Manager Infatuation
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Okay, since I last posted an update I had lost interest in E - mainly due to the tyranny over the 'donations' part at work. The fundraiser we had was for Breast Cancer, biggest one that the company raises donations for. Throughout the month of October we had a ton of pissed off customers, management was going insane - especially E. Our store director actually sent E home early one day because he was yelling at a new cashier that had only been at the register for 3-4 hours, because he wasn't "holding up the donation card to show he was trying." I simply stopped talking to E, because I had no heart to harass customers with donation inquiries on a constant basis. E didn't care how I felt about the matter and kept nagging at me, but for a week or two he simply left me alone because my coworkers told him that he personally pissed me off too much and that his presence was the reason why I wasn't getting very many donations. Partially true, yes.. eventually he confronted me about it and explained that even he didn't want to deal with it, but that corporate gave nasty conference calls, and that the store director made him in charge of coordinating the donation drive for our store.
We managed to get 1st place in the entirety of Texas out of about 113 stores. Does hardly anyone working at our store care? No, only management. The very last week, and the week after our donation drive was over, E began apologizing to me here and there. And then something wonderful in my life happened: I joined a gay social group for the county/area I live in. When I posted an introduction on the group I mentioned that I'm an aspiring mobile game developer. On next day the founder of the group sent me a personal email telling me that he's involved with a mobile app accelerator investor with some minor details and that I should get back with him. After exchanging some emails and then finally talking over the phone, we met the next day at noon (on Halloween) to discuss potential business opportunities. He said it was too risky for him to personally invest, but that he'd talk with the mobile app accelerator that he knows and see if he could set up a meeting. A meeting was scheduled with the investor, Rohit, the following Thursday. The meeting went really well and Rohit said he'd give me a 6 month contract after he prepares some things including office space and a Mac for me to develop on, as he wants me to do both iPhone and Android game dev; I currently only do Android development, FYI.
Having said that, I won't be working at Tom Thumb after a few more weeks from now. All of my coworkers and management know about this offer and that I'll be leaving soon. Over the past month since the madness over Breast Cancer donations ended, E and I have been talking a lot more - as in, talking about things outside of work. He's gone back to giving me ridiculously huge smiles, started touching my shoulder as he walks by, and has started calling me 'brother'.
Today while I was working at the self-checkout registers (which are new to us, as of the week before Halloween) he was walking toward me and said "How's it going my brother?" while giving me a huge smile, then I said it was a really quiet day (as it was very dead at work today, since few are bothering to shop at a grocery store on Black Friday). He said "Yeah, it really is." Then he paused and while slightly facing me, his eyes directed downward, then back up to my eyes as if he were looking me up and down. He smiled, then walked over to the other side of a display (which I hadn't paid any attention to what the display was). A few moments later while still on the other side of the display, he asked me if I noticed we were selling videogames now. The display was full of Wii, NDS, PS3, and 360 children's games. I was a bit stunned, looked over the games and was talking with him about video games (which we had never done before; I didn't even know he liked video games at all). We both agreed that none of them were any good, though I said Lego Batman was probably the best out of all of them.
About 20-30min later when he came back to the self-checkout area, he began talking with me again and was asking me about my Thanksgiving, my sister, whether or not I cooked, foods he and I like, etc. I felt like he was analyzing me all day, but not in a bad way. Later in the evening when he was leaving for the night, he was at the self-checkout buying a variety of cleaning supplies, and before he finished he said he forgot to get trash bags. He wanted me to make sure the transaction didn't time out while he went to get some, and I did. He was really smiley when he came back, then when he finished he said he'd see me tomorrow and headed for the front door. I watched him as he left, and he turned his head and looked right at me just before he got to the door - he smiled and winked at me. To top that off, my coworker in the cash office said he overheard E and the grocery manager in the computer room joking around about being in bed together and doing things.
What a day.
