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nommm-nommm on April 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important...

I try not to be friends with my colleagues. Friendly? Absolutely. Friends? No.

ArkyBeagle on April 28, 2016 [–]

"Gladiator, make no friends of gladiators" - roughly from "Spartacus".

Of course, intra-office competition at that level is highly destructive but that's what people are acculturated to.

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