Meirl
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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If I can’t make at least 2 work-friends at work, I ain’t going to last at that job. I don’t want to spend 8-9 hours doing something I really don’t want to with people I don’t get along with.
I worked at a bank for seven years, and as a very poor person it was socially awkward in a lot of ways. They would start gift pools to buy the boss a present, and just no. Potlucks and etc I would honestly just have preferred to opt out of but I’d get people mad I didn’t bring anything AND people mad I wasn’t eating anything.
Just like, it was a great team and all but I just wanted to punch in and punch out. When I was clocked out I wouldn’t answer a phone call from God himself.
Idk man, if I couldn’t be friends with my coworkers, I don’t wanna work there. I’m there 8hr a day; I wanna be able to goof with anyone. We have 40 employees, and I’ve gotten dinner with 11 of them, we play d&d bimonthly, shoot the breeze in the lunch room, follow each other on Instagram and share memes. It’s genuinely fantastic
We once had a very good, funny and nice co-worker (millwright). Fucked us all over when he got a promotion to be a supervisor. +10 workers resigned in less than a 6 months for dude being a dick.
Its fine to be friendly with your coworkers just dont put all your trust
Michael scott would like to have a word with you
It’s worse than that. The expectation is that I’m supposed to be friends with the clients as well. Allow them to friend me on social media, go to events they go to, etc. Just no. While I do like a lot of them, they’re not my friends and I can never forget that if anything at work went sour, they’d throw me under the bus in a heartbeat.
Redditors be social challenge: level impossible.
At least she said “not everyone”
I think it depends on how you define ‘friend’. I think getting along well with your coworkers, is a great thing. They are the ones you spend most of your time with, besides your family. Sure, maybe when you just sit in your own little office and dont really interact with anyone, it doesnt really matter, but thats just not how it works in most cases. It also helps the work environment tremendously.
However, from the perspective of someone that has several people I’m responsible for, I hope they get along and try my best to support it, but of course I cant have them just goof around and talk all day, which happens plenty as is with some of them. I still need to make sure they get their work done.
I just think its a different kind of relationship than “friendship”, but can still be really nice, give you both a sense of responsibility as well as security. Which, in the best case, should be good both for the productivity, as well as the peoples mental and physical health.
That’s depressing, because these are literally the only people I see regularly.
work in your company, not your coworker !
Always friendly, never friends.
That’s a great workplace motto.
Bro thought this is linkedin
Not wrong
People take serious offence to this from my experience. They can’t wrap their heads around it.
It’s just a job to me.
So you can’t be friends with the people you work with the majority of the time? No wonder there’s a loneliness epidemic…
Being a friend is not at all necessary at work. The capacity to be friendly is. Inadequate social skills are bad for the work place and society. There is a reason loneliness is an epidemic right now.
Don’t put walls where a doorway will do. I’m still friends with some of the people i have worked with long ago, even before i was an adult. I never would be anything but naturally friendly to anyone i meet. If i see a new face i smile. i do my work and get paid like i expect but that doesn’t mean i cannot intermingle with coworkers.
Define friendship first.
“Go home.”
But I already am home.
*No one
Its called a workplace for a reason. Its a place to do work. I’d be amicable at least to be able to work with coworkers but I don’t need to be friends with them
Y’all are seeing “not everyone” and reading it as “no one”. It’s okay to have friends at work, but not everyone needs to be your work friend. It’s okay to not like some of the people you work with
I feel like a lot of comments are interpreting this image as: “don’t have friends, just do your work” when I see it as: “you don’t need to be friends with anyone at work if you don’t want to. If you do great but it should be your choice”
I also think having at least a close acquaintance would make the workplace better but I know some people want to treat work as seperate from their personal lives and that’s fine. I’m kinda the same.
Not everyone at your workplace isnt your friend, either. Chill the fuck out.
I have friends
I go to work to make money.
I always say dont make friends at work. Just work laugh at jokes and get along at work but keep it at work. Go home
yep. just got laid off by people i considered friends