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In a weird turn of events, a local woman is catching up with someone she worked with in 2008.
Kate (32) says her husband Antonio doesn’t understand friendship that isn’t formed around sport or high school, and has given up explaining why she’s putting so much energy into a bond that was formed around bitching about her old boss in the first job she had after uni.
As is commonly acknowledged in the HR sector, work-friendships is taken much more seriously by Australian women, due to the fact that their are not paralysed by a toxic culture of machoism that sees their male counterparts unable to connect with anyone unless it is someone they’ve known since they were kids or someone they’ve been drunk with like eight times.
“We’ve both been really busy. This is long overdue” Kate tells her husband.
“Sorry that I keep in touch with my account managers”
However, it’s hard to deny Kate’s friendship with Karly is actually kind of random, considering they always go to rather swanky restaurants, and only really talk about everyone they used to work with.
Kate even denies there is even a professional networking element to the catch up.
“She’s a friend okay”
“This is long overdue”
“She’s going to tell me about her new apartment. It’s near where we used to work”
