can you make real friends in work places?

You right to some extent, once we are out of the circle, we are somehow abondoned. But you forgot the reasons, why one of us forget about persons who were once so close to us, i gess it coz of life issues, & being busy most of the time, between work & family stuff, especiallay when you get married, a you know when young, we have all the time to have fun & spend more time with firends, but once we are getting older & we start to think of one's future, everything started to dercrease, especially the number of friends, & one started to spend less & less time with friends, not cos we want to, but like i said life's rythm is too fast for anyone to kkep such relations, we all seek for good life, & friends becomes lesser & lesser without even feeling that.

On my first job, no I was not able to keep friends. Being with three companies already in two years time, it's hard to find and keep friends. But luckily, I have kept 6 friends overall from those work places. I just went out with 2 of them yesterday. And every month, I receive emails and sms from the other 4 once in a while. Just like the past weeks were we get to share some short and interesting activities we've had from our present job right now.

That is so true and it is funny how once someone quits a job you really do seem to loose all contact with them and find yourself wondering what happened to them. Did they move on to a better job? Did they leave the State or Country? You never know and maybe you will see them one day on television? So it easy sometimes to make friends sometimes but I have a problem with trust!! I try to stay away from most people in the outside world because you never know someone or you think you know them and after a certain amount of time you find out you thought wrong about them and not in a good way! Well anyway Have a Good Day.

HI, Of course you can always make good friends at your work place and it is depend on whether these friends can be trusted or not. Some workmates can only talk about work stuffs and apart form work stuffs,they are out from friendship. I used to have few good friends (my ex-colleagues) and we used to hang out together.But since I left the company, everyone is busy with their own life and we just kinda lost contact with each other.

Definitely, I believe that you can find and make real friends in the work place. And I think, the friendship could continue even after one or two have left and transferred to another work place. I think real friendship is not a matter of accessibility. It's a relationship that grows despite of distance. I left my previous employer for over a year now, and I still am constantly going out with my friends from my former office. In a real friendship, it is not an effort to keep in touch and constantly spend time with friends. Since you cherish each other's company, it feels natural and instinctive to find time for the friendship to grow.

Most of the time while you are still in the same company you become friends. If they resigned thats the only time when you realized who your true friends are. That has been my experienced for a long period that I've been working. Some of my officemates keep in touch with me even if I have not seen them over the years but some upon leaving forget us and doesn't bother to communicate with me. I myself understand this, because there are so many factors why communication between you and your friends stopped communicating. Example is: if they are too busy with there job, or either they have another group wherein they enjoy more the company, there's no way of communicating with them.

Absolutly. I have 2 friends that I met through work at a job 7 years ago and they are still very close friends. They have both since moved out of state but we call/email often and I have stayed in good contact with them. I don't think work or any place can or can't be the right place to meet someone. I think it's about the people you encounter and end up having a bond with, if it happens to be at work then it's no different than school. or through a friend of a friend etc.

I am also experiencing the same situation. People tend to neglect and forget me after I resign. And we never keep in touch at all. Except I did it with my high school and college friends, we keep in touch in FaceBook.

Hi Jimmy, I have been a Trainer and Programmer all my career of 16 years. During this I have interacted with many people at workplace and based on my experiences I would say Yes and No to your question - Yes, because they all would co-operate with you when you are working on the same subject/Application. And No because when thing start getting friendlier you realize that they are your competitors and would go to any extent to outway you. But still, I have 4 people from my work place who have been great friends and I love them all. Yes, we have been friends in real terms of the word. So it is more about your finding the right people and the right environment for making friends. This happens everywhere! Doesnt it? Cheers, theSids.

Yea why not. We can make good friend at anywhere in this worls. And the only condition is that you should have similar feeling. I mean the feeling of friendship. Workplace is a place where you spend alot of your time, so you should make friends these so that you don't get bored of your work. And it also helps you to enjoy your work time. Happy mylotting.

I've worked in a lot of places and with a lot of people, but I ended up with only one real friend. It just happened that I had a lot of common interests with her, and with her husband as well, so we remained close even after we stopped working together. But other than that, I got along well with many people, we had fun working together, but there was nothing deeper, in the end, the only common topic of discussion was the job itself, so they vanished from my life when I switched to another workplace.

Definitely! I am friends with my co-workers and I am sure that they are for real. I can tell them my problems and they do tell me theirs.

I made friends easily, be it the workplace, school, or in some occassion. I found a bestrfriend too in my workplace, but the ones that that are totally unforgettable are my high school friends and college pals. They are real, I love their company much!

yes its too hard to make in a work place because money is involve unlike in school just a grade is involve.