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[graculus]

I've had a falling out with someone at work, or more correctly, they've fallen out with me.

It's like this... I worked quite closely with this person on one particular piece of work for about 18 months and she formed the impression that we were friends. To the point where she invited me to her son's wedding and I only escaped because she went into hospital for a routine operation that turned out to be anything other than routine, which meant she was off work for a couple of months. Now she's back and not happy with me because I didn't get in touch with her while she was off work.

I don't know about anyone else, but there have been very few people I work with who I also consider friends. I could probably count them on the fingers of one hand over 17 years of gainful employment. Given that I don't tell people at work about my fannish secret identity, how could that possibly be otherwise?

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[lexin.livejournal.com]

I've been working full time just over 20 years and of the people I've worked with two became outside-work friends and both of those are trade union folks. I don't look to work to make friends because in my experience it simply hasn't worked out that way - maybe I'm strange, but I think I'm pretty typical.