Misery Loves Company: Work Friendships | What About Your Friends?

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Erika and Steven start the conversation about misery-bonding with coworkers by recounting their experiences in service and retail and how shared experiences with customers and managers helped to create friendships in the workplace (0:30). Then they dig into some listener mail on the topic of childhood friendships. Finally, Erika is joined once again by writer Julian Kimble to talk about the pop culture influences around hating work and bonding with your coworkers, including ‘Office Space,’ ‘The Office,’ ‘Telemarketers,' ‘The Bear,’ and ‘Mad Men’ (22:15). If you have any thoughts or stories about misery-bonding with coworkers, email us at [email protected]. Hosts: Erika Ramirez and Steven Othello Guest: Julian Kimble Producer: Sasha Ashall Theme Music: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Mallory Rubin and I am thrilled to tell you that House of
0:03.8	R has a new podcast feed. Joanna Robinson and I will now be with you twice a
0:08.0	week with more of the deep dives you've come to know and love on the
0:10.6	ringerers. In addition to exploring all of your favorite
0:13.4	nerd culture new releases, we'll have nostalgic revisitations, height
0:16.7	meters, polyfame inductions, tropes courses, drafts, and more. All bad babies
0:21.2	are welcome as we dive into Star Wars, Marvel, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings,
0:24.7	and beyond. Follow the new House of R feed on Spotify or wherever you get your
0:29.0	podcast. Welcome back to what about your friends, a podcast dedicated to the
0:37.3	many lives of friendship and house portrayed in pop culture. With me on this
0:41.1	week's episode is my co-host and BFF Steven Othello. And our returning guest
0:47.5	writer and former colleague Julian Kimball. And we're exploring hating your
0:53.2	quote-unquote 9-5 alongside your work friends. It's it's good energy though, good vibes.
0:59.6	So let's first start by checking our hearts. How's your heart doing today Steven?
1:05.0	What color are we feeling? Oh man. I feel like the color is like just like a
1:11.2	green. My heart is in a it's in a space of growth because I've been able to I
1:18.0	I guess through my challenges these past few weeks I've been able to see the
1:21.6	growth that I've came to these past few years like I feel like the work that
1:26.8	I've been putting in is actually showing. So I'm in the green space right now.
1:32.7	How about you? Oh first congratulations because you know we all know growth can
1:37.4	be very uncomfortable. So I'm proud of you. Thank you. This journey your mental
1:42.9	health journey has I've been privileged to be a part of it and to see your
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