Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)

Subject: Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)
From: Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 07:58:49 -0400

I think the emphasis is more on extremes -- folks who can't
relate to people at all at work vs. folks who do nothing
but. Lots of healthy balances exist along the spectrum between
the two :)

A.

--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
mailto:alexiap -at- sems -dot- com

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>From: Cathy Krusberg[SMTP:ckberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM]
>Sent: Saturday, July 26, 1997 12:00 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)
>
>Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- seagatesoftware -dot- com> wrote:
>
> [in a list of "good" interview questions]
>
>>Tell me about your friends at work.
>>(Avoid people who don't make friends at work [anti-social] and
>>those who use work as a means of making friends [social
>>butterflies]. Most of us fall in between these two
>>extremes. I made the mistake of hiring one person at each
>>extreme....)
>
>Is it really considered such a bad thing not to make friends
>at work?

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