Your Coworkers Are Not Your Friends - I Learned The Hard Way!

Your Coworkers Are Not Your Friends - I learned the hard way. In this video, I share tips for dealing with office friendships. Early in my career, I trusted a coworker and overshared. It came back to bite me. I learned early on that office friendships can turn toxic quickly, so be careful when making friends in the workplace.

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[amicaaranearum]

Reminder: someone who gossips _to_ you will gossip _about_ you.

[NepsterSVK]

Rule 1) Company is not your family!
Rule 2) Coworkers are not your friends!
Rule 3) HR protects company not you!

[omar]

I think a lot of people in life are not your friends. You only get a small number of real friends in life.

[CarlosAndresR]

The most important thing to learn...

1- HR lies all the time.
2- There is no such thing as an open door policy.
3- Nothing is "off the record.
4- they always screw you no matter what

[flawns]

Never forget. Just because people graduated from highschool ... doesn't mean they graduated from highschool (mentally)

[munchkin]

It's difficult. Trying to stay almost robotically neutral vs. wanting to let a bit of your humanity out with people you spend 8+ hours with – it's always a weird balance to strike.

[LishaJoya]

note to self...keep mouth closed...eyes open and ears open and mind focused

[partycakes]

Anything you say, can and will be used against you.

[hiflyer]

1. Be friendly with your coworkers, not friends with them.
2. Never add or follow them on social media
3. At least 1 person you work with will stab you in the back without hesitation
4. Your employer doesn't care about you, and they probably don't care enough to sort out the facts from gossip.

[MansubSWalke]

1. Be careful about oversharing
2. Gossiping
3. Negative coworkers
4. Loose lips sink ships

[BurnTheFlag]

You can be friendly with your coworkers, but your coworkers are not your friends. That is a lesson everyone needs to take to heart.

[lvsqcsl]

My dad told me a very long time ago that you can't associate with people you work with, PERIOD. I have annoyed some of my co-workers by not attending events I am invited to attend. I also don't sell cars to people I know. Something I have discovered, if you listen to gossip but don't repeat it people will tell you everything and you can be more aware of things going on around you.

[IrishLincoln]

I tell my coworkers the least information possible. They don't even know I'm married, where I'm from, where I live, nothing.
I keep it that way.

[bobowon]

I worked with a guy who spent the first 3 months with the company trying to be friends with everyone. He learned about peoples lives and interests, everyone liked him. Then he went to the owner and told the owner every possible negative thing he could about everyone and tried to say how that if he were manager he could clean up the swamp so to speak.

He was fired immediately.

[brg]

If you tell one person anything, they all know. Keep conversations light, positive and uplifting. Smile and be friendly.

[lakecountynaturalist]

I have a coworker who worked with me during the Lockdown. We ran our grocery store’s food delivery service and went through hell together. We are have become old war buddies. When my husband died, she was the first one I called. When bad stuff goes down at work, she stands by me and I stand by her. You can trust some of your coworkers.

[Mikey-]

This is why I now just show up to work, do what I'm supposed to do and leave. Had too many toxic work enviornments in the past and made the mistake of being too open with coworkers. I'm polite and respectful, but I NEVER go into my personal life anymore.

[nicolemonrue]

People at my job consider me standoffish and rude for not interacting...and thats fine with me

[anonymouscitizen]

I got one rule when talking about people who aren't there. Never say anything behind someone's back that you're not comfortable saying to their face. Trust that word will always reach them, and if it does, be prepared to take responsibility for what you said by saying it to their face and standing by what you said. The rule will help you keep it positive when talking about others in the event you ever have to.

If you have nothing nice to say, just say nothing at all.