A video has gone viral highlighting the relatable experience of crushing on your coworkers.
I don’t think anyone is immune to crushing on a coworker every now and then — and usually it’s pretty harmless. This is why the whole idea of a work wife or a work husband came to be! One TikTok user has described the phenomenon being a little bit more specific — when you’re crushing on your UGLY coworkers in particular, which is apparently something that a lot of people can relate to.
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“When you start to get little crushes on your ugly co-workers bc they’re the only ppl you socialize with,” her video reads.
“HAHAH and then I realize and I’m like wtf was I thinking,” she captioned the video, following up with a comment that clarifies, “If we work together I’m kidding.”
People in the comments could obviously relate.
“After he chose someone else I was like ???” one commenter shared. “This man is a drop out who wakes up at 6am just to smoke, why’d I let myself get down for that?”
“Literally I had a crush on a 2 mediocre dudes my height, bc I had the [same] shift as them,” another laughed.
One commenter even had an explanation for it.
“It’s an actual thing! I learned in Psych that it’s called the proximity effect,”
The Proximity effect states that “people who sit physically closer together in the same office or classroom are more likely to form relationships than those who sit farther apart. As a result, people may be more likely to strike up a friendship with their lab partner at school or their co-worker in the next cubicle than they are with someone else.”
So that might be one reason your coworkers start looking a little bit better to you over time!
