Admit it, we all have a favorite person to work with at our jobs. I met my best friend at my very first part-time job. Continuing through the hectic holidays hours, overbearing managers and aggravating customers seemed like a drag until I realized how great it was experiencing all that with my partner in crime. It just shows how everything, including your deadbeat job, is simply better with your best friend.
#1) Easy (and Obvious) Topics of Conversation
“How was work tonight?” “Are you ready for work later?” Opening conversations with your best friends who also happen to be your coworkers are casual at first since you both know how each other is feeling if the roles were reversed. You genuinely care how work was and how busy it was. Having this in common is probably one of the reasons why you guys are so close.
#2) Gossip is Confidential and Easy to Observe
“So I found out (womanizing male coworker) and (shy newly employed female coworker) hooked up.” “Did you know (couple within the team) had a huge fight last night?” “The new guy is super cute!” These are just a couple things that you and your work best friend also talk about. That, and also how much you both probably hate your manager at that moment. Whether it’s good gossip or bad gossip, you can always count on your work best friend to be on the same page as you since you know exactly who the other one is talking about.
#3) There is No Mercy When You Need a Work Favor
“Take my shift, you owe me!” “Go in for me and open. I’m feeling worse than you are today.” Asking for work favors is as blunt as asking a sibling for a favor around the house. It’s more of a demand rather than a favor. So you’re either perfectly okay with that and agree or be as blunt back and say “no.” Either way, your friendship does not change.
#4) Conversations Can Be Had Just By Facial Expressions
Whether you show up to work feeling not so great from the night before or your manager just said something really misogynistic or dumb, you and your best friend are already reading each other’s mind based on your expressions. It makes the entire word day worthwhile knowing someone absolutely understands what you are thinking.
#5) Getting Scheduled Together=Best Day Ever!
Every week when the schedule comes out, you look for one thing: who you’re working with. When you see you and your best friend both working the same shift, you wonder what your scheduling manager was even thinking, but you’re thrilled regardless.
#6) You Both Get Stuff Done
Since you and your best friend have such a strong-willed friendship and you are both hard-working, independent and confident, working together is a full adrenaline rush filled with power and confidence. Tasks are completed efficiently and in an orderly fashion. You both respect each other enough to be blunt and boss each other around without taking it personally. There’s also no such thing as a power struggle between you two since as far as you see it, you’re both equal.
#7) There’s Always Someone to go to Work Events With
Once everyone at your job becomes close, you’ll find yourselves hanging out most of the time so you’re going to want to go to these shindigs with your best friend. It’s easy for you guys to be dubbed as a “dynamic duo” and “attached by the hip,” but you wouldn’t have it any other way.
#8) It Makes Your Boring Part Time Job Pretty Great
You’re genuinely grateful for your job for bringing you even closer to your best friend. As much as the stresses of your job may weigh you down, you can always count on your gal pal to be on the same page as you. Whether it’s bonding through hectic schedules, ruthless customers, unreliable managers and coworkers or your mutual feelings of love or hate for what you do, your best friend is your partner in crime through it all.