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I’m sorry you don’t have any real friends to get your socialization in, but forcing your coworkers to be your pretend friends is not the answer.

• oblio 5y ago
  That's just a silly approach to life, sorry. You're stuck in an office with other people 8 hours per day, you might as well make friends. Over a working life of 40 years that's 40 x 45 x 5 x 8 = about 8 full years of your life. And no, those people don't have to be your direct teammates, especially in bigger companies. Just look for compatible people. Relationships are based on proximity, heck, even most marriages start like that: highscool classmates, college students studying the same thing, co-workers, neighbors, whatever.
• freedom2099 5y ago
  To be fair some of my colleagues are among my best friends… we have been working together for a decade, we go out all the time, we have weekly DND night, we go camping, we travel together…