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I am unemployed now but back when I was working the main thing I noticed at the office is how little friendly non work conversation there was at the many places I used to work. Back before the Internet and email there use to be more pleasant conversation and true friendships at the office but now days it seems like most conversation is over the phone or via email. I rarely heard friendly non work conversation in my office just the sound of fingers against the keyboard and loads of people staring into their computers. It was so quiet it reminded me of a science fiction movie.
So, at your office is there much friendship and non work related conversation between coworkers?
I have a few friends from the office. We live close together. We hang out on the weekends (in fact, some of us were roommates at one time). We go bike riding, camping, jogging. We do happy hours. No harm, no foul.
I am unemployed now but back when I was working the main thing I noticed at the office is how little friendly non work conversation there was at the many places I used to work. Back before the Internet and email there use to be more pleasant conversation and true friendships at the office but now days it seems like most conversation is over the phone or via email. I rarely heard friendly non work conversation in my office just the sound of fingers against the keyboard and loads of people staring into their computers. It was so quiet it reminded me of a science fiction movie.
So, at your office is there much friendship and non work related conversation between coworkers?
I don't know if this is a coincidence but I totally see this. Could be because I am pushing 50 but back in the 1980s when i was in my 20s more of us would socialize after work: parties, Dodger games, fishing trips, etc. Maybe now I am in the married with kids mode and I live 50 miles from my job in suburbia that I am not part of the social scene. Plus, I work with nothing but engineers if you know what I mean.
I don't know if this is a coincidence but I totally see this. Could be because I am pushing 50 but back in the 1980s when i was in my 20s more of us would socialize after work: parties, Dodger games, fishing trips, etc. Maybe now I am in the married with kids mode and I live 50 miles from my job in suburbia that I am not part of the social scene. Plus, I work with nothing but engineers if you know what I mean.
LOL. My father was an engineer and I worked in the engineering department for 20 years and still work with them.
Yes, we have conversations and friendship. With some more than others. I do have a few friends with whom I socialize outside of work a few times a year, too.
Some of us longer-term employees also have a bond because we experienced tragedy and loss together. That has generated a closeness that will likely always remain.
I am unemployed now but back when I was working the main thing I noticed at the office is how little friendly non work conversation there was at the many places I used to work. Back before the Internet and email there use to be more pleasant conversation and true friendships at the office but now days it seems like most conversation is over the phone or via email. I rarely heard friendly non work conversation in my office just the sound of fingers against the keyboard and loads of people staring into their computers. It was so quiet it reminded me of a science fiction movie.
So, at your office is there much friendship and non work related conversation between coworkers?
Nope. I'm in my office 9 hours a day and almost no one comes to see me or say hello. If I talk to people it is the normal busy talk-- weather, sports--etc. Been working here 3 years now-- people have never invited me to lunch-- although people do go to lunch together. Sometimes I invite people to lunch, then they tell me they are going with so-and-so, but don't ask if I want to come along. It is really quiet in this office.
I never really got in with the "in crowd" I guess. I'm 25, married, and work as an engineer.
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