We New Yorkers love getting our hard-hitting news on Sunday mornings, which is why we turn to that bastion of journalistic integrity, The New York Daily News. So, what happened in the world this weekend? Blah, blah, blah, Chavez, blah, blah, blah, Putin, blah, blah, blah "Mohammed" teddy bear. Wait--what's this? Office party hookups? To quote our product reviews coordinator, PJ Jacobowitz, "Giggity, giggity, goo."
Just in time for your upcoming holiday party, The Daily News has a terrifically awkward story titled "Office Party Hookups, All Year Long." The story gives a rundown of the "rules," including, "keep your flirting to a minimum," "choose your target wisely," and "keep drinking to a minimum." All sage advice, to be sure.
And what's this? The story has a list of "five New York City offices [that] rival both the bar scene and Match.com when it comes to finding love." First up is Google. Oh man, we're taking meetings with those dudes all the times. Makes sense, though--we've seen that office. Rec rooms, cappuccino machines, and office scooters? That stuff's like Spanish fly.
VH1? Makes sense. The place is no doubt full of good-looking folks who are, like, totally into the new Coldplay record.
About.com? Not the sexiest tech company in the world, but I suppose that when it comes to the hookup, it pays to know about everything, ever.
Starrett-Lehigh? Never heard of it. But honestly, who isn't turn on by hyphenated names?
And the fifth company? Whaaaaa? PC Magazine? Yep, according to The Daily News, your favorite consumer tech publication is a veritable meat market for hot coworker-on-coworker action. Must be all those intense late nights spent debating the merits of Linux and benchmarking the latest Zune.
The story quotes Losee, a former PC Mag employee, who says, "Everybody dated everybody there...We would fly around the country to meet with representatives of companies who were making the products that we were reviewing in the magazine. So of course we'd go out in the evenings as a group. And we certainly didn't know anyone at our destinations." I don't know about you kids, but frequent flier miles and confusion are the first two things I look for in a mate.
For the record, Losee is Stephanie Losee, who worked at Mag back in the day. She married fellow Magger Tom Unger. Here's a New York Times story on that subject, from back in 1991.
Further Googling reveals that Mrs. Losee co-authored a book on the subject: Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding--and Managing--Romance on the Job. Now would be a good time to mention a recent study conducted by MIT, in which 95 percent of those surveyed considered non-fiction subtitle length a decisive factor when choosing a future life mate.
Whether or not PC Magazine still belongs in the top five (along with my patented PC Mag pickup lines, such as, "I didn't realize that PC stood for 'Pretty Cute") is a decision I'll leave with you, dear reader, lest I feel the wrath of Ziff Davis's HR department. In the meantime, I've gotta go redeem some of those frequent flier miles.
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