We managed to get 1st place in the entirety of Texas out of about 113 stores. Does hardly anyone working at our store care? No, only management. The very last week, and the week after our donation drive was over, E began apologizing to me here and there. And then something wonderful in my life happened: I joined a gay social group for the county/area I live in. When I posted an introduction on the group I mentioned that I'm an aspiring mobile game developer. On next day the founder of the group sent me a personal email telling me that he's involved with a mobile app accelerator investor with some minor details and that I should get back with him. After exchanging some emails and then finally talking over the phone, we met the next day at noon (on Halloween) to discuss potential business opportunities. He said it was too risky for him to personally invest, but that he'd talk with the mobile app accelerator that he knows and see if he could set up a meeting. A meeting was scheduled with the investor, Rohit, the following Thursday. The meeting went really well and Rohit said he'd give me a 6 month contract after he prepares some things including office space and a Mac for me to develop on, as he wants me to do both iPhone and Android game dev; I currently only do Android development, FYI.
Having said that, I won't be working at Tom Thumb after a few more weeks from now. All of my coworkers and management know about this offer and that I'll be leaving soon. Over the past month since the madness over Breast Cancer donations ended, E and I have been talking a lot more - as in, talking about things outside of work. He's gone back to giving me ridiculously huge smiles, started touching my shoulder as he walks by, and has started calling me 'brother'.
Today while I was working at the self-checkout registers (which are new to us, as of the week before Halloween) he was walking toward me and said "How's it going my brother?" while giving me a huge smile, then I said it was a really quiet day (as it was very dead at work today, since few are bothering to shop at a grocery store on Black Friday). He said "Yeah, it really is." Then he paused and while slightly facing me, his eyes directed downward, then back up to my eyes as if he were looking me up and down. He smiled, then walked over to the other side of a display (which I hadn't paid any attention to what the display was). A few moments later while still on the other side of the display, he asked me if I noticed we were selling videogames now. The display was full of Wii, NDS, PS3, and 360 children's games. I was a bit stunned, looked over the games and was talking with him about video games (which we had never done before; I didn't even know he liked video games at all). We both agreed that none of them were any good, though I said Lego Batman was probably the best out of all of them.
About 20-30min later when he came back to the self-checkout area, he began talking with me again and was asking me about my Thanksgiving, my sister, whether or not I cooked, foods he and I like, etc. I felt like he was analyzing me all day, but not in a bad way. Later in the evening when he was leaving for the night, he was at the self-checkout buying a variety of cleaning supplies, and before he finished he said he forgot to get trash bags. He wanted me to make sure the transaction didn't time out while he went to get some, and I did. He was really smiley when he came back, then when he finished he said he'd see me tomorrow and headed for the front door. I watched him as he left, and he turned his head and looked right at me just before he got to the door - he smiled and winked at me. To top that off, my coworker in the cash office said he overheard E and the grocery manager in the computer room joking around about being in bed together and doing things.
What a day.
