No. Let me experience some small portions of my life without networking and hustle, thanks.
You Shouldn't Make Friends at Work
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#12It'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.
Weird, I haven't worked there in 5 years and still get together with different folks once every few months to once a week. Great way to find a new job too!
One should not forget that most psychologists and psychiatrists are borderline nut jobs. OK that's just personal experience, but ask anyone who knows these people... crazy drama follows them everywhere. Just sayin'.
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#13It'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.
You don't build real friendships at work, yes. But you can definitely meet people at work that you end up building a real friendship with outside of work.
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#14What a sad way to live. The majority of my close friendships revolve around working on or toward things together. It gives a rich context and purpose to them.
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#15I 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.
Really a shame that people like you and I are wasting time enjoying life when we could be networking, I guess.
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#16Down 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”.
Or you go take that opportunity and bring the friend with you.
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#17Many people will say that they made friends are work. However, the workplace is a competitive environment and those "friendships" get a reality check when it's time to chase that promotion/raise/new position or when things go South.
all "friendships" get a reality check quite often, at work or not..
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#18You can make friends at work but to keep them make sure you interact with them outside of a work context.
If they are just someone you talk to at your desk or even go to lunch or drinks after work then if either of you changes job that context is removed.
Meet up with them on weekends or evenings if you want to keep them.
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#19It'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.
It's tough to grade, but I agree.
Of all of the relationships I've built at work, maybe three qualified as true friends.
The rest: opportunists, snakes, or at best, fair-weather friends.
Nowadays... I "show up" (get online), do my work, leave.
I prefer it this way. Work has gross incentives for developing friendships.
Another version of not shitting where I eat
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