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I’ve heard it’s unhealthy to not have friends outside of work acquaintances. But I’m introverted enough that 40+ hours of being sociable with people at my job exhausts me to the point of not wanting to be sociable outside of the job. I make friends pretty easily when I’m forced to interact, but I still choose to spend my free time alone. Maybe that’s selfish, but it’s also where I’m most comfortable.

I got ENGAGED to a coworker that I still work with. It was a mutual split, but I haven't moved on after months and she has since started dating someone else (another coworker). Needless to say, I'd agree that it's a bad idea to date a coworker.

It's always best to make friends in a environment that you both enjoy, where it's not forced.

My first real job I hanged out with everyone. Friends with everyone. But this caused rumours....conflicts...drama at work. Now I am an introvert. Lol sad but true.

I am there to work not making friends

I never want to hang out with anyone from work ever

Found your channel through watching Camelot331. I love you and Eric just bullshitting about crazy crap. Subbed immediately. I do graphic art, design & digital printing for a company. Every one I work with is 10-15 years older than me and I have worked at the same place for 20 years. It is also a small business with only about 20 or so people working here. It feels more like a dysfunctional family if that makes sense, LMAO.

I went to my senior prom with a co-worker of mine when I worked at Sears. She was hotter than any of the girls at my high school and we had a great time! Unfortunately she got fired 2 weeks later for stealing from the store along with another co-workers of hers in the Juniors department. She's doing great now.

The one time I invited a Walmart coworker to my house she stole my pink beats headphones. My ex saw her walking down the street with them and she still denied it lol. I told the manager and they told me to grow up so they’re fucking worthless.

Its hard to make friends at work due to the fact that its hard to find someone within your age range with the same interest and hobbies. Even if you do, its not like they have the time to do so.

Real people only have a select few amount of friends, nothing to be ashamed about👍🏼

I always keep my professional and personal life separate, ever heard the saying don’t shit where you eat?

this is old, but such a great video hahaha. also holy hell your style has changed so much and it’s much better!

My best friend met his wife working at walmart. They have been together for 3 years now. They got married in the first 30 days of knowing each other...crazy shit.

I worked at a Neighborhood Market Wal-Mart while I was going through trade school. I got along with all of my managers and coworkers and we all talked about how much we hated Wal-Mart, but none of us really hung out with each other outside of work. This new guy named Cameron came in who worked in a different department, so naturally I didn't go out of my way to talk to him (because I always focused on my work and made accidental work friends along the way.) Anyway, new guy and I crossed paths in the stock room and he said "You seem like a guy who's into metal." And we started talking and getting along. One day he invited me to his apartment because he thought I was really cool. I was hesitant because I like to be home, but I bit the bullet and went to his apartment. Turns out, he played music and showed me some of his work, which was really really good. He had no idea I fiddled with bass and I started learning a song, and he was astounded at what I could do. 3 years later, we're both out of Wal-Mart and in our preferred careers, he became my best man at my wedding, and we just released a single and are working on releasing an album. So as dreadful as it was working at Wal-Mart, the friendship I developed with Cameron was worth it.

Number 1 rule never give your social media to your co worker or your manager never.

Fanta, your smile when you talked about the 1% of people who can break up and remain friends, had me laughing so much. I worked with two people who were in a relationship and would come to work mad at each other and would gripe at each other the entire shift. So awkward, so uncomfortable to be around. ‘How can this get any worse?’ I would think, then they broke up..

I feel the same way, seeing them tomorrow at work. The other side to it is the unwanted possible gossip from people at work from hanging out with them outside of it. I've had many coworkers and one thing I've learned is to never assume how mature they may seem. I had one three years ago that was in his 50's but had the mind of a 10 year old.

These recent videos have really hit home on the situation I deal with at Wal-Mart on a daily basis. Being promoted initially was the first wake up call when I felt absolutely no pride or accomplishment in the news, and there are rants and stories galore, despite feeling like my time hasn't been as wild as others. Don't even get me started on their coming changes.

It's a good point that you've spent all day with them, and although I have hung out with colleagues a few times after work, nothing beats just coming home to some peace and quiet.

Hard to hang out with coworkers when everyone has a different work schedule or other things that take up time. I hung out with people from my last job a few times, but mainly because I was crushing hard on one of them (don't recommend btw). I'm glad I did but it's not like it made a huge difference for me. And I personally need a lot more alone time than most people so agreed 100% on that point.

You have never really talked about your parents your relationship with them? Like did you have to vent to them how much you hated your jobs?

You ever going to do a college chronicles about parties and college stories? We’re waiting for it Fanta.

