sleep and had a charity 5K to do in the AM. I was asleep, BTW, so didn't see it. I did respond in the AM though, saying "yeah, I was asleep" and left it at that.
Fast forward o 8PM last night, where she sent something to me that made no sense, and said "sorry, wrong thread". Then, an hour and a half later, she sent me a smily emoji with a kissing lips thing. WTH?? Then a note saying that she "has a crush on me".
Holy crap, WTH is going on?
I said thanks for the compliment and tried to diffuse the situation.
She went back and forth between apologizing and feeling embarrassed, to sending more kissy face things and hearts. I suggested maybe there was some alcohol involved here, and she said "yeah, but doesn't change how I feel."
Yikes!!
It ended with another kissy face emoji.
She sent a note this am, apologizing again, with a blushing emoji.
I sense it will be a bit awkward the next time we are both in the office.
At the beginning of this year, our office has moved, and she sits at a desk that is conducive to swiveling around and chatting.
We are realtors, so....there is a lot of chatting. I have discovered we know many of the same people (we live near each other), our kids are in roughly the same age bracket, we are into similar music, and we both find our business challenging. In other words, there is LOTS to talk about. I have also, with more experience in the biz, mentored her quite a bit of the past couple of months, in an informal way. Given her guidance on a number of client issues, etc. We are also FB "friends".
Over the past two weeks, this has spilled over into "off hours" via text message. I didn't see this as unusual, as it's not uncommon to come home at 9PM after finishing with a client, so her texting me saying "they didn't like anything and we'll be looking at more houses tomorrow" seemed perfectly fine, as well as responding to it and "chatting" for a few minutes.
Well, things took a different turn over the past 36 hours. At 12:30AM Sat, she texted asking if I was up, as she couldn't sleep and had a charity 5K to do in the AM. I was asleep, BTW, so didn't see it. I did respond in the AM though, saying "yeah, I was asleep" and left it at that.
Fast forward o 8PM last night, where she sent something to me that made no sense, and said "sorry, wrong thread". Then, an hour and a half later, she sent me a smily emoji with a kissing lips thing. WTH?? Then a note saying that she "has a crush on me".
Holy crap, WTH is going on?
I said thanks for the compliment and tried to diffuse the situation.
She went back and forth between apologizing and feeling embarrassed, to sending more kissy face things and hearts. I suggested maybe there was some alcohol involved here, and she said "yeah, but doesn't change how I feel."
Yikes!!
It ended with another kissy face emoji.
She sent a note this am, apologizing again, with a blushing emoji.
I sense it will be a bit awkward the next time we are both in the office.
