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This is how I ended up with my best friend/adopted brother/soul friend. We worked together, shift work, security. At the end of my shift, he’d come in about 20 minutes early, and I’d leave about 20 minutes late.
Eventually this morphed to us getting there about about an hour early, the other staying sometimes 4 hours late.
Finally we were just like “so, uh, we doing this or not? We gonna be friends?” And, yeah, turns out we were.
Reading this has relaxed a frown I’ve been wearing for the entire day.
Whoa! High praise
Not that high, a stroke can do the same thing.
We should all be so lucky
Awww!
Some of my best mates came from work. Didn’t have any friends nearby after college so just started proposing hangouts. Many years later I’ve been best man in two of their weddings, we’ve followed each other to different companies, and my wife is good friends with their wives.
You do have to feel it out a little bit more than making a friend outside of work but it’s not a bad way to go
I could never. I’ve had plenty of cool co-workers, but work friends are not real friends. Ever. I keep my personal life as far away as possible from my work life. I don’t wanna know what they do outside the office and I sure as hell don’t want them to know what I do. I do my absolute best to pretend work doesn’t exist as soon as I leave for the day, interacting with co-workers beyond that makes that difficult.
This is entirely dependent on the kind of place you work. I work in healthcare and have made lifelong friends at every job I’ve had
this is especially true if you work for government or hold a clearance.
Sorry, we can’t be friends if we can’t talk and agree on politics. And we can’t talk personal politics since it may affect my job. So, we can’t be friends.
It’s interesting when you get a mix of your sort of person and the other “let’s go out for drinks” together in the same office. One workplace most of us would go out for drinks and karaoke, or hang out for board games, but there was always one guy who was like “nah thanks”. Still friends with one guy from that group. The one that never came around, no idea what he’s up to. He’s probably happy that way.
Fair consideration, but I felt very different about this in different settings. If almost everyone is an ex-pat, and you have large teams with colleagues that you don’t have to work with on a day-to-day basis, friendship seemed less undesirable. :)
Most of my after-university friends come from work. If you spend years interacting with the same people, you’ll become friends with some of them at least.
But it also depends a lot on the company/team vibe.
The sheer duality in these comments…ut I guess that’s how it goes. Stuff like this is very situational.
I’ve started working at a new place after a couple years of working under a very friendly atmosphere and am kinda nervous these days
Same. We’ve been friends for a year now and I’m going to their summerween party next month.
They’ve been excellent friends 10/10 would recommend.
I have workmates who desperately try and make friends with people at work, I need to socialise with different people outside work
