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Came home super tired from work today, so I'm just going to make a quick one. Worked a lot this week, and tomorrow's my last day before some days off! I often wonder why some coworkers can be so unbearable. If they spent their whole life acting the way they do at work, I imagine they would be absolutely miserable with no friends or relationships whatsoever. Perhaps this is the case for some of them, which would explain their on-the-job behavior, but it can't be the case for all of them. I have firsthand experience in the past where a friend who I loved hanging out with outside of work became an absolute prick while clocked in. It honestly tarnished the relationship because I couldn't reconcile the difference, and we were never quite the same after that. Ever since then, I don't work with friends. Meanwhile, I've never had the opposite issue because I never really manage to get too close to my coworkers. Maybe I am the problem! I hypothesize that poor workplace behavior stems from people who can't cope with pressure. Work is stressful. You are constantly scrambling around, doing your best to put out little fires, and sometimes it feels like you're in California. People who can't compartmentalize this spend the whole shift sulking and bringing the vibe down or even take it out on their coworkers. All this being said, the coworkers at my current job are my second favorite set of coworkers ever. There are genuinely cool people here, both on and off the clock. Even the real annoying ones seem like good people deep down. They just need to get a handle on those emotions.