Should married people be required to wear their wedding ring

[Ifreann]

a ring requirement is a bit of an overstep of ones personal choices. this is definitely an over-reaction. That said, saying you were married in the first place may have kept this fiasco from happening to begin with. dont let the communists who will inevitably infect this chat with toxic sludge about their view on your marriage discourage you

How are we involved in this? I am seriously baffled.

Das Kapital was actually about how monogamy is evil.

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No, you shouldn't be required to wear a wedding ring if you're married. You shouldn't even be required to have one.

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

[The Alma Mater]

How are we involved in this? I am seriously baffled.

Das Kapital was actually about how monogamy is evil.

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No, you shouldn't be required to wear a wedding ring if you're married. You shouldn't even be required to have one.

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

Well, it matters WHERE one wears the ring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uztj3vp-RI

[Kowani]

We’ll have you wear a giant neon sign disclaiming that you’re married
There, everyone’s happy

[Rusozak]

I have an other idea. How about something to let people know you're open to a relationship, advertise you're single and seeking. Like a horga'hn from Star Trek. It would save a lot of guessing and wasted effort.

[The Alma Mater]

I have an other idea. How about something to let people know you're open to a relationship, advertise you're single and seeking. Like a horga'hn from Star Trek. It would save a lot of guessing and wasted effort.

Or, one can ASK people about things like relationship status.

[Ifreann]

I have an other idea. How about something to let people know you're open to a relationship, advertise you're single and seeking. Like a horga'hn from Star Trek. It would save a lot of guessing and wasted effort.

Or, one can ASK people about things like relationship status.

That's communism!(?)

[Whitemore]

I have an other idea. How about something to let people know you're open to a relationship, advertise you're single and seeking. Like a horga'hn from Star Trek. It would save a lot of guessing and wasted effort.

Or, one can ASK people about things like relationship status.

Yeah, it's not hard to ask someone if they are single or not. It's the girls fault and this is a huge overreaction.

[Ifreann]

Or, one can ASK people about things like relationship status.

Yeah, it's not hard to ask someone if they are single or not. It's the girls fault and this is a huge overreaction.

I think that sometimes when people embarrass themselves, they try to make the situation not their fault.

[The Holy Therns]

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

It's a start, but I won't say yes unless it's a wedding grill fork.

I like barbecues.

[Belshekistan]

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

It's a start, but I won't say yes unless it's a wedding grill fork.

I like barbecues.

Fools. Wedding gun.

[The Archregimancy]

Did it not occur to her to ask someone at a much earlier stage if you were in a relationship or not?

I mean, forcing married individuals to wear their wedding ring isn't going to help her if she takes a shine to someone who's cohabiting without being married, or in some other form of serious relationship.


Anyway, one person's temporary embarrassment isn't grounds for making company policy.

You, on the other hand, have a fairly solid case for making a complaint about harassment.

[Ifreann]

It's a start, but I won't say yes unless it's a wedding grill fork.

I like barbecues.

Fools. Wedding gun.

With this Kalashnikov, I thee wed.

[Kragholm Free States]

Well this is a dumb thread. No.

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

Now this I can get behind.

[The Holy Therns]

It's a start, but I won't say yes unless it's a wedding grill fork.

I like barbecues.

Fools. Wedding gun.

Sorry, hard no.

[Rusozak]

It's a start, but I won't say yes unless it's a wedding grill fork.

I like barbecues.

Fools. Wedding gun.

Gives "shotgun wedding" a new meaning.

[The Archregimancy]

No, you shouldn't be required to wear a wedding ring if you're married. You shouldn't even be required to have one.

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

You should try the Orthodox Church; we have wedding crowns.

Seriously

[Stellar Colonies]

No, of course not. It shouldn't be obligatory for someone in a marriage to wear a wedding ring, and the coworker should have stopped at the refusal. Instituting that requirement is ridiculous.

I have an other idea. How about something to let people know you're open to a relationship, advertise you're single and seeking. Like a horga'hn from Star Trek. It would save a lot of guessing and wasted effort.

I read a science fiction book by Larry Niven about a human society which communicated moods and social status (not class) via patterns, colors, textures, etc. of clothing. If I remember correctly from it, pink signaled interest in a relationship and all black signaled a desire to avoid one.

But generally in real life, verbal communication as to whether someone is interested or not should be sufficient, although it would be convenient to have a symbol to indicate lack of interest in an intimate relationship but open interest in a more conventional, friend-friend one.

[Ifreann]

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

You should try the Orthodox Church; we have wedding crowns.

Seriously

*google*

Awesome. Awesome to the max.

[Belshekistan]

Wedding ring: Boring, plain, easily missed
Wedding sword: Magnificent, powerful, practical

You should try the Orthodox Church; we have wedding crowns.

Seriously

Alright y'all might've just gained a convert

[The New California Republic]

If they are made compulsory in the workplace then at least say that they need to be onion rings, so that they actually have some use.

[Neutraligon]

I'm an engineer, if I were to wear a ring while testing and prototyping I think my teachers would kill me. No loose clothing, no long earrings, no rings, and god forbid you wear a necklace.

[Wallenburg]

Well this didn't go over well and she has now proposed a change to the employee handbook that married personnel should wear their wedding rings/bands to avoid confusion and is trying to garner support for this change, so far no one has signed on. She said if she knew I was married she would have dropped the pursuit and avoided embarrassing herself.

Maybe she should try not hitting on her coworkers. Doing so is rarely a good idea.

Is a person owed a further explanation to a response of "NO", "Naw, I'm good" and "I'm not interested"?

No.

Why does it matter if a person is married or not, shouldn't no mean no?

Yes.

If the roles were reversed wouldn't holy hell rain down on the guy?

Depends. Most often a man would face about the same degree of consequences as she seems to be facing: that is, none.

Why do some women think they are entitled to a man's attention/time and NO just isn't an acceptable answer?

Same reason that some men think the same. A basic lack of respect for others' agency and wishes.

When I am at work, I'm there to work, I've done the inter-office/coworker romance thing when I was younger and the majority of the time it never ends well, so I avoid it after learning it the hard way.

Exactly. This was a bad idea on her part from the beginning.

[Thermodolia]

Well she’s a silly one.

Interestingly there’s now polycarbonate rings available.

But ya if you tell someone “No” you don’t need to give an explanation

[The Holy Therns]

I'm an engineer, if I were to wear a ring while testing and prototyping I think my teachers would kill me. No loose clothing, no long earrings, no rings, and god forbid you wear a necklace.

To be fair, it'd stick out a bit on the bat costume.

[Kragholm Free States]

I'm an engineer, if I were to wear a ring while testing and prototyping I think my teachers would kill me. No loose clothing, no long earrings, no rings, and god forbid you wear a necklace.

To be fair, it'd stick out a bit on the bat costume.

So did rubber nipples, but that never stopped anyone.