Friday open thread: colleagues at work

It has been another exhausting week, but I'm back with a new open thread nonetheless. This prompt is brought to you by the news that my favourite work colleague is heading off for six months on secondment in another department. While I think this is a fabulous thing for him, I'll miss him a lot. We're both Australians of a roughly similar age and outlook, both grew up in Australia but moved (in his case back) to the UK as adults and spent most of our working lives here, and whenever we're in the office together we have endless conversations about pop culture, and Australian, British, and global politics.

He's probably the only colleague I relate to in this way — for the most part I prefer to keep a firm line between work and the social and personal. Polite pleasantries and professionalism with work colleagues, with my social life and access to my emotions and personal thoughts kept to ... well, my friends (both online and off) is my preferred setup.

The above is basically my answer to this week's question: how do you relate to your work colleagues, if you have colleagues? I realise that people may not want to talk about the specifics of their work on Dreamwidth, and if that's the case, please feel free to talk more about your preferences in this regard rather than the actual specifics.

I hope everyone is going well.

Your voice — it had that perfect flow/ it got lost when you gave it up though

I have to link you all to this gloriously, hysterically kooky interview with Grimes, in all her anime fangirl, AI conspiracy theorist, batshit glory.

I've been a fan of Grimes' music since my then-boyfriend introduced me to it in a playlist more than a decade ago, and I still think Art Angels is an absolutely fantastic album. Grimes as a person ... not so much.

The interview is an exquisite piece of journalism. I don't know whether to describe it as giving its subject enough rope, a hatchet job, or what, but reading it was certainly a trip!