[watwut]

Those people were bound to cease to be friends the moment either of you changes the job. If your crisis is after or relates to loosing a job (due to being sick for long time for example or due to staying at home with a small/sick child for some time), those friendships were bound to break.

[TranquilMarmot]

This was at a relatively small startup, so we all spent a lot of time together. Those that did leave are/were still in the friend group! I know this is pretty rare in the corporate world, but it really was a "special place" to work.