I always thought like this: I’m there to work and earn money, not to make friends, not to fake a friendship with any manager. If they fire me, no manager is going to ask me how I’m holding up or what my plans for the future are. What may look like a friendship is all fake.

So many people on here have this mindset, and they’re usually also the ones constantly complaining about how everyone is mean and toxic and excludes them etc lol. Why would you not just treat coworkers as normal people, and if you become friends you become friends? You spend a huge amount of time with your coworkers so it makes no sense to have this attitude. It also assumes that other people have the same attitude of actively not wanting to make relationships.

Have the conversation. Be an actual human being.