Anyone else not have friends at work? How does it affect you? Joined large co in a newly-created VP-Legal position about 1 yr ago after 10+ years at regional small co (2 lawyers, everyone was in the same building-about 40 ppl; crap co, but had real friends). I now support entire country and I have zero interaction with people in my building (100+). 2 days nominally in office-but I do not work with anyone there. At all. Clients are great, but no “friends”-all on zoom. Lonely.

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I’ve been at my job for about a year. Everyone is really nice but I’m the only lawyer. Going from a office of 500+ lawyers to not having anyone else there who understands how I think about things is the worst part.

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I am in office two days a week, home three days. I don’t have any “friends” per se, but have a couple people Im “friendly” with. Im the sole in house labor/employment atty at our company. I don’t do any of the substantive legal work for our day to day business, so don’t work with any of the other attorneys. I just advise HR/EEO management. In my own silo. Been there 8 months. Didn’t even get a lunch invite or anything on my first day/welcoming. Im also a new role, and a lot of people don’t think my role should exist (we also have a large union presence.) I am not there to make friends, but it certainly makes the day to day grind easier. I feel what you’re saying. Most jobs I’ve had a good crew of coworkers and good banter, lunches, happy hours etc.

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Pretty much in the same situation, sole labor and employment attorney working with HR everyday and just working individually

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You’re not alone. It’s tough and sometimes awkward to make work friends. Sounds like you may be in a situation where you need to take the lead yourself and make a conscious effort to initiate. Hopefully you will find some genuine and worthwhile friendships.

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And all the folks in my bldg are not clients-they do different work.

Same here. Work remote mostly but were in house counsel so we aren’t invited to the cool social things unless it’s a firm wide event lol. Will randomly bump into people at bars but that’s very rare.

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I don’t but I also don’t want work friends. I’ve seen how breaking down that boundary can go very badly.

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