Some become friends

Sometimes they become friends.

I’ve been friends with coworkers

They are your team mates, who can and often do become almost family.

They can be your friends though. After all, why not?

True!!

They are colleagues

True

They are your colleagues.

I made friends with a guy who started at the same time as me at a solicitors' practice. The rest of the people there were unlikeable.

Only one I would call a friend

My friends, for the most part, I have met through work.

SJD x

Well...🤔🤔🤔...we used to have a LOT of fun outside of work. (Some of us!). We played Bar Golf once or twice, and ONE of the bars used to have contest entries for free Italian catering for your company or work place, and we won that one THREE times...

However, there WERE one or two who were highly competitive back-stabbing sons of beeyatches.

Ny friends aren't my friends.

Nope. Some of my most cherished friends are co-workers .

I’m retired but still have a friend who was a co-worker both while working at the university and at Walmart after I retired from there.

Depends on the people. I’d consider several of them friends.

Meh...mine happen to be all dudes. They've been to my house, at one time. Eaten my food an drank my booze....they think I'm funny.

Friends....of mine.

Solidly agree.

That hasn’t been my experience. I’ve made some very good friends through work, relationships lasting years and beyond our time at the job.

I distanced myself from my team. Had friends in other teams within the organisation.

Usually, but one shouldn't be a jerk about it.
And people do make friends at work.

They can become friends, but yeah, otherwise, not.

I'd rather not.

No they are not.. it’s better to keep it professional and kind

Specially when one of them is your ex husband

For the most part. There's exceptions

I sort of agree

I don't agree, no. Need to be selective but most people meet their friends and lovers at work.

I have had some coworkers over the years that have become very dear friends and a lover, but there are also some that I would not trust and would care less if I ever saw them again.

I have friends who became friends from having been co-workers. They’ve been in my life from 26-47 years.

It all depends on the situation. Co-workers can be friends, acquaintances, or even outright enemies.

Particularly mine.

Wrong

Agree. We are friendly but not real friends. But I do believe that you can become friends after you’re no longer working together.

I don't go to work to make friends... I go to work to do my job.

Completely agree - and the less you speak with them, the better. Keep it light, nothing personal. This "family" BS is just that. It's something to get you brainwashed into working more for the higher ups.

They shouldn't be, but it's hard when they're most of the people you know.

Depends on the coworker

nope

A few co-workers can be friends...

But no, most would throw you under the bus if it meant helping themselves.

That’s the way it used to be for a supervisor. The crew should always be friends that way they get along and work together but when there is tension the supervisor must step in and eliminate that tension immediately to prevent escalation by whatever means necessary. Verbal warning first and make them talk it out face to face and work it out like grown men or women. Then write ups if necessary. The supervisor should never be friends with his crew because they cannot show favoritism and must maintain discipline and respect. That’s the way it should be but nowadays it’s a whole different story. All power has been taken away from supervisors now therefore discipline is out the window. All corporate hr is worried about now is someone getting offended. The company will no longer stand behind their supervisors oh well if they offend the supervisors. All the supervisors are now is the Ginny pig for all discipline. Something happens no matter whose fault the supervisors are disciplined. So now all the supervisors have are their coworkers to back them up. It’s bull $hit! And they wonder why so much turnover and now I have to come in behind an inexperienced supervisor with a huge mess to fix every freaking morning. But all they do is praise them. My boss agrees but his hands are also tied.

Diss a gree

...and neither are your next door neighbors nor should they be.

That's my default mode. I don't have a job to make friends. Getting too chummy can backfire.

No

boss isnt either