I don’t know how to continue to work with these people and see them daily, now that I know that none of them are my friends.

We're talking 3 minutes late back from lunch. A few minutes before quitting time. These people are not your friends.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to co-workers reporting tardiness to boss.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My boss let me know that my co-workers have often “told on me,” reporting when I arrive back to work three ...

Jenna may be struggling to assert her new role and is overcorrecting by distancing herself from people she was once close to.

Dear Miss Manners: My boss let me know that my co-workers have often “told on me,” reporting when I arrive back to work three minutes late from lunch or leave a few minutes early (to make sure I took ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My boss let me know that my co-workers have often “told on me ... take her aside and make a fuss over how charmed you are to have her as an adult friend — how she ...

Gentle Reader: Naive Miss Manners never fell for the line that her co-workers should also be her best friends. But then, she ...

I have a co-worker, “Jenna,” who I also considered a close friend — until recently. We’ve worked together for five years, and ...

Why does Miss Manners feel a nagging curiosity about your place in all this -- as if you have a position of more authority in the group than you have mentioned? She agrees with the co-workers who ...