On the pretending to not know someone part, it's not necessarily a matter of childishness(though if what you said about him before is true then maybe?). Some people, like myself, just don't see much point in putting time and energy into pointless interactions. If a relationship or friendship ends, a nod or base 'hey' might be made depending on the reason it ended but stopping to ask how life is going or other surface level chit-chat really doesn't serve a purpose. If the phases of life and values were still compatible, we'd still be in each other's life.

whether its in relationships in retail or just in general...the majority of relationships suck

All I know is you'll get the most sex from coworkers. More than in college even.

I have to agree. I'm mostly friends with family members like cousins, but I don't maintain friendships because I can't manage the time. I'm mostly a solitary person. I miss spending time with some friends, especially some from school, and college, but oh well. Life gets in the way I guess.

Damn, this was really well put. Thanks, you kinda opened my eyes to this whole nebulous and yet obvious kind of terminology. Always enjoyed your channel man, keep it up.

I used to hangout with my managers but we were usually of the same mindset, though they tended to prey upon the naivete of the young.

Its a bad idea to date a co-worker especially if she is a plant manager's daughter. I still regret that one and don't even work there anymore.

I think you have summed this up very well. It was pretty much the same for me. I think if you can find a junior high friend, when you were that young, and get to screwing around with them a lot, those are the friendships that can last. I think the problem is that we cling to how easier it was in those days, or so it seemed, but then when we get older, there's a LOT more stuff that people can get interested in, work certainly being one, to where hanging onto somebody is really very difficult. Once the people involved don't have to rely on their parents to drive them from place to place, and often that with great reluctance, there's just so much mobility that it actually does affect the way people behave, and I think it convinces them that people are pretty much disposable. You've been treated like that at the workplace, so contrast that to how the parents and the neighborhood kids treated you in younger years, and I think that's why we sort of cannot understand why all the sudden it seems you cannot latch onto friends any more. It may have a lot to do with staying single too. I lost my two best friends because they got married and I didn't. One told me directly that he couldn't have me around any more (which for some reason sounded logical at the time) while the other burned out within six months after the wedding date, of which I was his best man. Pitiful.

You should talk about things you would see/hear/smell at Wal-Mart on a daily basis

Love the videos keep them coming its great stuff. Good advice like always. My brother drank beer from my high school graduation party that sat around in our garage for 2 whole years. He drank one then poured it into a glass. Yes bud light does get chunky with age. He still drank it the whole 24 pack of beer, not in one sitting, but everytime he did he called it chunky style beer which then became his gamer tag: ChunkyStyleBeer. May that gamer tag live on forever love/miss you bro r.i.p. Warm beer does hit the spot if you are buzzing already heehee😝👍cheers fanta that face you made for the outro right at the end was PRICELESS. I laughed out loud my and i am currently at work watching, Fantafanatic what can say.

When I worked at Walmart for overnights, occasionally we would go to a diner for “breakfast” afterwards. But it’s much different now that I don’t work in retail. Tend to hang out with my coworkers at least once every other weekend or so

I miss Eric’s life advice. I lie to my worthless mother because of him.

I loved the people I used to work with we always went out for drinks, we were a small staff.

In a retail place I once worked, the owner tried to forbid coworkers from forming friendships.

It's like dating someone from your college course - you still have to see them in lectures (except in my case when our splitting up coincided with his spectacular self-sabotage - hence not going to lectures)

I have issues with temporary friendship >u>;; It's hard for me, in fact I don't even think I can comprehend it well. I have acquaintances and close friends. The friends that aren't close I can call friends comfortably, but I don't really think of them when I talk about my friends and don't usually look to them for the support I need, and I'm not as comfortable around them. I think close friendship offers a lot of what I need and want from social interaction in general. Social interaction is work for me (I'm autistic and socially anxious), so I guess being as strongly into the friendship as I am with my close friends without feeling like they're doing the same doesn't appeal to me. I guess it's almost like I can't see putting much energy into it as worth it if I'm not getting much out of it. I don't really think of friendship like a bank account exactly, but I don't wanna waste energy or spoons or whatever on people I can't get what I need from >u>;;

I've made a bunch of friends working in retail. But have also met a bunch of strange people.

I haven't worked a job yet but I'm in community college and me and my friends all go to the same college. Some I've known since elementary and others since high school and a thought that scares me is losing them. I only have a few like 6 I would say and we're all really good and close friends. We're all going to start transferring soon and it really saddens me that we might lose eachother. I've never really had family so these guys are my family and I'm not really that social and I don't like have to build a bond with other people from the ground up and with these guys it's pretty rock solid seeing it now. Anyone else is/was in my situation? Also fanta feel free to use this however you like in your videos and can credit me

Love your videos man ! I think I've listened like 15 hrs of your content and I've just been subbed for a week !

