Best friends or work mates?

Kompany Car said:
Depends...

If they are ex work colleagues who have become friends then thats fine. Some close friends are people who I worked with 20 years ago, but kept in touch.

If you are in any position of seniority in a business, having those who you work with currently as friends is dangerous. Not only does it lead to people potentially calling out promotions as nepotism, but also can make it exceptionally difficult when the business is underperforming and you need to make difficult decisions.

Bottom line is, its lonely at the top, so make your friends elsewhere.

As for really close friends who would stand by you at all costs regardless, those are like hens teeth, I have a couple of mates who Ive know for 40 plus years who I know would as I would for them.
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Absolutely make them elsewhere.

Especially at Christmas time where there’s nothing worse at an end of year works do when someone from the top of the company decides to outstay their welcome beyond the first half hour.

You get paid enough, have your one drink then jog on off to the golf club to join your real friends, and leave everyone else to let their hair down, gossip like fuck, and get very messy!
 
I had lots of good mates at school, a few at football teams I played for, and through work.

I realised early in life that people come and go very easily. Since then have always regarded people as acquaintances... work, pub, neighbours, etc.

The only people I class as 'friends' are Mrs Lavinda, our kids, and the dog. People I know I can trust with my life.

It's never done me any harm.
 
Lavinda Past said:
I had lots of good mates at school, a few at football teams I played for, and through work.

I realised early in life that people come and go very easily. Since then have always regarded people as acquaintances... work, pub, neighbours, etc.

The only people I class as 'friends' are Mrs Lavinda, our kids, and the dog. People I know I can trust with my life.

It's never done me any harm.
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same. Although the dog has been side eyeing me a lot recently.
 
Magicpole said:
How can someone you know from work, ever be considered above your best friend? My best friend is a brother to me. And me to him. He's a big Rangers supporting twat, but I love him. I have made lifelong friends from work. Not many, but enough, but they would never come before my best mate.

Plus, with his team not been too clever this last 15 years, I feel duty bound to be there with and for him. Offering support and above all, compassion in these difficult times.

I know he appreciates it and texts like,

"Go fuck yourself". "Do one." I'm blocking your number for a week, you prick." Are his way of saying thank you, my best pal. I knew i could depend on you. Clear as day.

(All texts mentioned are real)
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Pics?
 
Work colleagues are great until you move jobs. Quickly realise it's the only thing you had in common. Spent more time working with these than I seen my own family over Christmas, new year, summer holidays. The answer was to change profession
 
I’m not close with my colleagues. Some of my proper mates I’ve known since we were about three or four years old at Nursery, you can’t replicate that. Even the mates I’ve known since secondary school, colleagues can never come close to that.

There are things me and my mates could talk about that would never be talked about at work, so people at many workplaces don’t really know their colleagues that well.
 
No such thing as best friends and certainly no such thing as "work mates".

Everyone goes to work for the same thing, to keep a roof over your head and put food on the table anything on top of that is a bonus, I never get into things with people at work, I'll talk to them about work related stuff or small talk and that's about it.

Best friends, never heard of them. People are two faced cunts and so called best friends would stab you in the back in the heartbeat.

Stick to yourself and your own family (if you like them) that's what's most important. Fuck everyone else.
 
I've worked at a local family business for 20 years with the same two lads and we have absolutely nothing in common lifestyle wise,
While I'm married,kids,drinks,smokes,sport mad etc, just a normal bloke,these two are the total opposite and for me I find it hard to have a conversation with them.
Nothing wrong with being a non drink,non smoker,who doesn't like any sport,never kissed a woman virgin but it's not for me.
Now my two closest friends have been the best of mates since nursery/ primary school, we're now in our mid forties and still do everything together,
Although one supports the rags and the other supports Liverpool so I've done a lot of piss taking the last few years.
Payback from the 90s/2000s.
 
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