Well E seems like an interesting guy, slightly mood but from what you've said he seems to like you try making a move not saying ask him out just a suggestive little gesture, from what you've said about him seems like he might think it and ask you out or somthing to that degree good luck and hope it works out
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And for all you people who said a smile is sexual harassment, a lot of companies should just go out of businesses,some encourage the smiling to promote a healthly working environment -.-
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And for all you people who said a smile is sexual harassment, a lot of companies should just go out of businesses,some encourage the smiling to promote a healthly working environment -.-
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Wow, interesting stuff, Auron. I can totally relate to it, too. Back in the mid-late '90s, I worked at a major toy store (I'm figuring you can probably guess which one), and the guy who worked as my supervisor was, without a doubt, my first major crush and probably the first person I've been in love with. When I first started working there I was a relatively shy 20-year old and hadn't had many life experiences. About three months after I began working there, W came to work at the store, and from the moment I laid eyes on him it was (for me) love at first sight. He had gorgeous blue eyes, red hair that was just about chin length and a wonderful smile. We instantly began to talk, and I found out we had a lot in common as far as extracurricular activites were concerned. As the weeks and months passed by, I found myself being totally infatuated with this guy. It got so bad that I would literally well up with tears when thinking about him. If ever he came into the store and didn't say "Hi" to me in a chipper way, or in a way that I thought he should, it would upset me. W became friends with one of the managers of the store, often going out to happy hour, etc., with him, and I would often find myself being envious of their friendship. I'll never forget this one time when we had a blizzard, and the store was nearly empty, and he came up to me and told me I could bail out early. When telling me this, he grabbed his crotch and shifted it, and I immediately became flushed. W was always doing or saying something totally "dirty", be it telling a colorful joke, talking about jacking off or cursing like a sailor, and it turned me on. Once, when we were in the back of the store and customers were waiting out front for me to come out and help, I expressed to him how I really didn't feel like it. There was a big tinted window where I was standing--where we could see out to customers but they couldn't see us--and W said, "Just whip your dick out at 'em." If I can remember correctly, I think I got hard when he said it! I can remember the two of us being in the lunch room and him offering me a slice of his pizza, and when he finished eating and left, I moved to the seat he was sitting in just so that I could still feel the warmth of him there. And there was the time the two of us were back by the videogames and he was telling me about how shitty his day had been, and when my name was called over the loud speaker I had to leave him (which ticked me off), and, before I left, he said "Do you really have to go?"
As the years passed (I worked there for roughly three years), W's hair grew so long that he'd keep it pulled back in a ponytail, and once when he was in the storage room in back he let it down and began running his fingers through it, and I almost passed out right there. I so desperately wanted to tell him that I was in love/lust with him, but didn't have the cojones. Not even when he invited me to his place to show me his darkroom (he was into photography). Years later I kicked myself for not taking him up on that one. Anyway, in mid 1999 I decided it was time for me to leave that job, and one day when I came in I was shocked to find out that W had cut all of his hair off, much shorter than it was when he first started working there. When I asked why he did it, his response nearly floored me. "I did it for the wedding," he said. I couldn't believe it. I knew he had a kid, but I had no idea that he was still with the kid's mom and that they were getting married. Of course, I told him how happy I was for him, and even went so far as to run a hand through his newly-shorn locks (which he didn't seem to mind, by the way). I was suddenly glad that I was leaving because knowing that the love of my life was about to get married was crushing to say the least. But, before I left for good, I had to take a few small mementos. As a supervisor, W was always writing things down in notebooks for us who worked under him to do, and one day I found them and tore all of the pages out that he'd written for me so that I'd remember his handwriting. Also, there were photos of several of us employees on a bulletin board in the breakroom, and I managed to swipe the one of W, and to this day I still have it. As it turned out, W was leaving that store as well, and going to work at another type of retailer, and not long after the day that I rubbed my fingers through his hair, I didn't see him again for an entire decade.
Wonder of wonders, because of a certain social networking site that I'm sure we're all aware of (and have a page on), I reconnected with W after years of thinking about him nearly every day and wondering where he was. We got together to do something of mutual interest that a lot of people were involved in, and I found myself reverting back to that shy kid when I first saw him again. He's a little heavier now, and has kept his hair short, but he still didn't fail to make me weak in the knees. His wife's pretty cool too, and now we communicate all the time through that social networking site. He's still into photography, too. I still occasionally find myself drifting back to thoughts of those times at the store with him though, and I can't help but wonder if I'd just spoken up about my feelings maybe things could have been different.
