Do you consider your co-workers friends and family?

[drsketch]

No, though I work well with most of them I keep it business and rarely go out with them.

 

[Bikini Mod]

that's cuz you fired them all.


teehee!

You have Ms HeatherRae confused with that bikini-biatch.

And no, I never socialized w/my co-workers, never considered socializing w/the females and would NEVER consider dating a male I worked with. Once I got to management I wouldn't socialize w/them because I never knew when the time would come that I would have to let them go.

But for the author of the thread it seems like a totally different situation. I never had sitch like that.

 

[heatherrae]

that's cuz you fired them all.


teehee!

HAHAHAHAHA! that last dude got canned on Friday the 13th. I bet that will stick with him a while...lol.

 

[UA_Iron]

Generally, the less they know about me the better.

I have a good facade it seems.

 

[Razorguns]

Meaning going out with them drinking on the weekends, call them randomly, sporting events, bar hopping etc....


Or do you completely isolate them out once you clock out?



Reason I ask this is because I use to keep my work and outside life seperate, but now I spend so much time at work, I am basically forced to be best friends with coworkers. All I do all day is rip on people at my work and vice versa because everyone knows everyone like good friends. Can this turn into a bad thing?

If they're over 30. isolate.

Most of them just wanna go home, spend time with family, kids, bbq, etc. And go to work mainly for paychecks. They have little fire and desire left in them, so now they just want to work happily, have good job security, grow old and die. And ready to invoke high school drama in a heartbeat to protect this.

I have little in common with these (usually fat) people.

r

 

[Bikini Mod]

If they're over 30. isolate.

Most of them just wanna go home, spend time with family, kids, bbq, etc. And go to work mainly for paychecks. They have little fire and desire left in them, so now they just want to work happily, have good job security, grow old and die. And ready to invoke high school drama in a heartbeat to protect this.

I have little in common with these (usually fat) people.

r

You are talkin bout the average pencil pusher. Some of choose not to socialize for other reasons.

We have been invited many-a-time to socialize with the CEO and CFO of the company that we currently have our largest, longest contract with. Nadda...

They don't ride so how much fun could they possibly be?!

The Old Grump and I regularly invite near total strangers to our home, buy drinks, dinner, etc IF we enjoy their company. That's just how we roll. But in the work-world we only socialize with our clients and even then, it is only if we truly enjoy their company. For the most part, we do.

 

[cindylou]

I dont go socializing with them, but half are family, or I consider them like family.


my sis one the other hand, goes for drinks with her coworkers all the time.....I dont have the type of job that reqires so much...schmoozing at happy hour i guess

she also works with alot of women her own age (25-35) with no kids.

 

[Razorguns]

Ask yourself this:

Of all the co-workers in your past 2-5 jobs or whatever --- how many do you speak and hang out with regularly? (compare that to people you meet in clubs and parties).

If your answer is 1 or 2 -- I rest my case.

r

 

[jnevin]

My line of work is reasonably close knit. Everyone seems to know everyone, and you're always running in to people when you go out. Sometimes you end up working with these people a little way down the road. Now that I have a baby to go home to I don't really do much. But before that I'd always golf, go out with, got to bbq's with friends from work.