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Being friends with colleagues can lead to less enjoyable work situations, not to mention less focused work. Being friendly should suffice, not all of us want t
by soft_dev_person 10y ago
Being friends with colleagues can lead to less enjoyable work situations, not to mention less focused work.
Being friendly should suffice, not all of us want to get too personal with the same people we might need to have professional arguments with.
We're all different.
- hvidgaard 10y agoI'll share a bit of wisdom my son shared when he was 4 or 5. In kindergarden they talked about what a friend is, and he said after some thinking: "A friend is a person you can disagree and fight with, and still play with later".
- anjanb 10y agoyour son is smart. he will a go way.
- soft_dev_person 10y agoGetting that close to all my coworkers would be too daunting a task. Edit: Not to belittle your son's wisdom, of course. I totally agree.
- hvidgaard 10y agoIt was merely that "it's okay to befriend a coworker, and if it doesn't work out, was it really a friend anyway?" kinda thing. I think he mostly got it from my wife and I sitting down with our children after having a fight and telling them that we're still mom and dad, we've put it behind us, and it's okay not to get along all the time.
- tamana 10y agoA professional is someone you can disagree and fight with, an still work with later.