WFH in a national team so not much chit-chat. More comfortable with that than probably speaks well of me.
More than Iād like. Iāve lost trust in the company and some of the people who work there, and itās hard to row back on people knowing a lot about you.
Not a lot really. The job is remote so I donāt really just chat with people. In person Iām a right natterer so would probably have divulged everything if we were in the office but itās not like that on calls is it.
My other two long term full time jobs Iāve made multiple lifelong friends (and one literal life partner) from, but I donāt think Iād really do that in my current job. Itās a bit more proffesh, and Iām finding that the older I get, the more different I become from most people my own age. I like the people I work with, but theyāre mostly not anything at all like the people I socialise with.
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Used to hate talking about myself in previous jobs so much that I just made a load of shit up. Had to keep track of a web of nonsense iād created so I didnāt contradict myself.
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More than enough for my liking.
Probably far too much
A mixture. About ten years ago I moved to another country where I knew one person and started working in a team who were all in pretty much the same situation. This led to a lot of socialising together outside work with people I wouldnāt necessarily choose to.
Over time, people moved away or got married or new jobs and the one couple who everyone liked individually moved to Australia. Now we all work primarily remotely and any new hires are in different countries so that dynamic is gone but thereās still a couple of people I know well.
Has a weird effect that thereās at least one person who i donāt actually like that much who knows a lot more about me than Iād like but who has also been instrumental in keeping my job here instead of being outsourced.
Have always enjoyed the āWho the fuck are that band you went to see?ā chat and actively play up to it.
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