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Another thing about work friends is you can never quite be as close to them as you are with your friends from school or when you were kids

Even if they are super cool and you share a lot in common there are no bonds like the ones you formed when you were just stupid kids trying to figure shit out and turning into who you would become.

Those are more like brothers than friends.
 
toasty said:
Another thing about work friends is you can never quite be as close to them as you are with your friends from school or when you were kids

Even if they are super cool and you share a lot in common there are no bonds like the ones you formed when you were just stupid kids trying to figure shit out and turning into who you would become.

Those are more like brothers than friends.
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Dude, well frigging said. It's a funny camouflage we wear with these work people that just doesn't hit the same.
 
Batjester said:
Have? No.

Had? Yes.

Job I have now is WFH so there isn't a ton of interaction except once a month when we are required to be in office. Get along ok with everyone, just nobody I would call a friend.

Last job, I had quite a few including one I was in his wedding. Still keep in touch with a few of them, but I'm mostly a shut-in loser.
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Ugh shut in loser checking in lol
 
toasty said:
Another thing about work friends is you can never quite be as close to them as you are with your friends from school or when you were kids

Even if they are super cool and you share a lot in common there are no bonds like the ones you formed when you were just stupid kids trying to figure shit out and turning into who you would become.

Those are more like brothers than friends.
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Growing pains and working pains hit different
 
We all work from home, and really only interactive through slack/teams and zoom meetings. They seem decent enough, but not really lowbrow swine like myself. Except this gal from Detroit. She has the same energy, and we will get a drink when we go to corporate every so often.

Had some pretty good work friends when I was in a trade though.
 
Red Beard said:
Dude, well frigging said. It's a funny camouflage we wear with these work people that just doesn't hit the same.
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Real people who become real friends see through the camouflage. It's why they become friends. I don't use the word friend lightly btw. It always makes me cringe when I hear "they got married with their 120 closest friends attending the ceremony". What?!?!

I have 5 friends. I know they would bail me out at 4am. I know they'd do anything for me. I know I can trust them with my life.

I hadn't seen my friend Frédéric for almost 10 year when we got a chance to meet in Paris. We're having an amazing time and then he says: "All these years passed, but it feels like you just went to the restroom, came back and we continued our conversation."
 
Yeah. I work from home but will go into the office to work for the day and grab some beers after work. Not often, but a few times a year.
 
Only talk to two people at work. One was my supervisor from a prior department whose into the same stuff as me (MMA, horror movies, wrasslin etc) and a girl who lives in another state but her husband actually works with my cousin from time to time. They do storm cleanup. We were hired at the same time and will bounce work stuff off each other help. And no ,I'd never cross that line because I'm married and her husband looks like Bam Bam Bigelow and would eat me.
 
No work friends. I compartmentalize too much. Can't mix business with any other facet of life.
 
I’m not really friends with any of the other professors but I’m hangout with my lab researchers
 
Yes, I made some good friends at work. Some even in competing roles. Our corporate culture is a bit less cutthroat so it was not a problem.
 
koquerelle said:
Real people who become real friends see through the camouflage. It's why they become friends. I don't use the word friend lightly btw. It always makes me cringe when I hear "they got married with their 120 closest friends attending the ceremony". What?!?!

I have 5 friends. I know they would bail me out at 4am. I know they'd do anything for me. I know I can trust them with my life.

I hadn't seen my friend Frédéric for almost 10 year when we got a chance to meet in Paris. We're having an amazing time and then he says: "All these years passed, but it feels like you just went to the restroom, came back and we continued our conversation."
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Growing up u always heard that Eskimos had like 40 different words for snow based on its characteristics. We should add a bunch of new words for friends. I fucking cringe when someone says. I have hundreds of Facebook “friends”. Or they’re my online friend but I’ve never met them

These are not friends. I’m not sure what they are but unless they’ve been with you at your best moments and carried u thru r worst they haven’t earned the title friend

@Red Beard While you understand the sentiment I'm going for, CAmouflage is the wrong word to use, its not that I'm hiding or holding something back from these people, its that I'm an entirely different person as a full grown confident adult than I was as a gawky pre-teen, and none of my work friends will ever see that evolution live and daily like my longest friends, so none of them will ever understand me the way those that were there do.

Hope that makes sense. I almost had to use the term "my journey" to explain this but I cringe when people use that term because it feels like they are trying to make themselves sound super deep and their life ultra meaningful when they really are just ordinary knobs like me.
 
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to all you work from homers, that sounds amazingly awesome! Now that I'm past my prime and on the back 9 or back 6 or green on the 18th or wherever the fuck I am on "MY JOURNEY"

But in my 20's it would've ruined my life. Some of my most cherished memories are from sneaking out for a 2 beer "lunchers" with my friends, hanging out in someone's office after hours just shooting the shit with random co-workers, inter-office flirting and rumours of people fishing off the company pier, the after work softball games and the drinking games we played in the bar after getting our asses kicked again.

Same thing for those kids that had to zoom school for 2 years.. Cutting classes to get doughnuts, cheating in gym class to win a useless game of crab soccer, after school floor hockey, or fucking around on the ride home from school was my social life. I can't imagine how shittier my experience would've been staring at a screen and then staring at a different scree.

So yeah, middle age married guy with a kid you gotta run around town, love that work from home shit. 24 and single and just moved to a new town, fuckety fuckers fuckwad NOOOOOOOOO!
 
toasty said:
Growing up u always heard that Eskimos had like 40 different words for snow based on its characteristics. We should add a bunch of new words for friends. I fucking cringe when someone says. I have hundreds of Facebook “friends”. Or they’re my online friend but I’ve never met them

These are not friends. I’m not sure what they are but unless they’ve been with you at your best moments and carried u thru r worst they haven’t earned the title friend

@Red Beard While you understand the sentiment I'm going for, CAmouflage is the wrong word to use, its not that I'm hiding or holding something back from these people, its that I'm an entirely different person as a full grown confident adult than I was as a gawky pre-teen, and none of my work friends will ever see that evolution live and daily like my longest friends, so none of them will ever understand me the way those that were there do. Hope that makes sense. I almost had to use the term "my journey" to explain this but I cringe when people use that term because it feels like they are trying to make themselves sound super deep and their life ultra meaningful when they really are just ordinary knobs like me.
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Your work friends will also never see the journey you took to become Mayberry newcomer of the year so there's that too.
 
toasty said:
Growing up u always heard that Eskimos had like 40 different words for snow based on its characteristics. We should add a bunch of new words for friends. I fucking cringe when someone says. I have hundreds of Facebook “friends”. Or they’re my online friend but I’ve never met them

These are not friends. I’m not sure what they are but unless they’ve been with you at your best moments and carried u thru r worst they haven’t earned the title friend

@Red Beard While you understand the sentiment I'm going for, CAmouflage is the wrong word to use, its not that I'm hiding or holding something back from these people, its that I'm an entirely different person as a full grown confident adult than I was as a gawky pre-teen, and none of my work friends will ever see that evolution live and daily like my longest friends, so none of them will ever understand me the way those that were there do.

Hope that makes sense. I almost had to use the term "my journey" to explain this but I cringe when people use that term because it feels like they are trying to make themselves sound super deep and their life ultra meaningful when they really are just ordinary knobs like me.
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The ancient Greeks had 7 words for love......

I think it would be a good idea to have the same for friend.........
 
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