Anyone mix high school / college / work friends together? Still pretty new to the job here.

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Depends. Some high school friends I wouldn’t introduce to my colleagues in a million years.

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Nah, unless you all happen to have something in common. I don't even FB friend current coworkers, but will once I've left the job/role. Kind of a Ron Swanson approach, "I once worked with a guy for 5 years without knowing his name...we still never talk sometimes."

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I would if I had my high school friends in the same city I went to university and work in. I think they’d all get along pretty well

I compartmentalize friends/work colleagues/those I’m dating. These things are NEVER commingled otherwise you have no reprieve from the other. E.g., job sucks?-go out with friends. Can’t do that when friends are also work. B/Gf & you break up and you’re devastated or it’s awkward?-you never have to see them again, that is unless you work with them and or they are part of your friend circle.

Keep it simple. Work is work, friends are friends, and potential mates are potential mates.

I don’t worry about it at all, it’s actually quite simple to maintain. And I have work friends, but they’re just that- work friends, and they aren’t circulated amongst my non-work friends. It all happens rather naturally and I have been told by numerous others that this is “smart” as they’ve had issues with commingling.

Don’t mix, it becomes too personal

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