You Shouldn't Make Friends at Work

It's hard to spend 8h/day for most of your adult life in a given environment and pretend you're not a social creature at the same time.

I think a lot of people only had acquaintances and confuse that with friendship. Building real friendships at work is rare.

Hard disagree.

I spent a very significant amount of my waking time working. This is one of the best opportunities to make friends, and IMHO it's also nicer to work with friends than with non-friends.

Most of the friends I made as an adult came from a work related setting.

Down the line, I believe it is important to be sociable and a “nice guy” at work, but I also believe that making friends in the workplace is very dangerous.

It’s a work place, you never know what can happen, you could get fired, or hesitate to jump on a good opportunity outside of the company because you are emotionally attached to “friends”.

I agree that making friends at work has made zero difference to my job satisfaction.

Made a hell of a lot of difference on my life satisfaction, though.