A Mr. & Mrs. Smith situation

**PJC** · February 3rd, 2006 02:04 AM

Hello everyone, need help on a Mr. & Mrs. Smith kind of a situation.

Your gf/bf is being hired by a company that promises him/her a huge career leap and lotsa benefits but that company is your organization's rival. Despite your objections and arguments about it, your partner takes the offer and signs up. And you're both into sales, you sell the same products and services in the same industry. You still don't have the same set of clients but you feel that pretty soon you'll meet in the same account and go against each other. Your organizations are bitter rivals and you're getting unwanted attention because your colleagues and most of your clients already know about it. Your flourishing career is threatened by the conflicting situation. Your relationship is starting to have more and more arguments about work and career rivalries. :fight: Do you give one up to relieve you of the conflict? Or do you just live with it and watch either one die a slow and natural death?

Need your advice... Thanks a lot in advance!

**nmtin** · February 3rd, 2006 02:15 AM

unilever and P&G? I've heard of stories like this before and in the end you have to choose one or the other?

**PJC** · February 3rd, 2006 02:27 AM

Something like that rivalry, but the organizations are smaller so the news spread out to everybody real quick. Service and communications equipment provider that cater to call centers and similar IT organizations.

**the_wildthing** · February 3rd, 2006 02:33 AM

Napag-uusapan naman yan eh. Work is work. Home life is home life. It would be a struggle to keep them separate.

Although I have a friend who was "asked" by management to "pressure" the wife into resigning.

**konde** · February 3rd, 2006 02:34 AM

healthy competition is........always healthy!

wag lang kayong magpapatayan! hehehehehrhehrhehe

**NightRock** · February 3rd, 2006 02:56 AM

sabi nga nila "trabaho lang walang personalan".... both of you have to show your best.. pero pagusapan nyo lang mabuti na walang taasan ng ego

**oldblue** · February 3rd, 2006 03:40 AM

since bf/gf mo pa lang naman sya, think of the inevitable. sa tingin ko mahihirapan nga kayo, bayaw ko sa sales ng tsikot ganyan din kinauwian, naghiwalay na lang, kawawa nga lang yun baby.

**1D4LV** · February 3rd, 2006 08:59 AM

hmmm. i don't see it as a problem, but a way for you to grow because of the challenge.
and besides, treat is just like work....dont let it affect your personal life and your relationship.

**CoDer** · February 3rd, 2006 09:00 AM

Medyo problema nga yang kung balak mong pakasalan.

IMHO. dapat may mag giveup na isa. Siguradong gulo kasi yan, ngayon medyo ayos lang kaka-umpisa pa lang ata eh. Pero di magtatagal, magkaka-roon na ng lamat yan.

Same job description, same target market, Company Rival. Perfect!!!

**CVT** · February 3rd, 2006 09:20 AM

You have to view the other person as your partner, with the same capacity and capability as yourself. Now, isn't this the best opportunity to prove just that?

Partnership in life should be viewed as a permanent state of affairs; Work, for all its worth, isn't.