As the years passed (I worked there for roughly three years), W's hair grew so long that he'd keep it pulled back in a ponytail, and once when he was in the storage room in back he let it down and began running his fingers through it, and I almost passed out right there. I so desperately wanted to tell him that I was in love/lust with him, but didn't have the cojones. Not even when he invited me to his place to show me his darkroom (he was into photography). Years later I kicked myself for not taking him up on that one. Anyway, in mid 1999 I decided it was time for me to leave that job, and one day when I came in I was shocked to find out that W had cut all of his hair off, much shorter than it was when he first started working there. When I asked why he did it, his response nearly floored me. "I did it for the wedding," he said. I couldn't believe it. I knew he had a kid, but I had no idea that he was still with the kid's mom and that they were getting married. Of course, I told him how happy I was for him, and even went so far as to run a hand through his newly-shorn locks (which he didn't seem to mind, by the way). I was suddenly glad that I was leaving because knowing that the love of my life was about to get married was crushing to say the least. But, before I left for good, I had to take a few small mementos. As a supervisor, W was always writing things down in notebooks for us who worked under him to do, and one day I found them and tore all of the pages out that he'd written for me so that I'd remember his handwriting. Also, there were photos of several of us employees on a bulletin board in the breakroom, and I managed to swipe the one of W, and to this day I still have it. As it turned out, W was leaving that store as well, and going to work at another type of retailer, and not long after the day that I rubbed my fingers through his hair, I didn't see him again for an entire decade.
Wonder of wonders, because of a certain social networking site that I'm sure we're all aware of (and have a page on), I reconnected with W after years of thinking about him nearly every day and wondering where he was. We got together to do something of mutual interest that a lot of people were involved in, and I found myself reverting back to that shy kid when I first saw him again. He's a little heavier now, and has kept his hair short, but he still didn't fail to make me weak in the knees. His wife's pretty cool too, and now we communicate all the time through that social networking site. He's still into photography, too. I still occasionally find myself drifting back to thoughts of those times at the store with him though, and I can't help but wonder if I'd just spoken up about my feelings maybe things could have been different.
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E is about as straight as I am!!! This has to be one of the most interesting stories ever. So, after pouring over 165 posts over the last hour, I think I will put my 2 cents in.
Auron, you remind me of myself in so many ways. You are a great person, with a great disposition, and personality. Whoever you end up with will be a very lucky man!
Now let me tell you a little about me. When I met my fiance, we worked together. He was a manager, and I was a new employee. He was my boss, and he also trained me. We were great friends at work, and somewhere along the way I became infatuated as well. He is uber masculine, and there was no doubt in my mind that he was straight. One day he came to work really upset about something. He didn't acknowledge me the entire day, and later on in the shift, he asked if I could do 2 hours of overtime to help him with some things. I said yes without hesitation because I knew it would be juat the two of us. Boy was I wrong!! He left early, never said a word about leaving either. I could go on and on about the things he used to do for hours!
To make a long story short, another co-worker and mutual friend set us up to work together. I was put on the spot and all but forced to put it all out there. Working together for the next two days was painfully awkward! I felt like a stupid despirate idiot.
Finally, he pulled me aside at work and asked if I would like to take a walk with him after work. We talked for hours. He told me that his last relationship was with a women he wanted to marry. He said he was attracted to me from the first moment we met, but he didn't know why. He had never had feeling for another man before, and the day I started work, it was his birthday. Of course I never knew, and I didn't hear anyone tell him Happy Birthday. Now 2 years later, separate jobs, and we're engaged. A couple of weeks ago, be told me that was the best birthday gift ever. I love him more than life itself, and if it was not for our friend forcing me to tell him how I feel, we may not have ever been anything more than friends.
In short, I say this. We may not know if he is gay or straight, but he definitely likes you, and he is having a hard time dealing with it just like you are. Good luck man. I wish you all the best. This could go either way so be prepared for anything. Much love to you man. Your time will soon come. Continue to keep us posted. I'll be praying for you!
I would also appreciate if you could check out my dilemma and tell me what you think.
http://www.lpsg.org/212957-the-world-as-i-know.html
E is about as straight as I am!!! This has to be one of the most interesting stories ever. So, after pouring over 165 posts over the last hour, I think I will put my 2 cents in.
Auron, you remind me of myself in so many ways. You are a great person, with a great disposition, and personality. Whoever you end up with will be a very lucky man!
