Building Friendships

It seems like time is going by so quickly lately. Maybe 'cause I'm getting older or maybe cause I'm getting busier. Days turn into weeks which turn into months and then years. I see the same faces, the same smiles and I look forward to going to work. Not for the job so much as for the community of people I work with.

Many of us have worked with the same people for years and have never really taken the time to get to know them. We get to work at 6, take a break at 9, go to lunch at 11:30, and leave by 3. We get to know our co-workers birthday's, we hear stories of their families, their kids growing up. We share their tears, and their laughter, but only in short time increments.

We are living in uncertain times. Someone gets laid off and it is almost like a death. It isn't the loss of the job so much as the loss of community, the loss of friends.

Now more than ever we need to develop and cement our friendships. We need to get to know each other once more, we need need to celebrate each other's birthdays, retirements, birth of new ones and lifestyle changes. We need to bond as co-workers and grow as communities.

La Villa Basque has a place for that with our Friday Night Community hour, a happy hour to celebrate, unwind, and bond with your co-workers.