Do you get on with your colleagues?

Heisenberg.

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Rob_l

I get along with a few people in work but none are friends of mine I have friends and Im not interviewing for anymore

Dinxminx

Yep! Only really have one colleague and she's great!!

whiskeyman

I've always made very good friends (and girlfriends - big mistake!!) in my workplaces.
However, I'd only really have around 3 or 4 of such good friends. There'd be a lot of 'mates' then the rest just get a 'hello' and sympathy ear when needed...

LadyJ

One of my actual friends works with me, the others are just inconveniences who hang around.

l3LoWnA

There's over 650 in my building so I work with an interestingly diverse range pf people. There are some GREAT people who I work with, most I get on quite well with, some I would call friends (we'd be there for each other, meet up outside work, call each other with tit-bits of gossip or to chat about things in our lives), some of them are the types of people I hate to be around and some absolutely keep to themselves so you cant possibly say if you would or would not get on with them!

However, I must say, friends or not, there is absolutely NO-ONE I work with who knows the REAL me!

biko

I get on great with most at work but tend to keep my social and work lives separate. Work from my house a lot too so then it's no problem

mayte

I have two colleagues, one is really funny and nice to be with, the other is an antisocial monster who never utters a word unless it is monosyllabic.

Your story of the couple euros reminds me of my former job, where one of my colleagues was a religion teacher and tried to convince the rest of us to sign a petition for the compulsory religion class not to be taken off the general education system (there's this debate now in Spain) and I was all the time hiding from her because all the girls had signed and it was really embarrassing for me to have to tell her no in front of everybody. I managed to hide from her all the time and I left this job withoug signing... yes!:D

MikeHoncho

Work in a small office. 12 of us here at the moment. We all get on great despite there being some age / regional differences. Heading out with them tonight actually, should be good crack as always.

Rob_l

mayte wrote: »

I have two colleagues, one is really funny and nice to be with, the other is an antisocial monster who never utters a word unless it is monosyllabic.

Your story of the couple euros reminds me of my former job, where one of my colleagues was a religion teacher and tried to convince the rest of us to sign a petition for the compulsory religion class not to be taken off the general education system (there's this debate now in Spain) and I was all the time hiding from her because all the girls had signed and it was really embarrassing for me to have to tell her no in front of everybody. I managed to hide from her all the time and I left this job withoug signing... yes!:D

You should have refused to sign in front of everyone on principal, I have refused to donate to religious charities in my current job necause i am not religious, I have no problem donating to charities i believe do a worthwile job but I will not donate to religious affiliated groups just because of social pressure

mayte

Rob_l wrote: »

You should have refused to sign in front of everyone on principal, I have refused to donate to religious charities in my current job necause i am not religious, I have no problem donating to charities i believe do a worthwile job but I will not donate to religious affiliated groups just because of social pressure

I know, you are right, but it was really hard to do. I felt "evil"

ibh

I think I work in an office with some of the nicest people in Ireland. I'm not actually friends with any of them, but they are all so nice it's impossible to complain about them. It's smiles and conpliments all round. And i hate it!!
Luckily our boss is a grumpy bastard so at least there is someone else like me in here, and you need to have somebody at work to hate.

Dave!

Last 3 jobs.......

Cinema: made loads of friends... can go out drinking, etc., with about 70% of them. See regularly probs 4 or 5.

Hospital: friendly with everyone, but only go out with 1 or 2 regularly. Most not in my age group.

Office: friendly with everyone... go out drinking with bout 60%... regularly see 6 or 7.

Cuddlesworth

Hmm, out of around 1600 people for a year and a half I can count the amount of proper friends on 1 hand. Its 0. But I get along with most of those people, so I don't see the problem.

NoQuarter

OP you sound like an insociable loser, i reckon you get your pay on a friday and go drink it on your own, in some dingy bar, reflecting on being bullied in school and playing air guitar to the songs on in the bar

5starpool

There are only a couple of people I despise out of thoes here i knw. the rest are split into those I don't know, and there are mutual igniring arrangements in place, and those I do know. Of those I do know (apart from the aforementioned despised ones), I get on well with most of them and would call about 10 or so that are left, and a few that have left, friends that I socialise with at least now and then.

Not the worst bunch too work with in my dept except the age gap is about 10 years at least but I get on great with my managers and the guy I work directly with. I'd have a great time and a good giggle if i were to drink with them regurlarly. I'm goig for a meal tonight but the 2 people I would most interact with aren't going but still should be fun

Heisenberg.

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Duiske

king-stew wrote: »

OP you sound like an insociable loser, i reckon you get your pay on a friday and go drink it on your own, in some dingy bar, reflecting on being bullied in school and playing air guitar to the songs on in the bar

I'd say most people would not have good friends in work. I mean friends in the true sense of the word. As for getting on with colleagues, i get on with all mine. Well, except one who is a bit strange. In his defence though, he's from Leitrim, so that could explain it.

Dave!

The Scientist wrote: »

Oh, and its 'unsociable'.

It's "it's".

Grammar nazism = ghey.

Heisenberg.