Now let me tell you a little about me. When I met my fiance, we worked together. He was a manager, and I was a new employee. He was my boss, and he also trained me. We were great friends at work, and somewhere along the way I became infatuated as well. He is uber masculine, and there was no doubt in my mind that he was straight. One day he came to work really upset about something. He didn't acknowledge me the entire day, and later on in the shift, he asked if I could do 2 hours of overtime to help him with some things. I said yes without hesitation because I knew it would be juat the two of us. Boy was I wrong!! He left early, never said a word about leaving either. I could go on and on about the things he used to do for hours!
To make a long story short, another co-worker and mutual friend set us up to work together. I was put on the spot and all but forced to put it all out there. Working together for the next two days was painfully awkward! I felt like a stupid despirate idiot.
Finally, he pulled me aside at work and asked if I would like to take a walk with him after work. We talked for hours. He told me that his last relationship was with a women he wanted to marry. He said he was attracted to me from the first moment we met, but he didn't know why. He had never had feeling for another man before, and the day I started work, it was his birthday. Of course I never knew, and I didn't hear anyone tell him Happy Birthday. Now 2 years later, separate jobs, and we're engaged. A couple of weeks ago, be told me that was the best birthday gift ever. I love him more than life itself, and if it was not for our friend forcing me to tell him how I feel, we may not have ever been anything more than friends.
In short, I say this. We may not know if he is gay or straight, but he definitely likes you, and he is having a hard time dealing with it just like you are. Good luck man. I wish you all the best. This could go either way so be prepared for anything. Much love to you man. Your time will soon come. Continue to keep us posted. I'll be praying for you!
I would also appreciate if you could check out my dilemma and tell me what you think.
http://www.lpsg.org/212957-the-world-as-i-know.html
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Michael Angel, thanks for thinking of us with this update. And it sounds like E is acting the typical Cancer diva and wigging out at his work, and now it's percolating through his brain that you are going to be gone soon. I hope he becomes a friend away from work so you guys can get to know one another with that pressure removed.
I am so glad to know that you found a support circle and feel less alone. Good luck in your chosen field.
I am so glad to know that you found a support circle and feel less alone. Good luck in your chosen field.
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Auron is going to dump him and then feel like a huge weight has been lifted from his soul perhaps?
or else they become blood brothers?
Okay, sorry for the lack of response. I haven't been using my computer much lately.. been consumed with work and finding time with friends. Not much has happened though, aside from the fact that I think I've finally moved on from E and have begun another potential interest in a guy closer to my age (whose family I spent Christmas day with after work! - more details in a seperate thread if interested.. another guy I'm not entirely sure about, but we seem to be clicking as friends VERY fast).
Thanks everyone for reading this year long story about my interest in the manager at work. I still won't reveal his name of course due to respect of his privacy, but I've accepted that he's just a weird straight guy that is probably unconciously flirty with me. To this day I've yet to spend any time with him outside of work, but I'm fine with that. We both like being around each other and make each other smile and whatnot, and that's a positive thing to work with. He's dating another manager (the Bakery manager, actually) and has been with her for at least half a year now.
As for the other guy, I'm thinking about starting another thread about that, but haven't decided yet. We'll see.
Thanks everyone for reading this year long story about my interest in the manager at work. I still won't reveal his name of course due to respect of his privacy, but I've accepted that he's just a weird straight guy that is probably unconciously flirty with me. To this day I've yet to spend any time with him outside of work, but I'm fine with that. We both like being around each other and make each other smile and whatnot, and that's a positive thing to work with. He's dating another manager (the Bakery manager, actually) and has been with her for at least half a year now.
As for the other guy, I'm thinking about starting another thread about that, but haven't decided yet. We'll see.
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It's a new year and your friendships at work are to be treasured for what they are. Great that you even got to spend holiday time with them. Romance and friendship may be compatible but romance and work are best kept separate anyway. Ten percent versus ninety percent means your love interest is going to be a long time showing himself.
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