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Some of best friends were coworkers. It makes sense. We have a shared background and a shared interest. We already spend 1/2 of the time awake together, so w
by jedberg 5y ago
Some of best friends were coworkers. It makes sense. We have a shared background and a shared interest. We already spend 1/2 of the time awake together, so why not more?
I think your real complaint is socializing at the office. I had a German coworker once who complained about the same thing. He said,
"In Germany we come to work at 9am, we work until 4pm with a 15 minute break for lunch, and we don't talk to anyone about anything other than work. Then we go to the beer hall and drink and chat until 7pm and then go home to our family. Here in America I come to work at 9am, chat with my coworkers all day about personal things, take a 1 hour lunch to chat some more, and then go home at 7pm. It's the same amount of work but none of the drinking!".
- carlmr 5y ago>In Germany we come to work at 9am, we work until 4pm with a 15 minute break for lunch 45 minute is the usual break in Germany, who can eat lunch in 15 minutes? Usual workday is 8h work + 45 min break. So 9-17:45 would be usual. Or 8-16:45. There are people in union jobs with 35h work week though, that work one hour less, but if they go in at 9 they stay until 16:45. If you work over 6h in a day you have to do a minimum break of 30 minutes by law. So in your example I guess Americans stay 1:15h longer per day than what is normal in Germany.
- jedberg 5y agoI'm sure he was exaggerating when he said it, but his overall point was that they work at work and then socialize after work, instead of mixing the two.