Seniors, here is a work related question for you?

Valerie - I don't advise - making friends with your co-workers.

They can be friendly associates - no more - no less.

I worked for the state for 16 years.

As I began to work my way up the ladder - it became evident

that I really did not have many friends on the way. They too

were looking to advance.

Once I became a supervisor - I knew - to treat staff equally as a

team and treat them with respect. Friendships require special

treatment and there is no place for special treatment in the workplace.

One of my staff has remained a good friend and was the my most

honest dependable worker.

It has been my supervisors who have befriended me and kept

in contact and I do appreciate them.

If it works - it is rare.

Because of the dog eat dog world we live in.

You and you alone have to look out for yourself.

Besides - how - if you are at work - do you have time to form friendships.

That works in school - not the workplace.

DeeJay.

I've moved around the country and so had a lot of jobs. I didn't care for most of the people I worked with and I certainly never liked the office politics. I've always been professional about all my jobs and treated everyone with respect but found it is best to keep your business to yourself at work. Once I finally got an education and went to work for myself, it was amazing how much more I enjoyed working in offices. I didn't have to tolerate small minded middle management and thoughtless coworkers. I had begun to wonder if it was me but I am always willing to be helpful, friendly and considerate. It isn't you, there are a whole host of people I would hate to be related to out there. Your best bet is to do what I did. I finally got my degree, worked a few jobs until I had honed my skills and become extremely proficient and then I went out on my own. People can try to mess with you when you come in to do work as contract labor but when management lets them know how much you get paid and that the work has to be done....they get over it and usually pretty quickly. I got a degree in business and majored in accounting. You do have to do grunt jobs to get experience but then you get to go out and earn the big $, not the company or your employer.

And to sum it up...when people talk about how long humans will dominate earth and how greed will probably do us in....it doesnt' seem so far fetched when you see how many thoughtless ignorant people are out there. Humans do terrible things to each other and think they are civilized. Stick to your guns and don't let them change who you are. Mind I had moved away from where I had lived most of my life and so I made a couple of good friends in college here and then as I worked in my profession, it was natural to line up with others that do the work I do and have made a few more good friends. Don't confuse the idea of being friendly with the idea of making friends that you can count on.

Yes. I worked as a teaching assistant to a kindergarten teacher for two years and we became good friends. I later became the principal's secretary at the same school. My friend retired about seven years before I did. She is one of my closest friends and has been for 37 years. We talk on the phone, e-mail each other, get together to play cards or board games, and vacation together -- with our husbands. Sometimes, a few of our kids and grandkids join us for a day or two of vacation.

The school administrators, faculty, and staff members were almost all wonderful people and I keep in touch with many of them. Several of us get together for lunch once a month. There were a few bad apples, as there are anywhere, but not many.

Sometimes in our working years we have a better relationship with fellow workers than we do with our own families. That is because we all have the workplace in common and we can communicate where if we talk to our spouses, etc., they don't really understand because they are not involved in the actual process.

I had my work friends and my outside of work friends. I never carried the 2 groups out of that pattern. When I retired from the job, I did not continue to hang with those fellow employees.

Most of the people I worked with were like brothers. We were an effective team helping each other. We had a union. A union was us. Each of us, acting as a group, for the betterment of the whole.

When I went into management, I found them to be back stabbers, and only interested in their own personal advancement. The welfare or the company or even their own long term security was secondary. Not nice people. Shallow and selfish. I was glad to get out, before I was stabbed in the back.

The gentlemen I worked with in the union are still friends 40+ years later.

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I have one good friend from the job I retired from and interesting that we both work at the same store now, she has worked two jobs for nearly as long as I've known her. There are people from my former job that I see at the store where I greet people, some come up and hug me each week. But most of the people were like what you described, dog-eat-dog especially the last decade of my career there, it got worse and I called it the "Survivor Decade", it seemed like they were trying to vote people off the island, and friendships were more like alliances to strengthen their position in the workplace.

Where I worked it was a dog eat dog place. I didn't go to my retirement party, cause I would have told them what I thought of them if I went. I knew some that were okay, but I haven't been in contact since I retired 10 years ago.

I never made any life-long friends at work. When I began working away from home I kept in touch with two people but, once they met someone and married the letters dried up and I haven't met or heard from them in years.

However, I still keep in touch with a life-long friend from school days. We try to meet up at least once a year even though we live hundreds of miles apart and exchange letters, birthday cards and occasionally have a chat on the telephone.

yes it can happen ,but not often.

A friendship I had when working in an outback roadhouse,circa 1981 ,continued when I moved back to town,and then till she returned as well.It survived a number of moves, and even when she went to live on a remote sheep station,we talked by phone and rare visits,sadly she passed away a couple years ago and i miss her still.

A friend like that is hard to find.

A couple of friends I have now also used to be work mates,going back to late 80s and late 90s.