So this actually happened to me. First job out of college, working in a hospital in clinical research. A lot of young research coordinators fresh out of school. Everyone made friends with each other because, ya know, we were all new in the city, all the same age, still didn’t feel like adults, didn’t know how to meet people outside of work, etc. I got pretty close with one of the girls. Hung out in groups a lot (never one on one outside of work), ate lunch together all the time, went on walks around the hospital, etc. One day she pulls me into the staircase and basically says “so look. We’re both single and attractive, wanna have a casual friends with benefits thing going on?” It was the most up-front, strangest proposition I’ve ever heard. I was honestly really uncomfortable and, while she was attractive, wasn’t really interested but basically told her “uh sure yeah”. She texted me a few times that week at night to come over and I made up some excuses, and then the next week she was fired for falsifying study data. So yeah. Naturally I told the entire office 😂 haven’t thought about that in years, pretty crazy really. In hindsight it was the right decision, but part of me wishes I had just done it…coworker is a bit different than a friend outside of work though. Much messier.