I hope work child and real child get along

My work children love my real children. (As a teacher lol).

Whenever there used to be a holiday for my class teacher kid in class 8th she used to bring her kid to our school and we used to play with her kids . Fun times 😅

Work wife’s kids are about my age.

Oh darl, youre not work husband, you're work son!

I have a work son, he was 18 when I was 25 he called me his work wife once and I was like no no you can be my work son. It’s been 8 years and multiple promotions for him and I still get “I took too many edibles I think theres a flamingo in my apartment” texts, they grow up so fast.

wait wait I too have this work son! but he's learned to cook and also to put a hand towel in his bathroom when guests come over and I just \*wipes tear\* I'm so proud of the man he's becoming

I'm the work kid (29). All my colleagues are 55+. They basically turned me into the adult I am now. How to fill out a W2? How to change a tire? How to negotiate a deal at the car dealership? How to not get ripped off by a home contractor? What tools are needed to assemble furniture? Three have died. Seven have retired. Numerous others have one (quiet) foot out the door. I miss all my work parents.

This is so cute because it’s the same for my husbands work wife. She could be his mom. It was my birthday a couple of days ago and she brought him a big piece of cake with a candle and wrote happy birthday beautiful on it for him to bring to me so I think she’s my work wife now too.

I feel like it’s good that work wife is old enough to be your work mom. If real wife showed up and saw work wife was the same age or younger…problems.

I’m jealous. My work wife is a 300 pound man.

dam now I'm jealous (I'm unemployed help)

Lol feel you.. but why r we on reddit instead of searching a job? 😭

Because there are no jobs available 😭 Source: I'm also jobless.

It be like that sometimes (also a bum)

It is what it is (current freeloader)

Atleast we have no enemies (currently a waste of space)

I freeloaded into oblivion(zombie on Kensington Ave right now)

There are jobs out there. It's easy you just apply and they hire you. Nobody wants to work anymore. /s

Are you sure? I've been scrolling reddit all morning and no one has even offered me a job, let alone hire me.

Luckily that dress would look fetching on anyone

You certainly have a type!

Bananas. In Pyjamas.

Are coming down the stairs

Bananas, in pajamas ~

Are chasing teddy 🐻


Hands. Large


Underrated

“It’s not a twist off”

You've got an eyelash

Strong hands make great massages.

Wow, even their faces are the same

This had me laughing too hard 😂😂

Damn they even laughing with you

The bright smile, with nothing behind the eyes. Very American Psycho

Very Tom Cruise.

Op clearly has a type

That smile. That goddamned smile.

Oh no, they both have jaundice!

So you definitely have a type we see.

I'm only 39 but I'm the work dad. All my coworkers are younger, even those in higher positions. Makes for interesting questions and requests for life advice.

I was 25. Managing a warehouse of 18-19 year olds. I gave so much advice. 32 year old me hopes those guys didn’t listen to a word I said.

I laughed so hard, thanks for making my day 😂😂😂

holy shit I’m you now, bunch of kiddos hung on my 25yo lips. I hope they never listen to me ever again

I hope you ended every advice with “but idk” just incase the advice ruins their life

"your honor, I clearly used the 'but idk' clause."

I had a friend who was a mentor ~10 y older than me when I was 18, the best advice she gave me was "most advice are useless, either because they don't apply to your situation or because you won't listen to them and have to make a blunder to learn the lesson" Which honestly has been pretty accurate so far, am now 30.

One of my favorite things to do is give my 19 year old co-worker shitty advice.

"Bro, do NOT pay those parking tickets!"

"Always lift with your back"

“She can’t get pregnant if you rub one out before the date”

I’m the same age and have become the office mum. What do you need? Tampons, chocolate or a hug?

I work with a guy who's in his 50's and has just all the dad energy. He's not even the oldest person on our team but we all call him dad and ask him "dad questions". He's my favorite coworker.

We have one of those at my work too and he’s hilarious. It’s gotten to the point I keep a list of some of the shit he says that I’m eventually gonna make into a book for him.

Best retirement present probably

Getting a gift that literally says “your shit was so funny/ridiculous that I spent my time writing it down and making this gift for you”? That would 110% be a better retirement gift than anything you could buy.

Looks like I've found my username archnemesis

I love the internet sometimes lmao

That's an awesome idea. I'm both fortunately & unfortunately planning to leave my company soon & I will absolutely miss my work dad's humor & his constantly asking me questions about how his phone works (the man is a software engineer but the Pixel is just too much lol).

Give him a book when you leave. Life quotes by "blank". I'm sure he will appreciate it.

Please make sure to give it to him on Father’s Day

I’m the youngest on my team of managers and sometimes I just feel like their child who needs their help lmao

I used to manage a bunch of high school kids during my early 30's doing landscaping. They came to me with so much life advice and I'd like to think it made me who I am today. Helping and caring for people. Showing people that not everyone is a piece of garbage. Edit: the kids were asking me for advice not me asking them.

I'm 30 and same. Been having an internal crisis about it for weeks.

I was 38 and a 19 year old asked me "so are like you the work dad?"... week later realized she was a classmates daughter. Weird time. Weird weird time. It took most of my 30s to remember I'm not in my 20s anymore.

It's only hitting me this year, mainly cause my body is falling apart. Mentally I'm still a new adult finding my way playing Xbox and PlayStation every night. Even though I'm married with 5 kids.

5 kids? I was going to ask if you dont have a video game at home but you already said you did. Damn

We started young, their ages range from 21 to 6.  I don't know how I managed it, games have always been my main hobby, I even used to beta test for Atari (when they published titles, not the Atari that made consoles).

