Coworker's huge crush on me?

[Pato]

Hey guys,

There's this girl I work with that has a really big crush on me. She texts me all the time and tries talking to me a lot when I'm at the office. She's kinda weird, but I guess objectively she's sorta cute, not my type though. Although I'm in college, I work in a professional office, so obviously inter-office relationships are frowned upon, and I could get in big trouble if anything happened. Even if they weren't frowned upon, I still wouldn't hook up with this girl. She's pretty naive, definitely pretty inexperienced, and she likes me a lot (probably wants me as her boyfriend, not just a hookup). She even knows that I don't feel the same way about her, but she told one of my female coworkers that she can't help herself. Pretty serious feelings.

She's a nice girl, so I'd rather not crush her. When she texts me, I respond about half the time, I take at least an hour or two to respond, and usually I don't even text a full sentence. I never text first and the exchanges are normally only two or three texts on my part before I stop responding. She doesn't seem to get the hint. In person I'm polite and I remain professional. I've told one of my female coworkers to drop hints that I don't like her and that I'm against workplace affairs/relationships, but she doesn't seem to understand or care. She also knows I fucked a girl in another office on a company trip, and found out which girl it was. My female coworker told me that she got pretty jealous and upset when she found out. But she still hasn't given up.

I'm not really sure what to do or how to approach this. If I do or say anything drastic, it could really hurt her, which would make me feel bad and could also cause problems in the office. But I also don't want to lead her along and make her think she has a chance with me. I don't know if I should outright tell her that I know she likes me and friendzone her, do nothing and just sorta deal with it, or something else.

Any suggestions on how to handle this?

Thanks,
Pato

 

[Eternity]

You lucky dog you, heh heh

In all seriousness, tell her to hook you up with some other hotter chick there cuz you would like to get to know her better and need a wingwoman. Tell her all about your dates with many women and how good the sex is (lie if you must). If she doesn't get the hint after that you have an obsessive stalker on your hands proceed with caution! Oh, tell her how you value your independence and how empowered you feel having control over your life.

 

[Pato]

Thanks, Eternity. Not a lot of other hot chicks there though and I don't want to get to know her better. I also feel telling her about dates and sex will just make her more aggressive. The past few days I've heard her talking about other guys/exes with some of my coworkers, I think she's trying to make me jealous, haha. Little does she know I don't give a shit, I just think it's funny. Somehow relationships and dating come up a lot at work when talking to coworkers, so I think using the last part will work. I can just say that I don't want a serious relationship for at least a few years til I'm well out of college and talk about how I always hit it and quit it and drop the girl. Maybe this will discourage her. I could also try to get my coworkers to bring up the girl I fucked frequently. But yeah she's weird, man.

 

[Eternity]

^Meant cuz you want to get to know the other hotter chicks better not your stalker.

 

[Pato]

Lol that makes way more sense, no idea why I read it the other way. Doing that would be funny, "Hey, chick that likes me! Be my wingwoman and set me up with another chick that's not you, so I can get to know her and fuck her instead of you." That might actually get her off my back, but there still aren't really any options in the office, and I would still get in trouble if I pursued other coworkers. I'll keep it in mind though for the future. In the short-term, I think I might just start going a bit cold in person, ignore her texts, and the likes. Mentioning other girls sounds good too. Just gotta make it obvious I don't like her.

 

[Eternity]

Be aware that she's probably gonna bad mouth you for rejecting her to protect her rep and ego. Shit is inevitable. When that happens deny any involvement in what ever she's saying and say you think she's a nice girl and seems like someone who might make a good friend but oh well gonna have to keep it professional from now on. Look out after your own rep, cuz no one will; might cost you your job if she cries harassment. They'll listen to her and not you unfortunately.