I had one in my old job but then I left, and then I had one in this job but she left and now I am lonely.

I tend to find a new one whenever I move location. My current work BFF is also lives in the flat next door to mine so it is a bit weird. He's currently away but will be back soon enough.

I might get a football and paint a face on it

and take it with me for coffee

In the absence of this person have you considered moaning about stuff on here as an alternative?

I mean it would obviously be a stopgap thing but it has to be worth a try, yes?

Stop it, Strutter. A lot of people come on here to moan about things. Stop picking on Clergs every time she posts something.

No, I don't.  I did for years but then I got promoted and now it doesn't really work any more as most of my gripes now are stuff I can't really share with them.

For lots of reasons that it would be outy to post about my current role is a very lonely one actually.  

Awwww, mum, you never let me have any fun.

I have 2 and I feel v lonely when they aren't here 

I might get a football and paint a face on it

"WIIIIIILSOOOOOONNNNN!"

I got nice colleagues (75%)

DD aren't you frequently on here complaining about your colleagues?

My work BFF or frolleague as we liked to call each other, both started out in the same team, both got promoted to the senior team but then she got promoted to a head of a new department which was fine. But then she jumped up to deputy director of something else and now I don't really see her that often and when I do see her in the orifice she is usually really busy and running off somewhere. We do still catch up every 2-4 weeks or so I guess but it's not the same and yes, it makes me sad.

I have however obtained a new work BFF who is lovely but not the same really. And can sometimes talk very loudly and in a very high pitched voice when it's not always appropriate which annoys me.

I need to know what ceiling cat does now. am thinking either speaker of the house of commons or assassin

heh@ in the orifice

I complain about two out of eight team members 

He’s deceased dictator of North Korea Kim Jong Il and he’s so ronery 

no work friends let alone work BFFs

being a manager sucks some times, but the power and money help me get over it

surely there are other managers you can hang with tho, phebz

one of the things me and work BFF like to moan about is how insane all our management requirements are (the people are fine, HR is not)

indeed if he left I think I might run mad

it once took me 8 months to get a new member of staff to actually start for no other reason than "because systems"

then a trainee turned up one day and his security pass already worked and for some reason this was a disaster

My whole team are actually work BFFs but it's a sort of blokey 'ladz ladz ladz' environment so that might be expected. There are no wimin around to create covens and spread gossip

fook uuuuuuuuuu

men are the worst fooking gossips

"did you HEAR that Hugh had to leave because everyone hated him?"

I want mugens job

TBF DD there are some wiminfolk but we keep them siloed in all-male engineering teams.

It's the only way we can stop them hissing at each other and scratching

BFF?  Are you eleven?

sorry to hear you don't have a work BFF, badman

Of course I don't - I'm a fooking adult.

Heh

dude you wear lederhosen and post on an internet messaging board about your sexual proclivities?

I mean no judgement here but u ain't no adult as I would recognise it

so don't mock people who have friends and supportive networks I guess is what I'm saying

it's :(

Dude u r hardly one to criticise another about posting sexual info...  

I specifically said I did not condemn that so much as the wrong assertion of adulthood based on being unliked.

It's not childish to get on with work colleagues and I would say in a healthy/successful company it's the norm.

Lots of my colleagues' kids etc pursue hobbies together and colleagues are in sports teams etc. That's normal and good I think.

BadmanRofer is just a grump. He probably stomps around his office and has words like 'leader' 'strategy' and 'doer not a talker' all over his linkedin.

"Lots of my colleagues' kids etc pursue hobbies together and colleagues are in sports teams etc. That's normal and good I think."

That's American and sounds well w@nk.

I don't think americans really have time for hobbies?