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cance

i work for a small company owned by a large us multi-national.

my work place seems to be a haven for the cronically retarded, obsessively ugly and bullshíte artists. to say the least you have to be a sadomasochistic to stay here after 6 months.

on the plus side tho, i have exactly 6 working days left with these chronically challenged dribblers.

Hester

I think the best places to work for getting on with your colleagues are those crappy jobs that you have as a student, or before you panic and think that you should get a "real" job. Most of the staff are in the same situation so have more in commen.

Then a few years on you find yourself sitting in the canteen in your "real" job, listening to people discussing their children, mortgages, their pregnancies... :(

Eoin

I get on very well with my team (5 of us), we've been or are going to each others' weddings etc, so a pretty close team. I suppose the test is how much effort will be made should one of us leave the company. We're from pretty different backgrounds, so I don't think we'd have ever ended up in the pub together were it not for the fact we work together.

After hearing some horror stories of weird and/or obnoxious colleagues, I think I've been lucky enough so far in my career.

Cormster

I'd get along with most of my co-workers. There'd be a few that I would not have much time for. Luckily most of them don't talk much usually.

All in all, its not a bad place to work as regards friendly people, although for the most part we're not bussom (spelling?) buddies.

NoQuarter

The Scientist wrote: »

Ha ha, are you one of those 'charismatic team leads'

i think the politically correct term is a 'happy bunny'! i dont mind that you hate people like us because your type hate the whole world right?

Oh, and its 'unsociable'.

a slip of the hand is no fault of the mind as someone very smart once said!

oh to be picked up on grammar while correcting another, ya must feel silly now, thanks dave.
its was kinda 'ghey' wasnt it! i wouldnt, for example, pick the scientist up on the use of a comma & an 'and' together and point out thats its one or the other!

Huggles

I get on great and have a laugh with all but one of my colleagues. Funny everyone else hates him too. he tries to string you up at any available opportunity, is crap at his job and is so rude he doesnt even say please or thanks for anything you do for him.

Horrible person.

NoQuarter

TheGooner wrote: »

I get on great and have a laugh with all but one of my colleagues. Funny everyone else hates him too. he tries to string you up at any available opportunity, is crap at his job and is so rude he doesnt even say please or thanks for anything you do for him.

Horrible person.

could be the OP!

Huggles

king-stew wrote: »

could be the OP!

LOL no. This guy I work with could only coem on here to be a troll as thats all he is capable of doing.

Stewie play nice!

monkeyfudge

Well there is a bit of a social divide between management and staff in my work... But I'd probably be the only one on management who gets on well with both groups.

There's a work social thing on this evening... I wasn't planning on going but I've recieved so many texts from staff this evening asking me to attend that I'll have to pop along. I doubt anyone else from management will be there.

Zaph

I've met a few really good friends through work, just come back from a few days away with a group that included one of them in fact. I generally get on well with everyone else, there are only a handful that annoy the crap out of me.

Eoin

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Well there is a bit of a social divide between management and staff in my work... But I'd probably be the only one on management who gets on well with both groups.

I'm sure that's what David Brent would say too

monkeyfudge

eoin_s wrote: »

I'm sure that's what David Brent would say too

They all love my great jokes too...

Mrs. MacGyver

I get on grand with the people in my section. There's a bit of humerous slagging since most are from Dublin with only about 3 from the country (including me).

pablot

I work in one of our fine local government bodies . There is a big gender and age differential between myself and the rest of the staff i.e. 4 men and 20 women. The women for the most part are in their late forties and have kids. I suppose thats why we get on, we led different lives, i would listen to their crazy kid stories and they would listen to my night on the town stories. Somewhere in between, we have a laugh.

Ps im 23

r3nu4l

In my last job I didn't get on with a single colleague of mine which was weird because I've always gotten on with previous colleagues. Now in the job I'm in now I get on well with everybody from the newbies to the CEO and MD Apat from one guy who's just rude, obnoxious and aggressive to anyone he thinks will take his bullying behaviour. Thankfully he knows he can't try that crap with me but it annoys me to see him bullying others :mad:

Poppy Cock

I run my own business, and I only hire sound people around my own age group (23-33).

the_syco

I usually get on with everyone. Last job, in the cinema, there was two annoying f**kers.

Current job: grand, except for two people.

I find that those who I hate are hated by one and all.

There's only been two jobs so far that I've been in that I haven't gone drinking with. A part-time job at a local shop, and when I was 16 working in a kitchen. Apart from that, I've gotten on with the people, and gone out drinking with them.

=-=

Some people mention putting on a fake smile: I hate people like you. I have more respect for those who say they hate me, rather than pretend like some tosser to get on with me, and hate it.

intheknow

em.. what does monosyllabic. mean ?

Dave!

one syllable.

Hester

Hester wrote: »

Then a few years on you find yourself sitting in the canteen in your "real" job, listening to people discussing their children, mortgages, their pregnancies... :(

Yea that get real old very quickly

SerialComplaint

Poppy Cock wrote: »

I run my own business, and I only hire sound people around my own age group (23-33).

You are probably breaking the law.