“Your coworkers aren't your friends, and pretending they are just makes layoffs more painful”
Agree
- Professional boundaries protect your mental health
- Companies will always choose profit over people
- Mixing friendship with work creates messy conflicts
- Real friends stick around after you leave
Disagree
- Genuine connections can happen anywhere, even work
- Life's too short to be cold and distant
- Work friendships make the job actually enjoyable
- Some of my best friends came from work
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