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What you talking about is service working. Family is not about someone doing your chores for you. It is about trust and support.

I am not a big fan of calling a job "family", but I prefer having a good trustful and supporting relationship with my coworkers, including being mentored by my boss and mentoring my subordinates. But of course ones talking about family should put their effort and company's money where their mouths are.



> Family is not about someone doing your chores for you. It is about trust and support.

Where I'm from we call those people friends. Family is reserved to those who are willing to actively make a sacrifice for you when you are in need.


Social networks and Facebook in particular are deteriorated term "friend". For me people I can get "don't worry, everything will be fine" type of support are pals, not friends. Gotta try to figure out the difference between real friends and family, but sounds like they are mostly the same, except we may loosen contact with friends, but remain in tight with family.


I'd absolutely make sacrifices for friends and vice versa. Much more so than any relative that is not my direct family with whom I don't have any relationship beyond happening to be somewhat close on a family tree.

It just seems, that the word friendship has been watered down a lot.


> I'd absolutely make sacrifices for friends and vice versa.

Don't hope too much for the "vice-versa", though.


I don't need to hope, I know from experience.


Support comes in many shapes. Sometimes it is about sitting together and sharing things. Sometimes, when you can't get up from the bed, someone helping with unavoidable chores speaks louder than words.




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