> it's a horrible prospect to not expect to make friends at work But I already do have friends, and I see no reason to replace them with my current coworkers.

> it's a horrible prospect to not expect to make friends at work But I already do have friends, and I see no reason to replace them with my current coworkers. For me, a horrible prospect is that a corporation could hold my social network hostage, so that if they fire me, I not only lose my income, but also my support group, on the same day. (I am not opposed in principle to finding a friend among my colleagues, if we happen to click on the personal level. But I am not going to force it; my standards are quite strict. It happened twice in my life, and we meet regularly despite no longer working together. They have been upgraded from the "colleague" level to the "friend" level.)