Thursday, March 12, 2009
Many corporations discourage their employees from getting romantically involved. But for Madeline Johnson, Overland Park sophomore, and Jonathan Herrera-Thomas, Topeka sophomore, her first day on the job was the couple’s first date.
Johnson had transferred from one of the Overland Park Target locations to the Lawrence location at the start of her freshman year. And the stress started from the get-go.
Right on target: Madeline Johnson and Jonathan Herrera-Thomas met while working together at Target.
“They decided to schedule me the day I moved in,” Madeline says.
Jonathan had already been working at the Lawrence Target, and in preparation for a massive sale, the two were paired together for a six-hour shift running the guest service desk. The two immediately clicked and started talking.
“We had all the conversations you have on the first few dates,” Jonathan says.
After that, however, they hit a bit of a snag. After hitting it off, each had trouble defining exactly what they were becoming as a couple.
“The first few dates were confusing,” he says, “because we didn’t know if they were dates.”
But after three evenings they didn’t want to end—during which he taught her how to drive stick shift and she insisted they stop at a playground to build sandcastles—they had the talk and haven’t looked back. Neither work at Target anymore, but they admit they can’t help but feel a little tug at the heartstrings whenever they walk past the guest service counter.
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