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I am German and this statement catches me by surprise. All of my friends from a lot of different fields would agree that workplace friends are a very important pillar of our lives.

I think there are many strategies to get your own needs met. Keeping friends and work separate doesn’t automatically make it unhealthy; it’s more about individual choice. My peers would not want to work in places without friendship.

[bowsamic]

I haven't encountered a workplace where that would be tolerated

[anal_reactor]

"your coworkers aren't your friends" is a thing that came to us along with industrial revolution. When you live in a small village during medieval times you're going to be friends with everyone, whether you like it or not, and you'll spend most of your life working with your immediate family. But when industrial revolution came, people started working together with strangers in giant factories. And let's be honest, from the perspective of factory owner, it's best if strangers stay strangers. If they start getting buddy-buddy with each other not only you'll see workplace conflicts, but also they might organise and demand something.

[bowsamic]

Okay well I live in capitalist times and not in a small village. I don't really care about the reason. I don't want to make friends at work

[anal_reactor]

If you paid attention to what I wrote you'd see a clear reason why having friends at work benefits you in capitalist globalist times, but I guess you're just antisocial, and you're trying to logic your way into that preference, instead of admitting that it's just a preference.

[bowsamic]

False + projection