• Rooster326@programming.dev
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      If she is meeting him out of work, going to dinner, “cackling” whatever that means.

      There’s something in it for her too. Ain’t nobody that naive

  • Janx@piefed.social
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    Take a work wife (which is already a psychotic term), remove the “work” part, and act you invented this new type of relationship…

    What are you even talking about!?

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      Tech morons are always acting like they’ve just discovered fundamental features of the human experience for the very first time.

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        Oh it is not just tech. Sailing and ships have ship wives which usually just means taking advantage of a newer person that is scared of saying no to a higher rank.

        Everyone likes to think they are new and original and good morally while being awful.

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    The expression “Bestie” is pretty weird in Germany, as it pronounced besty-uh and literally translates to “wild animal” or “monster”. “Larissa was a real “Bestie” in bed last night; I’m completely bruised and scratched all over. Glad I have my work wife!”

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    most of my colleagues are women, I get along with them great. We occasionally socialize a couple of times a year outside work. I would be mortified for anyone to think they were anything more than purely colleagues.

    like I wouldn’t really be happy to think of them as friends - not that they’re not lovely people, just that I have my friends who are friends, and these are nice people I work with.

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    Intersting the way people assume “wife” means sex, and not the more likely analogy that she does all the shitty work to aid his career.

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      Wife implies sex. The whole thing is usually “we would be fucking if we weren’t married to other people”. They can deny it all they want, but it’s mostly true.

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    Semantics aside, I wonder how she would describe the same relationship and what prompted him to post this in the first place.

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    I’ve had a “work wife” or two at every job I’ve had. Most of them were married, and I never hooked up with them. One of them told me she loved me, and divorced her husband because she wanted someone like me, even though we never so much as kissed. Two of them (single) became girlfriends, so not really “work wives.” I had two bosses’ wives hit on me, which I avoided. I haven’t kept in touch with any of them.

    There are a lot of women in the art and design field.