Message #1015

[countrigal]

I too treasure friendships wherever they occur.  Until my last position I had not made any close friends with co-workers and felt comfortable with that situation.  Then I met my "twin" and mentor, and made a best friend of a co-worker.  We started off just friendly co-worker/mentoring type situations but it expanded as we found more and more we had in common.  Due to her position we had to be very aware of appearances and agreed that anything confidential was off-limits.  We are both too much the professional to do otherwise anyway.  And neither of our bosses thought otherwise from it.  The only time I had it questioned was when I went for an interview for her position.  They made mention that they were sure that I was aware of all the types of situations that can occur in it - to which I responded, No Sir, no more than any other employee in this facility.  (btw, from the time her position was announced we did not meet for lunch or afterwork all in an attempt to keep folks from thinking that we were discussing her position and her giving me hints on how to interview, etc.  No one expected it of us, but we just automatically did that.)



Now that I'm in a new position in a new facility, she and I still keep in contact and share our lives and I wouldn't want it any other way.  Now I'm in the perdicament of starting over and making new friends in a new location, and so far no friendships have started with co-workers - but I'm not counting them out.