Wednesday, July 05, 2006
workplace relations
We've been watching a lot of Newsradio lately. It's the best live-action sit-com of the '90's, easily. It got me thinking, though; I've never become friends with any of my co-workers at any of the office jobs I've had. I've never been a part of a crazy collection of work-room cut-ups, each with a broadly defined personality and appeal to a specific demographic category. My offices have always been staffed by a bunch of lonely, bored people who can't wait to get home. You watch tv shows and everybody's always hanging out and getting drinks after work and driving each other to the airport and throwing surprise parties at home and shit. Nothing like this has ever existed between me and any of my coworkers, not even something on as casual a level as getting a drink after work. I think this is probably as odd and unrealistic as the whole "coworkers as best friends" thing on tv. But so, my question: how many of you people are good friends with your coworkers? It doesn't count if you were friends before you worked together. I'm interested to see if any of our regular commenters ever hang out with their coworkers.
We've been watching a lot of Newsradio lately. It's the best live-action sit-com of the '90's, easily. It got me thinking, though; I've never become friends with any of my co-workers at any of the office jobs I've had. I've never been a part of a crazy collection of work-room cut-ups, each with a broadly defined personality and appeal to a specific demographic category. My offices have always been staffed by a bunch of lonely, bored people who can't wait to get home. You watch tv shows and everybody's always hanging out and getting drinks after work and driving each other to the airport and throwing surprise parties at home and shit. Nothing like this has ever existed between me and any of my coworkers, not even something on as casual a level as getting a drink after work. I think this is probably as odd and unrealistic as the whole "coworkers as best friends" thing on tv. But so, my question: how many of you people are good friends with your coworkers? It doesn't count if you were friends before you worked together. I'm interested to see if any of our regular commenters ever hang out with their coworkers.
