I had worked in a warehouse setting for 7.5 years with minimal encounters between myself and my fellow associates. Sure, we'd all sleep with each other, go out for drinks and enjoy each other's company, knowing it was only for companionship that we were sleeping together and nothing more.
Then, I switched facilities.
I was well versed with how warehouses function when I came to my new building. I had had a long sexual stint with a manager at the new facility which was new and exciting but ultimately a disaster and hazardous to my mental health. After that disappointment, I had thought to myself, "never again with someone I work with," and it turns out I was wrong about that.
I didn't know it would turn into more than just flirting, at first. My job required to call him everyday, multiple times a day, to verify information and resolve issues happening in the warehouse.
The phone call conversations grew less work related, and I grew more tense.
First, it was merely my teasing. I'd answer in a low "sex hotline" type voice, and he would appease me. We would talk about things like how long it's been for him, and he would joke about dating single moms at my sons preschool.
I consistently answered the phone in the sexiest voice I could muster every time he called. Then, after months of my teasing, he began to tease back.
He would ask me to run for coffee for him. He would poke fun at my healthy meals but ask me to bring him food (to which I obliged.) He asked me to work overtime for his department, because he thought I was just so great at my job, (oh, the flattery) he wanted me on his team. He would call me with his own 'sex hotline' voice, and once he'd hang up I would be left by myself in my office, wet and quickly approaching throbbing.
I came in for overtime. He was pissed that I was late and barely talked to me most of the night. No flirting, all business from him. I kept my head down and finished the shift.
I turned in my work at the end and told him- "ah well, I need to run to the store, even though it's 2am."