Your colleagues at work are not your friends.

[Accardo]

Politics at work is so much and that's why I agree to be friendly and stay professional. And what you have in there is your goal to work and earn, go home and provide for your family. Other than that, it's just pure business after all as you get employed and try to get into the ladder of promotion in the company you chose to work for. Whatever is in the office, stays in the office and whatever you've got at home, stays at home. You don't publicize your personal life to your colleagues and just don't mind if they're the first ones to share their private life to you, just get out of their radar.

For the sake of office politicking it's unprofessional to get colleagues to know so much about your life outside the squares of the working environment, whether you are a partying type or someone who loves to spend time alone at home after work, is a private life that should be secured dearly. A coworker could claim being a friend just so you'd assist them advance in position when the time is due, such struggles do backfire a times leaving everybody involved in making such moves in jeopardy and questioning on matters that has to do with double crossing another employee for a supposed friend to get into power.

[Stable090]

There is this mistake that some people make when they work in a company with others make, which is the assumption that their colleagues at work are their friends. With that assumption you find many people becoming too friendly with colleagues that they start sharing personal information and opinions about work to them.

Making friends with your colleague at work is not a bad thing, just make sure you are making friend with a right person, don’t try to make friends with everyone you see, you can just make friends with people you think they are reasonable and are worth being friends with. There is something some people don’t understand, even if you have a friend, you are not suppose to share all your personal problems with them, something’s are suppose to be kept to yourself, someone you call a friend today, might end up being your enemy tomorrow. You only know about your intentions towards people, but you don’t know people’s intention towards you.