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  1. BRID

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    How friendly should you be with people at work?

    Whats everyones thoughts on their "work life" (for those of you with jobs of course) and how they get on with your work mates and things?

    Personally, i try and get on well with my colleagues, have a bit of a crack going, go down the pub with everyone on a friday afternoon etc etc - but i dont want to become "friends" with them to the point where i get involved in after work stuff, and then become part of the whole social circle and things..

    My lass is the exact opposite... she really loves being part of a group, and her new best friends since we moved here are her work friends...

    Dunno if im an unsociable mong, but i like to have friends who have nothing to do with what i do in life - lets me have a private life and a professional one...

    Anyone else feel this way, or am i a freak :D
    BRID, Apr 27, 2004
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    Play football, drink midweek and have a laugh in work. Don't spend weekends with them and have never talked about clubbing with colleagues.

    Yer still a freak. :lol:
    JockB, Apr 27, 2004
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    I get on with a few and dont with others, most of the people I work with have similar interests to myself.
    Jimmy, Apr 27, 2004
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    i cant stand half of the people who i work with theyre all tossers and fukin tarts who need to take theyre make up off with a spade :D


    but yeh there are 1 or 2 of us who tend to get a long in a little group :)
    Sasha, Apr 27, 2004
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    I get on really really well with everyone i work with at the bar and count some people as some of my closest friends.....bar work is different to office work though isnt it....it's generally more sociable.

    when i work in the office in the summer im good friends with everyone there but wouldnt see them outside of work etc.....u dont always want ppl at work to know what u get up to outside of the office!!
    Snack, Apr 27, 2004
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    hmmm...i dont like to get involved with them (when i worked last year). i did start seeing the secretary, which was a bit of a bad idea...
    Mr. Revel, Apr 27, 2004
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    i work in an office environment and we have a proper laugh.
    my whole team gets on.
    even my manager is like one of the lads.
    no point workin in an environment where theres conflict between people. u just dont need it!
    ;)
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    feck awf ;)

    I can see sense with that idea - dunno if you choose deliberately that you dont want to do weekend stuff with them, but i agree with that none the less - I think of work as a means to an end, alot of people make it part of their life, or become part of little groups and things.

    Couldnt hack that myself :down:
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    Being friends with people at work surely makes the day pass quicker though...u at least have people to talk to and stuff?
    Snack, Apr 27, 2004
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    Some place's just attract them
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  12. BRID

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    Absolutely - i just mean outside of work, when it hits 5pm or the weekend, are work friends something you should keep to certain times etc.etc......
    BRID, Apr 27, 2004
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    I do ... I remember being raging with the burd for talking about shindig: and clubs and stuff in front of my work mates. :lol:
    JockB, Apr 27, 2004
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    It is completely different on the bar i suppose....

    at work in the office in the summer my dad is one of the managers.....as far as my co-workers are concerned, im an :angel2: !!
    Snack, Apr 27, 2004
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    i wud say i'm freinds with 2 of my 18 work colleagues....the rest are aquaintances! :)
    Ruth, Apr 27, 2004
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    the blokes with i work are really sound, and we have a laugh all the time. go out drinking with them every so often on work do's. but i still prefer to keep my friends and social side totally sepertate from them
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    Depends how fit they!
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    Is 1 of them Jimmy
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  19. Ruth

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    sorry 3 including jimmy.....i wud count 2 ppl in my team as being friends of mine!! :D
    Ruth, Apr 27, 2004
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    We are like a very closely-knit family here, being a small company and having worked together for years we're all very good friends. But then I have a totally different group of friends who I go clubbing with....it's strange I've known the people I work with longer but I consider my clubbing mates my propper mates as we have more in common.
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    i put alot of effort into actively avoiding work social events. i would just rather spend time with the wifey and my own mates.
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