[tzs]

> While I think it is very true the question I asked myself is, should my company be the training ground for people to learn to get along ?

> The answer I came up with is a resounding no. I think that knowing how to interact with the opposite sex is something the individual is responsible for before even entering the work place. If they want to pay me to teach them manners then so be it, but I am not going to pay them to teach them manners.

60 years ago, that would be spot on. Back then there was a very clear distinction between work life and social life. Furthermore, there was much more separation of job by sex so that even if you were engaging in a social relationship with an opposite sex coworker you would probably not have much interaction with them while at work.

The workplace nowadays, especially in many tech companies, is quite a bit different than the '50s tech workplace. Companies now often deliberately try to mix work life and social life, often aiming for an environment that is more like college than like a workplace. Startups often keep employees so busy that they must spend long hours at work, leaving little time to maintain an outside social life.

How this strange mix of work and social is handled is often quite different from company to company.