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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Was it the movie The Temp with Lara Flynn Boyle and Timothy Hutton that was like The Crush with Alicia Silverstone, but in a work setting?

That was a corporate setting though, with one of the main plot points being a clear line of promotion where the rivals to the position were one by one dying off which showed a clear goal for suspicion.

Of course if it were just an infatuation between a small time business owner and one of the workers, it would not make such an exciting story that would pull in the adult male demographic, would it not?

It would then just be a sad romantic movie about how men abuse their power over women, even in the work setting.

The only way to bring back the male viewers would be to show a little more skin that the story warrants.

But I digress, very distantly. What I am trying to point out is that there is hardly any big screen advice on how to deal with this kind of situation, especially if the boss does not ask for the attention.

What if the work is informal enough that they just usually sit around most of the day waiting for clients to arrive, and therefore have a lot of time to shoot the breeze? Add to that, what if part of the job is that the boss has to evaluate the therapeutic touch of the employee, allow her to touch his body?

Most of the time it is easy enough, that there is some other reason that can be used for the employer to terminate the employment, such as asking for too many sick days, or swiping off the counter funds.

But what if there is no other rationale apparent – in fact, in all other aspects the work is exemplary and the employment continues?

At the same time, the lines between boss and worker are blurred, at least in the eyes of the employee, and assumptions are made based on answers to questions with hidden meanings or those that are not directly answered with yes or no.

Also, attempts at avoiding further contact that can be misinterpreted as continued flirting or deepening of the relationship just leads to assumptions of playing hard to get, instead of what they really are.

Yeah, it all sounds so general, again having been taken up in aspects in movies like The Crush and Swim Fan.

But how does one deal with it in real life, without having to resort to murderous violence (I mean for the obsessed person, not for the victim). Are there any such cases of these that end amicably and not in the mental ward?

Does one have to rely on hidden cameras and constant video to be able to claim that nothing one done to provoke the situation and that it was all really just an exaggerated reaction of one party?

Is it really not going to work to just say: listen, I do not like you in that way, so please stop with your ministrations because it is really not appreciated and will not lead to the reciprocation you seek.

Of course I think in dealing with these people keeping to words of a few syllables would go down easier.

Session 3037 hopes people see that the last sentence was an attempt at a joke. Class dismissed.