Thanks for the info and storytelling, you are Awesome

Floaters at the bottom are in all wheat beers. Keep calm and float on

Love the still about the show superstore in your thumbnail. That show gets it all right.

Like the Employee of the Month back drop. Were Eric, SBS, and you fighting over Walmart Employee of the Month title to get the Jessica Simpson of the Mart?

If you date a coworker your personal life will be office gossip. You will hear things like "ugh hes such a slob he never does the dishes" "Yeah my GF She thinks shes an instagram influencer with 25 followers" "HE COULD NOT LAST MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES" "She slept with the neighbor while i was on overtime" And when you break up she will gather half of your team to side with her and you gather your half and the entire office has a new game of screwing the other half's performance up.

Oh no, you drank the yee yee juice.

Shouldn't call people worthless, even if they do suck.

FANTAVISION weirdest trade-ins from when you worked at game stops or anything other place you worked that had trade-ins

I try to focus on my personal life outside of work. I just consider the handsome guys at my work. Eye candy for the day!

Someone being a prick to Erick????? Now that's serious. Erick is the GOAT!

I work at an Amazon Fullfilment Center and met some cool people there. I actually hang with them during lunch and see them throughout the day. It’s like 6-8 people but I usually hang around three of them every week. I ended up meeting with them all on Saturday when doing a Pokémon Go walk and met a group of people from a local discord channel along with people walking Downtown Cleveland. I share interests with most of them but that was the most fun I had with people ever. I never had common interests with people that actually wanted to be part of.

it’s so hard to make friends bro. people are so fake nowadays

Fanta, smoking weed every night after work was the only thing that got me through bullshit coworkers and managers. I drink only rarely... marijuana also helps your mind stop racing on those days when you close and then open the next day. Just saying.

I remember thinking it sucked when a work friend quit.

Great video Fanta!

I feel you man. On all points.

I've got 3 friends from work who I hang out with outside of work, but just a little bit. I hope the one doesn't ever "dump" me though, because I get good herb from him. lol

I worked at Wendy's I never hanged out with them cause I just did it like them or cared for I was there for eight years I left in 2015 I could careless I try not to hang out with people from work- at Wendy's we had a big turn over crew people and mangers I was like the oldest crew person there before I left.Every time I go in to work all ways different crew people there and they never trained them I never helped I just stood there not my job to train them it was so funny

There are literally only 3 ppl i hang out with outside of work. They are the only ppl in my phone that dont hav wlmt after their names lol

My wife works in the same store as me but in a separate department but now we are having a “readjustment” she is now my boss lol and Eric is a great name just because I have the same name 😂

My only girlfriends have all been co workers. Lol

Thanks Fanta!

Back on the 360 I played gearsofwar3 against my manager and I killed him a lot fun time's.

Yeah I'm trying to make some friends now but I only talk to my co-workers only and they don't really talk other then work I kinda stick to my self more of the time

Fanta talk about past relationships I think that would be interesting

tbf I have met a few of my best friends from working with them in my retail job

Retail is where I found my ex wife

Have a FANTA-TASTIC day! lol

you ever have a "cable guy" experience with a customer at gamestop?

im curious how old are you dude?

I got all my friends hired at CompUSA so yeah I hung with all my friends cuz I gave them references. I don’t know how we all passed the drug tests tho...

Hello Fanta!

Please continue college chronicles 😀

You know Fanta....hooking uup with co workers after work been happening forever. I like to keep my private life separate from the job. That's just to eliminate confusion. You might see it as.hanging out the other party see it like a date.......besides im into making money.....besides, i have too many friends as is.......but i totally into what yoy saying.....

So how was working at these jobs during fast season and slow seasons

I mean I got with one of my cashiers but she’s seasonal so am I good here? (Edit: update: we have been together for a Year and I am now a armed guard and. She went back to college and our relationship is doing fantastic)

Can you make one about mall Kiosks Salesmen if you haven’t already?

TFR: Pro Day events at GameStop

Please somebody play this video at .5x speed and tell me he doesn't sound like he's drunk AF!!!

Hey Fanta how are you

Yo wtf Fanta are u ok dude? You’ve looked depressed af these past couple videos and even more so now that you’re talking about the friendships you didn’t make. I mean, it’s ok if they left you for someone happier that didn’t work retail shii I wouldn’t hang out with a retail worker either

This guy is going to need a new liver soon with all that drinking he does

This didn't age well

During my retail hell days, I liked my coworkers and hung out with a few of them. There are two former coworkers I still talk to and hang out with today. I never dated a coworker, although there was this one coworker who was a Colombian goddess I wanted to date. Her husband kept getting in the way of the that happening.