cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/48201538
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/friendship-2
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Later it turns out to be a gay bar, and things go better than expected.
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/48201538
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/friendship-2
Alt text
Later it turns out to be a gay bar, and things go better than expected.
Bonus panel
![Friendship [SMBC]](https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/6fa51241-fd27-4a8e-9c10-3da40e14b20e.png){kind=link}
Nah that’s just work friends. Those aren’t real friends. You will lose them when you change jobs.
Go to the same place every day. Become a part of the scenery. Eventually people will approach you because you are familiar. Invite them to take a seat. Friends.
Work friends become real friends once you turn the work-friend group into an organizing committee. I still have dozens of friends from my previous job, because we were organizing together
Man, I just remembered to text the folks who went out for beers after work when I found a new job, and we’re still friends and have all mostly quit drinking.
Oh man, I have many life-long friends from previous jobs. Whether this happens to you totally depends on where you work and the culture there, as well as how open you are and how often you reach out to people to organize stuff
Nah, I have made real friends at work. If I leave my current job, I will absolutely keep in touch with my coworker. We are fully remote, but I will make him game with me if we stop working together. He’s too chill for me to lose touch with.
Other people at work I considered friends I did eventually lose touch with, but I went to one of their weddings, and had a great time caught up with a lot of my old coworkers.
I agree, coworkers aren’t always friends, but you spend a good chunk of your life there. If you don’t make friends with some of them, you’re losing out and making things more difficult for yourself.
Nobody is expected to make work friends, but if you don’t t least have one or two, you’ll be more miserable at work.
I made lots of permanent friends at one of my jobs, but I didn’t have a long commute or anything, we live 20 minutes apart only because they had a commute