Work friends are some of the people you spend most of your time with. For eight hours each day, you share a piece of your life with them, support each other and complain to each other numerous times throughout the week. The people you work with are the people you grow as person with. Regardless of where you work, or what you do there will always be a special person or group of people who will always have your back. For that, I'm thankful.
They are the people who keep you at your job, no matter how much you hate where you work some days. After a while, you’ll come to realize your work friends are actually some of your closest friends and without your coworkers, you'd be asking yourself, "why even go to work?"
Like I said earlier, you spend all of your time together. You spend your entire day (or night) with them, and you hear about each and every part of their lives. You hear about their good days, and also the bad and you know about their children or their cute dog they just got. You work side-by-side and sometimes you find yourself together when you're not at work, it just comes with it.
Soon enough, you learn their habits and you end up knowing your work friends just about as well as their roommates probably know them.
You know when they like to each lunch and what their favorite foods are. You know that on Tuesdays, your coworkers like to get tacos down at the local restaurant. You know they freak out when they are without ballpoint pens, but thankfully Dollar Tree usually sells them cheap because pens will always go missing.
The people at work are supportive. They understand why you work so hard and isn't that really all we want in life? To be understood? Your coworkers will understand why you'll pick up extra shifts, but also understand when you decide the hours are becoming too much. They get you. Even if you decide to take another job, your coworkers will always support you in whatever career you take on. They'll be the first ones to ask how your first day went.
With any friendship comes secrets. At some point, side conversations ends and you talk about your lives together. When some coworkers show up hungover, you know exactly where they went the night before. When they have a significant other around, you already know who the person is and how they met, and did a through background check on them. When your work BFF looks beyond tired or sad, you've probably shared what is going on and tried to take the weight off their shoulder.
At some point in your work relationship, you found a common bond that allowed all of you to share information about your lives. At times, we all get by with a little help from our friends, and sometimes if we’re lucky, those friends can be counted among those we work with. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to work with the same people I now call my friends.
