Do you have best friend in your workplace?
By yspmyl
@yspmyl (3435)
Malaysia
August 25, 2010 6:55pm CST
Do you consider your colleague as your best friend? Do you have best friend in your workplace that you can share your up and down? OR your have a group of friends that very close with you in your office. I have a colleague that very close to me that I consider a best friend of mine. We will share our food, and when ever there is something, we will discuss together and share it between 2 of us....it is nice to have someone to share at the workplace when you are stress and having pressure with the work load.
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9 responses
@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
13 Sep 10
Personally where I am working right now there is only one person who I have ever gotten close enough to know or do anything with outside of work. Since most of the people I work with have a lot of other ideas and thoughts I would not care to deal with most of them are just considered acquaintances as well. But back in the day I did date someone for a while I met at work and things we OK, and then there were others I always hung around with but overall most of the time it is Best to leave work be at work, and friends elsewhere as most of the time I want to go home and relax and just leave work behind.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
13 Sep 10
Yeah, sometime we do need to leave everything about work at work and never bring it back home. But, if you were to have best friends at work, it will make the workplace better with more friend instead of to stress up yourself and being serious all the time at work. This not only not good for health and also not good for the working environment. I would prefer if the workplace is full of laugher instead of full of seriousness. Of course when we need to be serious, we still have to be serious at some time. People will like to go to work if the work place is nice and harmony. That is an ideal working environment.
@liweiwei0909 (403)
• China
27 Aug 10
I have several good friends in my workplace, really very good. We shared with our good or ban mood, our views about the work, even the tired of the job...
@LingXX0103 (151)
• China
26 Aug 10
I never consider that.
I can keep good relationship with my colleague,but I have no close friends in my workplace.
Sometimes competition is a big problem between us.
I think that if you are at same level,you have big chance to make friends,otherwise...
@saranshnaik (193)
• India
26 Aug 10
I am very fortunate that most of my colleague in the office are my college friends..!!so i have best friends in my workplace...!!!
@michaelxy (33)
• China
26 Aug 10
Yes.My manager is best friend in our team.we talk about work and also personal life,as love.Haw-haw,i feel it is very good.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
26 Aug 10
hi yspmyl yes I did but she was complaining of a backache for weeks and I finally insisted she go to her doctor. too late, she had a huge tumor in her lung the biopsy was cancer.she only lived two months'longer. I co uld hear her call hey hatley come here , lookie this a nd yet she was not there. we were close and all the staff loved her, she was outspoken and forthright and so warmhearted she would mother us all. I was privileged
to have been her friend for a few years at least.
to have been her friend for a few years at least.@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 10
Hi Hatley,
Very sorry to heard about your friend's story, she must have suffered a lot with the diseases. Real life always are not the same like in the movie, bad guys will die first before the good guys, but in real life, many good people who are really nice have very short life when compare to those really bad people...
. It is nice to have a good friend or nice people around us and they always bring some happiness to us.
. It is nice to have a good friend or nice people around us and they always bring some happiness to us.
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
26 Aug 10
No, I don't consider my colleague as my best friend. I am friendly with my co-workers, but we aren't really 'friends.' We don't really communicate much when we're outside of work and if we do, we mostly talk about work because that's the only thing we have in common.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
26 Aug 10
I think if you do no really communicate with you colleague, that will make your work more difficult and is hard to get the job done. For me, it will be very stressful if we just being so serious during work. It will be easy to have time pass if we can have some fun or joke with our colleague during work. This will help to release the tension of work.
@bokal2703 (802)
• Philippines
26 Aug 10
My best friend is not from my work place, however, I have a set of close friends in the office to whom I am very comfortable to talk to with what I feel. I also believe that having such friends can make a day at work something to look forward to and make it less stressful on days when I am pressured about work or even at some personal problems.
