Is your work place gregarious?

I'm not close with many people at work because I work from home and don't have much contact besides IM and email. I only go in to the office about once per month. I have developed a few real friendships... but like my other non-work friendships, I don't have much contact with those friends either.

I guess there are people at work who are great friends.... Since I'm not there much, I couldn't really point many friendships out to you.

I don't work but when I did -- no WAY. At the last dump, people stayed in their own little cliques and liked to gossip about others. Not a very friendly bunch. Many were older women who'd been there since the beginning of time and were used to just sitting there keyboarding data entry all day. Some favored loud radios. There was this one weirdo that was always making strange remarks and the supervisors were all nuts. The only time we would all go to any work-related social functions would be in Dec. when they'd treat a few groups at a time to a buffet at a big barn of a restaurant that wasn't upscale or fancy -- you'd go up and pile food on your plate, all you could eat.

I do not work and am retired

Not traditional...my Mary hired a friend. I sleep with the boss so...

> Not traditional...my Mary hired a friend. I sleep with the boss so...

that sounds pretty friendly to me

I work at home... sometimes my wife and I don't even say hello...

Indeed

I'm at college. Most classes are alright. English Language is a bomb waiting to go off, though.

yes there are and there aren't. there are many groups who are very friendly and have functions and others who don't.

Somewhat but basically no. It's like being in a library - no sound. People are friendly to each other but not a lot of conversation. Everyone pretty much is their own "company". Like me, we have our job to do, frequently for people in other cities, states or countries and there is little or no need to interact with anyone else in the office. 99% of my communication with people is by email.
They do have a pizza lunch about once a month but I don't bother. And they have donuts on Fridays but I rarely go into the office on Friday's. They have a Halloween lunch/costume contest and Christmas dinner at a hotel. I never go to the Christmas thing.

Well, if you extend it to the whole university, then yes. The only friends I have where I'm living in New York are people who also work at the university. In my specific department, though, it's a little mixed. Everyone is very nice and gets along well, and there's a married couple, but other than that I don't think most of the people in my department spend a lot of time with each other when they're not in the office. They're also not in the office all that much. There's one person in my department I hang out with a lot off campus, although I hardly see him on campus at all as is office is in a different building.

Most of the places I used to work, we did not have after hour communication. Most of my friends, are school chums I've known for almost 60 years, or neighbors I've known for 45 years.

What is your profession?...if that's ok to ask...

We're always being schmoozed by various companies and we have to travel together sometimes, so social functions are built into the job. Real friendships develop over time and I personally haven't been there long enough to have more than a superficial relationship with anybody and I'm not sure I want to develop any. I have good friends from previous jobs, though, that have stood the test of time and these people are very precious to me.

Deep tissue, muscle release, trigger point...NOT a massage but balancing and realigning the body. Very similiar to Rolfing. I am actually a sub contractor at the office so I she isn't my boss, she's just the boss.

Yes, everyone gets on well here and there are often work-related parties outside of the workplace.
Most people here make it easy to be their boss, for which I am grateful

Yes, I work for myself and I'm my best friend. I also socialize, a lot!! (maybe too much but it's part of the job, so...)

My Cousin and I are Directors and we have an asst Manager and 3 staff .........so we dont have work related functions per-se, at Xmas we used to have parties so maybe

Deep tissue, muscle release, trigger point...NOT a massage but balancing and realigning the body.............. is this just another way of saying "making people have orgasms?

I don't work now, but a couple of places I worked were like this. One job I had, a group of us became well acquainted party buddies. That rocked!

uh, no David, unless you are the boss. AND YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!!!!

to a fault.

I don't work - I'm a student. People are very friendly though and various groups organise trips out, lunches etc. When I did work, the workplace was friendly, but the occasional social events were very alcohol-fuelled and I avoided them!