I do agree, sometimes it is difficult to chat within work hours because everyone is busy. And when you get older, you have commitments in family, and other plans, etc, getting even more difficult to make friends.

I try to hang out with my colleagues, because i want to make friends and I still have time for that.

But anyways, I felt that you can be a good friend! Felt bad for your colleagues missing the chance to make a good friend. (Sorry if that sounds odd because of my poor English)

That’s really sad. But the important thing is you had good times in the past!

That sounds really sad, did you try to connect with them? I usually try to connect with old friends with festival blessings, e.g. Christmas. This removes the awkwardness for not connecting for too long. Then you can follow up by questions like how things are going.

But I guess sometimes it is really difficult to connect, since people just move on to dofferent stages of their lives.

Yes. I make friends in all my jobs. How about you?

Sounds like you are a good boss! I am sure your direct reports are happy since you obviously care about them.

I am okay with some discount on my salary if I am really happy with my colleagues. We go to work every day, it is important to be happy.

If most of my friends are gone, and the salary is not satifactory, I will definitely quit for higher pay!

I will quit if I don’t feel happy anymore, which most likely because of people. If colleagues I like are all gone, I probably go somewhere else.

Sometimes it might be the salary which causes people to leave.