not even pink and sparkly with monkeys painted on it make me want it, much less need it.

The Hello Kitty electronics are cute when I see them in stores, but the thought of having them in my house? nsm.

I got an earlier flight back from my business trip. Got in 5 hours earlier. BEST THING THIS WEEK.

Which is to say, yes.

If you have one and hate the term, what term would you use instead?

I think I had a work husband for a while at my last gig. I say so mostly because I ended up in the position of worrying about his diet and general mental boundaries. And he seemed more than okay with it.

If you can, go for it.

Kinda what I'm thinking. But also scary and Not In Line With The (as yet unplanned) Plan.

I don't think I've ever heard of a work spouse. If I'd heard it in the wild, I probably would've guessed it referred to a situation of spending way too much time with them (as opposed to w/real spouse), and not to being close buds.

That's another "huh" for the day, I guess.

The Hello Kitty electronics are cute when I see them in stores

The sheer pinkness kinda scared me.

I have a work wife. It was an arranged marriage. My manager thought that we would be a good work match. She insisted on doing things like making sure we roomed together when we went to conferences and such. It's been a happy marriage. But, I also cheat on her with my work mistress. And that's the most fun.

The DVD player needed to be more white with pink highlights, like Hello herself.

I found this work spouse def:

I am fascinated with the Work Husband, Work Wife relationship. By definition it is a situation where two people (usually a man and a woman) who work so well together, spend so much time together and do so much for each other they act like husband and wife. These two people usually never speak to each other outside of work but in that environment they are inseparable and will always defend the other in all confrontations there.

I wasn't quite that married, but it was a bit of a case of "we can pick on each other but you can't." His work older sister would fit too.

That is an interesting definition. I definitely think my work wife and I are like that. Maybe not inseparable, but definitely got each others back in a tight spot. And we don't socialize outside of work, which I never thought about until now. As opposed to my work mistress, who I hang out with outside of work all the time.

Never heard the term before. I think I probably have a work wife, except that we are friends outside of work as well.

Oooh, that sounds exciting, amych.

Yay msbelle!

I have a class-wife. Although I do see her from time to time after school. We often refer to ourself as "the same person"

I have one of those, although we are generally BFF. But people are always calling us by the other's name.

Which reminds me of the term work-wife or work-husband. Would anyone here say they have one?

I had a work husband before I met Scott, although I probably wouldn't have seen it that way, at the time. It got awkward once Scott (who worked for the same company, but 7 floors away) and I were serious. To be clear, it wasn't awkward because of Scott. I think work-husband had a problem with it.

W-h then dated a new woman in our group who turned out to have enormous issues, and he had terrible problems with her. I think she might have gotten pregnant and miscarried, but our work-marriage was strained by then and I'd been made acting supervisor through a weird confluence of events.

Soon after, I got a better job and left the group entirely, landing in an office, not far from the cubical area where we'd all sat. I was just thinking about this last night, because we watched The Office, (U.S. version) and I found myself 'shipping * Jim and Pam, and then realizing they reminded me a little of w-h, and me, before things got complicated.