While it's important to maintain certain boundaries between your work life and personal life, fostering a friendship with a co-worker is a healthy way to improve the daily grind.
It's not always professional (or easy) to become bosom buddies with co-workers you work directly with, but being friends with fellow employees from other departments offers many rewards — from having someone to vent to, having a steady lunch date to having someone who can help you when you have a question or feel lost. Do you have a work BFF that you turn to when you need a laugh, help or a shoulder to lean on?
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yes, shes my work-wife.
1Yes! My best friend actually works at the same place as me
So I'm
lucky that my BFF is my work BFF too!
2at my last job i definitely had a friend that was a bit closer to me than the others - we went on trips together, hung out and all that - but it came to bite me in the butt since our bosses started to feel like we were so close that if one got something then the other had to and that kind of impeded on my promotion and that wasn't fair (which kind of lead to my decision to leave the agency).
now i kind of like to keep my distance at work from people. i talk to my asst a lot - but i don't really bond with her or anyone for that matter.
3Not really. I have a couple coworkers that I socialize with more than others, but only in the office and I wouldn't really call them "friends" at all.
4Not yet. I've only been at a new place for a month. But, at my last job I had a bunch of friends. One in particular and it really does help to have someone to vent to and laugh with.
5I work with my husband, so that would be him, I am the only woman besides the secretary and the men are well men...
6Yes, I totally do and she's also my work-wife, like Martini Rossi above. We do lots of wifey things together, like make sandwiches for lunch, etc. In fact, our co-workers in the department call us the bickering old couple.
7Yes! And she's awesome!
8Yes, they keep you grounded and happier.
9Yes, they keep you grounded and happier.
10I did and then she decided to leave the company but we still text almost every day, it's weird without her in the office, we helped each other stay sane in this screwed up company.
11I had a work bff at my old company and we still chat all the time but I don't have anyone at my current company that I can go to. That said, I love my co-workers.
12I wish I did right now but I don't. I think that is part of the reason I am so miserable in my current position our office is really small and our boss pits everyone against eachother. This is one time that I am looking forward to being unemployed as of November 1st. The economy may be crap but I am interviewing and should have something to the pay the bills that is stable and much better benefits!
13Nope, but if I did I know it would make this job a lot better!
14Ive damn near got 3. It can be weird sometimes but mostly its awesome.
15i have a couple and some are even my real life BFs!
16I did have a work BFF... until he got let go last week due to layoffs.
17Work husbands. If it weren't for them, I would melt into a heaping mass of nerves...
18I am work-close with everyone I work with, but my best friend is a nurse in the same hospital as I am, which is fun. Our schedules don't always coincide, but when they do, I love it. It's also fun to be on call with him working the night shift.
19I DID, until we had a bit of a personal spat recently and now she is taking it out on me at work... ugh. My lesson learned: be cordial and friendly with coworkers, but you do NOT need to become best friends with them!
20Jup, but it's great that she's in another department a floor below mine. That way we work with the same people but not directly. I've felt so much better since she started working here, it's great to have someone to call to when you feel like letting off some steam!
21i wish! i do however have an office person who lately thinks it is fun to bait me about every thing i do, booking leave etc. i could scream!
22Yes! I would have lost my sanity long ago if it wasn't for her.
23I definitely love my work-sister. If it weren't for her, those 8 hours a day would be pure hell.
24Yes. Work BFFs are so much better than office cliques!
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