Hi,

Your response didn't sound cynical at all! Thanks for reading all that! He doesn't wear a wedding ring so I'm pretty sure he's not married. Every time he buys things with his employee discount it's always clothes for himself or snacks, haha. I'm not sure if he has a girlfriend because we never got into any deep conversations. I'm not really close with anyone else in the store. I get along with the associates I work with and they all seem to like me. They'll say they miss me if I'm being moved around the several places I work around in the store. I'm trained for several roles and I guess my crush picked up on how I'm a reliable, attentive, and quick learner. When I'm not working, I'm attending my evening graduate classes or catching up on my assignments on my days off. My friends have been telling me to just find a way to talk to him more. Or just be up front and say I'm interested + give him my number. Our schedules also don't align since he works long hours and I usually leave the store whereas he stays until closing. I've never sat down at the break room during the time he takes his lunch. I've only seen him twice in the break room and it was just to pop in to say hi or grab something from one of the guys.

I'm still not too sure if he's actually flirting though. What do you think? I'm not bold enough to ask for his number or give mine out without knowing for sure if he likes me. If anything were to happen I'm sure he would do the right thing and alert HR. He seems very close with a few of the managers. Unlike the other loss prevention detectives he's always walking around the store and never talking on the phone. Some of these other guys just talk on the phone for a good majority of their shift.

I feel like the only way to get to know him would be in a setting outside of work, but that means I would have to ask him. That would be a dead giveaway...if he doesn't already have a clue already. He's very perceptive so I'm sure he knows or is at least suspicious.