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Whats wrong with being mates with people you work with?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:33, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

it depends on how good friends with them you are
and whether they put work relationship or friendship first.

since a couple of people left my office I'd only class one person here as friend first and colleague second.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)

True
I now have the odd situation where I'm in charge of some of my mates

This can be odd
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:37, Reply)

yeah
one of my mates (and mate of my brother) is my brother's girlfriend's boss.

That can be awkward.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:38, Reply)

My mate works on reception here
She helped get me the job (by making blu-tack voodoo dolls of the other applicants).
I also got another mate a job here, he's one of the very few here that I'd consider having 'round my house.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:41, Reply)

there have been a couple through here who I just clicked with
and consider to be among my best friends. Unfortunately they have both left and moved to other cities. The bastards.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:42, Reply)

I think I've been here too long now!
Most of my mates work here!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:44, Reply)

Yep, one guy I clicked with, almost to bromance levels
Moved away before Christmas. Have just planned to meet him soon for drinks.
Edit: If you remember my shitty comics, he's the smoking guy with the bandanna.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)

my mate works for a company that tends to host the user group meetings for the software I use day-in, day-out
which is quite convenient.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:46, Reply)

Ah, the comics
Back in the annals of history.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)

I almost forget that Labs made them
because we didn't talk all that much back then
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:59, Reply)

Nope, dunno why though

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:00, Reply)

hadn't quite realised that we are almost the same person at that point.
aaah, the innocent time before The Picture
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)

We're almost, but not quite
You know in Mario Kart, where you do a time trial, and later on when you're racing you see a ghost of your previous performance?

Yeah.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:06, Reply)

I know what you mean
"This is what happens when you go through life with a mohawk instead of a beard"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:08, Reply)

Well now you've seen my feeble starting attempts at a beard
I reckon I'll stick with the mohawk.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:12, Reply)

stick with what you know

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)

causes OMG IRLDRAMZ

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)

there's nothing categorically wrong with it
I just meant I personally don't want to be friends with the people I work with, most of them spend their time in trendy wine bars showing everyone else how successful they are.

Not one of them finds aids funny.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)

I see
Its the fact that the people you work with are cunts, not the fact that you work with them
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)