E1094 Ask Nick - I Like My Coworker… But I'm HR
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
3.8 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller has developed a massive crush on her coworker and is ready to shoot her shot, except she works in HR. Our second caller is dating a genuinely great guy, stable, kind, everything on her checklist, and she feels absolutely nothing. So what does that mean? And our third caller is done swiping and getting nowhere. She wants to know if she's the problem or if the apps are just completely broken.
"You can't have high standards and like everybody."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Caller One
17:16 - Caller Two
32:36 - Caller Three
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| 0:31.2 | We'll be glad that you did. |
| 0:33.2 | All right. |
| 0:33.6 | Let's get to our first caller, but not before you go on and give us a follow. |
| 0:54.4 | Hi, Nick. I'm Mary. I'm 20. How's it going? |
| 0:56.3 | Hi, Nick. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Mary. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm 25 and I have a crush on my coworker, but I work in HR. |
| 1:04.1 | Oh, fun. |
| 1:07.1 | Well, what's your advice? |
| 1:16.2 | Well, so my dilemma is, I know workplace relationships are pretty taboo in a corporate environment and HR is who puts all the policies in place. So my question is, is this even |
| 1:23.5 | worth pursuing? And if so, how do I go about it? I can give some background. Yeah, |
| 1:29.6 | give me some background. Yeah. So there's a guy I met at work a few months ago who I used to sit |
| 1:36.7 | by and our conversations have always been really easy and fun and even flirty at times. |
| 1:48.0 | Plus, he's like exactly the kind of guy I'm looking for. |
| 1:57.5 | So I've been single for a few years and I've gotten really granular about what I'm looking for in my future boyfriend or husband. |
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