Workplace Friendships

It is possible to have friends in one's coworkers, regardless of whether there is communication and meeting outside of working hours or workplace-adjacent contexts.  It is even logically possible that one will happen to find a rationalistic person at a given company, though this is very, very unlikely.  Such a person is worthy of special respect, devotion, quality time, and loyalty because their own allegiance would be to the truths of logic that are self-necessary, absolutely certain, supremely foundational, and immutable.  They would be concerned with far more than the petty social construct of professional workplaces and the pursuit of material wealth or status, and thus they, if they are really rationalists, are not fools to lament, manipulate, toy with, or dismiss.

A rationalistic relationship is based on things of inherent veracity and substance.  More than other workplace friendships rooted in circumstances (happening to work at the same company at the same time), these relationships can last solidly even after one or both people depart their jobs.  If it was just based on the circumstantial accessibility of being right next to someone during the workday, after all, then an exit from that workplace would mean the end of the primary reason for the friendship.  More than other coworker relationships, a rationalistic friendship is also based on something transcendent and true in itself, so the basis of the relationship does not disappear when someone leaves a job.

On the contrary, once the convenience of having to be around the other party of a lesser friendship is gone, the friendship will far more likely than not dissipate.  When among non-rationalists, though, there are the added concerns of cautiously revealing professional obstacles, personal information, or philosophical stances, as they might try to use this against you if they, in their drifting irrationalism and probable emotionalistic egoism, think they can somehow benefit, such as by advancing in their career.  While I can never know the contents of other minds (if they exist in the first place), and neither can any being with my human limitations, at least with rationalists, it is enormously less likely that they will ever resort to pettiness, misrepresentation, or asinine priorities.

People can never have the fullest possible relational intimacy, non-romantic or otherwise, without having thorough adherence to a shared worldview, and of course that worldview cannot be valid unless it is true, and in turn it cannot be validly held to unless it is logically demonstrable by self-evidence (as with the truth of axioms and to a different extent one's own conscious existence) or deductive necessity in light of axioms.  The vast majority of people one will meet in the workplace, managers, coworkers, and clients, will all but certainly not be rationalists.  The most they could hope for in their friendships is arbitrary satisfaction based upon emotionalism or pragmatic gain.  They cannot possibly stand on anything of actual demonstrated veracity or significance, or else they would be rationalists.