"I hope you are well, good weekend etc. and all that BS co-workers write on Monday morning just before they drop a ton of shitty work on you that feels like the hammer of Thor falling just a little to the left of your right nut..."
Co-workers....The classmates of your career path. The ones that make or break your balls, compliments from the heart, filled with genuine appreciation will make your balls. Empty half assed curiosity wrapped in thinly sliced false laughter and shit eating grins will break them.
High-school becomes university becomes job becomes career, becomes university becomes job... rinse wash repeat.
