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View nickyf's Profile nickyf 06 Feb 16 2.27pm Send a Private Message to nickyf Add nickyf as a friend

is it wrong to class people you work with as colleagues? and not friends.

 

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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 06 Feb 16 5.14pm Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by nickyf

is it wrong to class people you work with as colleagues? and not friends.

Why should it be wrong? They are all colleagues, some may also be friends.

I always find it odd that some people describe everyone they know as a 'friend' when most of them are nothing more than mere acquaintances.

Ask yourself one simple question: if you were in a very embarrassing hole, would you go to any of these people and trust them to help you out? If the answer is yes, they are friends, if no then just colleagues or acquaintances.

 


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View moylerg's Profile moylerg Flag Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire 06 Feb 16 5.16pm Send a Private Message to moylerg Add moylerg as a friend

Originally posted by becky

Why should it be wrong? They are all colleagues, some may also be friends.

I always find it odd that some people describe everyone they know as a 'friend' when most of them are nothing more than mere acquaintances.

Ask yourself one simple question: if you were in a very embarrassing hole, would you go to any of these people and trust them to help you out? If the answer is yes, they are friends, if no then just colleagues or acquaintances.

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Hoof Hearted 07 Feb 16 10.59am

Some are friends, others are colleagues... most are w@nkers!

I still have good mates from work who I met in 1980 working for London Life. We relocated to Bristol, set up a football team and had loads in common.

Colleagues sign your leaving card and when you look at it years later you struggle to remember them.

W@nkers are everywhere.. they're at work, as you travel to work, go to lunch... they are even on here!

 

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View DanH's Profile DanH Flag SW2 07 Feb 16 11.04am Send a Private Message to DanH Add DanH as a friend

Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

Some are friends, others are colleagues... most are w@nkers!

I still have good mates from work who I met in 1980 working for London Life. We relocated to Bristol, set up a football team and had loads in common.

Colleagues sign your leaving card and when you look at it years later you struggle to remember them.

W@nkers are everywhere.. they're at work, as you travel to work, go to lunch... they are even on here!

W@nker

 

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View mr. apollo's Profile mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 07 Feb 16 11.08am Send a Private Message to mr. apollo Add mr. apollo as a friend

If they are workplace I count them as colleagues, even though some are friends, but I do have a hard and fast rule, they go to linkedin and never on Facebook.

 



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View Jimenez's Profile Jimenez Flag SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 07 Feb 16 11.08am Send a Private Message to Jimenez Add Jimenez as a friend

.........or Co-Workers as they insist in calling them here.

 


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View sxp55's Profile sxp55 Flag South Norwood 07 Feb 16 11.09am Send a Private Message to sxp55 Add sxp55 as a friend

Originally posted by mr. apollo

If they are workplace I count them as colleagues, even though some are friends, but I do have a hard and fast rule, they go to linkedin and never on Facebook.

Preach! Found that out the hard way!

 


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Hoof Hearted 07 Feb 16 11.10am

Originally posted by DanH

W@nker

Hahaha... you oaf.... you do make me laugh!

 

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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 07 Feb 16 10.14pm

They're colleagues until they leave or I leave. Colleagues go on linked in, and if there is a bit more than just people I worked with, they go on facebook.

I try to be professional with most people I work with, as its unlikely I'll be working with them for more than a year.

 


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View HeathMan's Profile HeathMan Flag Purley 08 Feb 16 12.10am Send a Private Message to HeathMan Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add HeathMan as a friend

Quite a clear area. Current fashion - deemed correct when speaking, using employer supplied equipment, is colleagues (I am unable to assist you, my colleague will be able to assist) in the UK, or co-worker in the US. I do like to refer to fellow workers I can trust (as you trust friends) as workmates. One legacy from a divided Germany is the use of the work "comrade" as an end of a longer word examples being work-comrade and play-comrade - one more formal than the other.

 

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View steph_eagle's Profile steph_eagle Flag Thornton Heath 08 Feb 16 8.10am Send a Private Message to steph_eagle Add steph_eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

Some are friends, others are colleagues... most are w@nkers!

I still have good mates from work who I met in 1980 working for London Life. We relocated to Bristol, set up a football team and had loads in common.

Colleagues sign your leaving card and when you look at it years later you struggle to remember them.

W@nkers are everywhere.. they're at work, as you travel to work, go to lunch... they are even on here!

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