Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linconey, where everything we talk

about is related to changing the world of work so that more organizations can be more

effective and less dysfunctional and employees can be more fulfilled and less miserable.

I'm your host Pat Linconey.

I'm joined as always by my co-host Cody Thompson.

How's it going, Pat?

I'm doing just fine Cody and we have two guests in house today.

Karen Amador, a long-time colleague. Hello Karen. Hi. And we've got

Tracy Noble on the mic. Hey there. You're producing and you're on the mic today.

We've got Matthew. Matthew, our engineer in the room too.

Hey there, Matt.

So we are going to talk about what today.

What's our title?

The title is Don't Have Work Friends.

Yes, do not have work friends. Yes, do not have work friends. We're very clear about that, but not

probably in the way you think. What we mean is there's no such thing as a work

friend. They're your friends and we call them work friends and it's a weird thing.

You know when you think about it, work exists for a variety of reasons and purposes.

First we need to make money to support ourselves and our families. That's very clear.

Second, we need to find an outlet for using our God-given gifts. That makes sense.

But we also need life-giving relationships with other people, and there is a word for that, and it's friendship.

But I worry sometimes that too often we see the relationships

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