That feeling when you realize your work friend isn’t actually your friend, and you have no connection with anyone you work with anymore.

Yeah. There are two people I get along with at work, and that’s it. Certainly not friends.

friends aren't food

Got a talking to once from HR for only coming to the office one day a week (the minimum required). Was told “we want to foster friendships and camaraderie”.

I asked “are friendships something that can only be created in the office?”

HR officer struggled to answer and merely responded with a link to the RTO policy, and urged me to review it when I had time.

I gave them an emoji thumbs up react and went back to work.

that certainly sucks, but it can be possible. I have felt this way before in which I think the people that I am working with are on the friend level just to find out that they were not indeed.

Not all work places are like that tho, chin up my g. Good people find ways of connecting to other good people.

I’ve made some very close friends at work, but that wasn’t the goal, it just happened. It wasn’t via the culture of the company either, quite the contrary actually. We just had very similar interests and loved beer.

@fiftyhz Made a good life friend via work that way too. Office “pizza party” was happening simultaneously with an NFL playoff game.

At one point he notices me in my office stealthily packing a bag and goes “you sneaking out for the game?”

“Yeah”

“Where you watching it?”

“Bar down the street, wanna come with? Just don’t ask me to talk about work stuff”

“Wanna talk about how badly the Packers are gonna blow it in the conference game instead?”

We’ve been friends and rivals ever since. Go figure, the artificially-driven in office friendship moment worked, we just took it out of the office and bonded over football. 🤣

Let's only call them work mates

@ComputerToucher I love this so much.