Technology | Facebook Facebook Has an Interesting Dating Rule Employees get one shot to get a co-worker to go out with them By Kate Seamons Posted Feb 11, 2018 4:05 PM CST Copied In this Tuesday, April 18, 2017, file photo, a conference worker passes a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. Facebook Inc. reports earnings Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) Buried in a larger piece about how companies are handling employee relationships in the wake of the #metoo movement—the upshot: they're reexamining their relationship policies and, per one lawyer, "drawing a hard line in the sand" about those in plum positions dating subordinates—comes an interesting dating nugget. The Wall Street Journal reports on a particular part of Facebook's policy: Employees are permitted to ask a co-worker out once, and if the answer is a no—and even an ambiguous or gentle-seeming one, like "Oh, I already have plans Friday night"—they aren't permitted to ask again. The Journal reports that Google shares the same policy, but Gizmodo says it spoke with a Google rep who clarified there wasn't a formal date-request count set in its policy. Reaction to the tidbit was varied. Breitbart News calls the policy "dystopian." At Slate, Susan Matthews calls it a "quietly radical" policy. "At its heart, the policy echoes the principles of affirmative consent that so often get their college-age adherents mercilessly mocked—that consent should be energetic and unambiguous." (This first date allegedly ended extremely badly.) Read These Next Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Some of the most explosive Diddy allegations are dropped. Fan who taunted Ketel Marte's mom has been banned by MLB. Report an error