can work friends be real friends?

my answer would be yes and no.. i also experienced how our office friends can be a really good friends but it all come back to a thing called communication i'd been very close with my office partners we shared our problems together, had lunch together and etc but when i resigned from my job, i missed contact with them they must have been really busy with their tasks and i think i'm also busy with mine so we don't contact each other again till now too bad.. heheee, thanks mari_skye !! ^^

Yes, there are instances like that. You can be real friends with your co workers. However, on my part, my experience is just the opposite. I found my co worker as an enemy. She tends to compete with me, she acts like the boss being the more senior one when the boss is not around, she loves talking stuff against us, criticize others. In short, everybody hates her. Can i be real friend to her? I guess, i won't.

Might be that work friends become better in relations. But I myself haven't noticed it much. Though there are few of my dad's friends who sometimes show true friendship, but most of the times I have seen work friends to be more self-centered and sometimes mean. I have seen that they never give off the competition and sometimes they can even cheat on you or do politics with you as per there needs, and the next thing you would be left thinking is "I thought we were friends....." We should choose our friends nicely as loads of people just befriend us to use us so just take your time before you actually think they are you good friends. And yes if you all are true from heart then friendship can always live. Take care May GOD Bless YOU

YEs ..why not..! Work friends can be real friends!! As they are one of the people you spend the most of your time with!! And on top of that its not about work friends or school friend..!! Its about the person ..! The real person whether he can be your real friend or not! I usually never categories "my" friends as work friends or school friends!! All of them are my friends the only difference is I meet them at different times!!

I think that would depend on you and your friends if you still want to keep in touch after you have moved on to another company or if one of you resigns. But, of course, work friends can become good friends.

Friends can be found in anywhere. You just never know. Of course, if you find a friend in your office, after you resign you will still have your friends. As long as you keep maintain your friendship with them. I still be friends with my old friends in prior company. And until now, we still enjoying shopping together..LOL.

In this fast world,getting and finding a good friend is the main problem.Good luck is needed to get a good friend.You cannot believe more on work friends.From my experience i am telling it.A friend in need is a friend indeed.

I firmly believe so. My best friends in life I met through my work. Both also became my boss somehow. We have been through a lot together and experiences were just tops from lows and highs. Now that we are no longer working n the same company and have gone our separate ways, we are still very good friends and see each other from time to time. It is always a pity to let special people that we get to meet in life just slip away.

I think it differs and it depends on different people.to some people,I can not make friends with them,no matter how long have we known,we do not have topics;but to some people,even though we know for a few days,then I can get along well with them,and we can be good and forever friends.

Sorry, I don't think so. I am a atrabilious guy maybe. Work and life are different matters to me. I never talk about the topic of my life with my work friends overfull, though we often badinage each other and help each other during the working time. But if some of them or I leave the current company, I will be keep in touch with some of them regarded as good friends by me. Talk about something of our daily life, go shopping on our vocation together and so on at that time.

Work Friends will never be real friends.. You should be lucky if you get one...

Of course. If you will only continue to keep in touch with your work friend..Since you have the same commonality,then surely your friendship will work even if you will not be in the same office anymore.Keeping the friendship doesn't mean that you have to see each other always but to remember each other and keeping in touch in any way.

Well this can be possible.You can make pretty good friends at your workplace depends on people working there.I have rarel heard work friends becoming good freinds but it is possible.I have heard people telling their experiences. It depends upon your friends whether they would like to be in touch with you.Initially you call them up, if they give you good response that means they are your real friends.That bonding is possible if you people are in touch and if they really admire you.

On this topic, I think it depends on what you really communicat with each other and what kind of person you all are. If you really feel happy with each other and really be interested in each other's life style without concerning work. You may become good friends after apart. Otherwise friendship will remain until one of you leave.

Work friends can be real friends. I have many good friends that I have kept in touch with and get together with that I met at work.

this is a good question, i get on with most of the people i work with but my night manager i get on better then anyone else, at the moment i am looking for a flat and she came with me to help me with the process as i have never moved on my own before, i think it depends on if you do things with them out of work to whether you could keep the friendship or not

I work in several of the schools in my area in the last five years and i have met alot of great people and we have developed lasting friendships. Even when i havent worked at the particular school that they work at for a while we still do things together and chat frequently. Alot of my really close friends came from the places that i have worked. So yes it is very possible to keep the friendship alive in the future.

I think can, but I have really learned a lot. I trusted people too easily. I think in work you need to really get to know people before you consider them close friends and trust them. I do think the real ones, you will keep in touch.

I believe working colleagues can still be friends even if you left the company. I still keep in touch with my ex-colleages even though I left the company.

I would have to say yes. It would depend on the people that you are being friends with. I understand that in lthe work place we have competitions and the idea to better than the other but that is just the relationship of co-workers. friendship is measured when both of you are already outside of the work place. If your co-worker can be you friend outside the office and really be there and true to you when you need help, then it simply means they can be real friends. Bottomline, it would depend on your work friend.