8 Signs Your Favorite Coworker Has Become Your IRL Best Friend

8 Signs Your Favorite Coworker Has Become Your IRL Best Friend Working with people you like can make the workday go by faster, but working with your best friends can make the workday hardly feel like work at all...most days. If you are one of the lucky few who gets to call your workmates your best buds, youll totally relate to this1. You share a secret language.Youre so in tune with one anothers body language that you can practically conduct full-on meetings across the room without even uttering a single syllable. You can decipher the difference between every smirk and smile, no matter how discreet. Whether youre at the schreibstube or hanging out at happy hour, you know one another so well that the slightest flick of the eyebrow or change in intonation speaks volumes.2. Your email chains keep you going.Coming into work to find a full inbox usually spells chaos...unless you work with your besties. Sending random gifs, Monday motivation, specially selected articles, and of course many , many cat memes to your BFFs happens as regularly as sending a weekly status report to your bossjust dont mix the two up3. You have a safe space to vent.We all know that office gossip can be toxic, but when you work with your best friends, at the end of a hard day you have someone to talk to who will definitely understand your pain. Instead of doling out generic positive platitudes, best friend coworkers can really empathize and give you advice tailored to your exact situation.4. You spend more time together than with romantic partners.You frequently hit double-digit streaks of seeing one another without a second thought. If youre together during geschftliches miteinander hours, after work, weekends, lunch breaks, and the occasional vacation, congratulationsits a work BFF5. Youre a pro at carrying multiple coffees.Its easier to recall the coffee orders of your four closest coworkers than it is to recall the last four digits of your Social. You have an unspoken agreement that a caff eine run for one is a caffeine run for all, and navigating with arms full of hot liquids has become second nature.6. Lunch breaks are never boring.A lot of people have to wait until weekend brunch to gather with their main crew, but your squad convenes five times a week minimum. Lunch breaks are almost like a throwback to high school days, except instead of worrying about whether youre cool enough, youre surrounded by people who make you feel rad all day long.7. Team projects get you pumped.Being on the same wavelength has its professional perks. If youve ever worked on a team with coworkers you dont know well, getting started can be a source of anxiety, and the outcome can be hit or miss. When you have people who mesh with and know are on your side, that fear is alleviated, everyone can make the most out of their own strengths, and meetings are actually painless.8. Their sick days are the WORST.You never realized how long a workday is until they arent there. Did time always move so slowly? Nothing makes you appreciate your work besties more than when they arent around, but when they get better, it feels like the weekend...even on a Monday.--Kayla Heisler is an essayist and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. She is an MFA candidate at Columbia University, and her work appears in New Yorks Best Emerging Poets 2017 anthology.