Do you have friends from the job you work at?

[Kirby]

Yeah, but we don't hangout outside of work.

 

[Oyeve]

Not any more. I learned a long time ago that work friends will stab you in the back if it can advance their career.

 

[AreaCode707]

Not any more. I learned a long time ago that work friends will stab you in the back if it can advance their career.

It can work the other way around too. I took a lot of risks at work to help my work friend advance to where he really deserved to be based on his abilities and contributions. The company kind of screwed him when he started out and he needed a support to haul himself upwards.

 

[zinfamous]

most of us hang out pretty regularly.

just about everyone in the lab is from a different country, almost all of them postdocs. With such temporary employment in a temporary living situation, your co-workers and colleagues tend to become one of your close group of friends.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

what about jobs you don't work at?

anyways, its pretty hard not to develop relationships with people after spending 8hrs a day with them. unless of course you are an unlikeable loser.

also, there is a difference between friends and work friends, but i dont think you have the experience to understand either work or friend concepts so ill stop here.