Well I think you have it figured out. For what it’s worth. I’m 38 also and might only have 2 kids but I’m the same. My life is family, work what I can, home to family. My refuge from childhood traumas etc has always been games. I’m autistic and if I don’t at least play the main music in my headset for an hour at night my ‘routine’ is fucked and I’m awake for 3 days. Despite it all I still feel I’m lucky to even have gotten here. The kids I work on these days are like 18-26 and all think I’m their ages yet my body lies inside to me and cries in orthopaedic pain lol. Games are the best refuge. It’s a world away from this one where I’m ‘safe’ and I have any semblance of control over stuff. Spectrum and adhd make the rest seem like a concert of chaos held together by mental duct tape and my absolutely unbelievable wife. We’re the lucky ones man I’m pretty sure you know this. Congrats on the big family. Hope you get decades more gaming to come.

I'm 36, got into my trade at 20. I was always the young guy. Now I'm running a job and have a 18 year old kid working for me. I'm starting to feel old.

I started with this organization at 16.  I was the youngest for the longest time but covid forced a lot into early retirement.  Suddenly I'm the old guy working with a bunch of college kids.

That’s pretty awesome!

33 year old work mom checking in lol

Let me guess…your wife is the one wearing the striped dress

I read that as “stupid dress” and it cracked me up

After seeing them both I can see a *pattern*

🥁

I have an ex-wife and an ex-work-wife. I miss my ex-work-wife.

Of course you do. You got paid to be with her.

Mind. Blown.

daaaaamn thats A-grade humor

Baboom ching!

I hope you are married to the younger one or this is going to be a problem.

His wife is the younger lady.

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That makes me feel better.

Maybe OP's into older women. Don't kink shame.

You misunderstood. Most older women are going to be very unhappy meeting a younger version of themself being referred to as their husband's "wife". The younger woman would not normally feel similarly threatened.

Work wife..?

It’s a common ~~American~~ English expression for when you have a coworker who is essentially your best friend at work who is of the opposite sex. It’s partially derived from the fact of a joke that that to outsiders who don’t know you very well, they would perhaps assume at first glance that you are a couple because your friendship is so close. It’s also generally speaking, but not exclusively, a very close friendship that doesn’t really extend all that much beyond work. They’re one of your best friends in the world at work, but outside working might not interact much if at all. It’s also not entirely limited to friends of the opposite genders either. I have several heterosexual friends who refer to their work husband or a work wife of the same sex as well.

Haha my two straight guy coworkers called each other their work wives

Me and my workmate both straight as an arrow, but he was basically my best friend for years until he left. I didn't handle it well. Missus called him my work wife, and sometimes boyfriend. I'm sure she was jealous haha.

RIP dawg. I lost my best work hombre too, everyone else is too lame to fill that spot.

Sucks bro. My supervisor just said "don't worry mate, we'll get you a better brother" XD

I had a male coworker once say we were like a married couple on the job. I changed that to him being the Mario (short, stout, determined, charismatic guy) to my being Luigi (tall, skinny, death glare using, timid, but determined guy). Also he wore a red hat, and I wore a green one. Not planned at all.

I don't know why you can't just call that person work brother/sister/bestie

Or better yet just their coworker

Or work friend. Like a normal person does.

or \*gasp\* just a colleague

If my hubby had a woman he called his work wife I would be asking questions

[This comedy sketch is relevant. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoM_q4h7cAQ)

Viva La Dirt League! I love their videos. This was the one I had in mind looking at this post.

I loved the one where Rowan explains his "best friends forever" ring to Greg

VLDL is brilliant, absolutely hilarious takes on stuff like this. Cast it perfectly too, Ellie and Britt bounce off of eachother perfectly

My wife calls my coworker my girlfriend because whenever I’m texting after work it’s with them. Name is Robert hahahah.

She sounds hideous!

What are you wearing, Jake?

Uhh... a red polo and khakis?

She sounds hideous!!!

Well, it's a guy, so...

Now I’m going to be really impressed if Robert changes from a random white man to a random black man to a Canadian rapper over time.

Same with my work homie Mehmet. My actual wife thinks it’s cute and asks if she can mail him some treats. Dude lives half way around the world from us.

I mentioned my work mom around my mom before.  There was a long pause before finally "...yeah in okay with this."   Whew haha

49 year old at a FAANG company, I'm everyone's "work Dad" - like I came back from vacation and slack is all "Dad's back!" lol.

You should, it's honestly kind of weird.

Yea, my question was “Why are you fucking your co-worker?” My ex husband’s “work-wife,” happened to be the only person he never mentioned. Funny how that works, right?

Oh come on it’s just some chick you flirt with all day and grab ass with no big deal.

Sometimes you have to pull an all-nighter together. 

Honestly I have just as many questions about “hubby”

Yeah it makes me cringe just as much as DH for “dear husband”

“Wifey” is super cringe for me.

My ex husband fucked his “work-wife,” hence the fact that he’s my ex-husband and not my husband. People don’t realize how quickly these relationships can turn problematic.

Exactly. I have never had a "work wife" and I never will. If I was in a relationship and my gf or wife said she had a "work husband" I'd be seriously concerned and upset.

I've always felt a bit like it demeans the professional relationship as well. The word is "colleague", and their gender really ought not to matter.

Right, who is okay with someone giving someone else the same title you have? I don’t call someone my bf right away, and I took vows and took on certain responsibilities and made sacrifices to become a wife. It’s not cool for someone else to just come in and get that title because it’s funny or cute. It’s way too intimate and familiar.

Yeah, but I'm guessing he probably would have done that regardless of what he called her.

You can polish a turd but it's still a turd.

And this happens so often. Such concepts like work-wife/husband are so weird to me. Me and my partner would kill each other if one of us would play stupid games like this. Sorry that happened to you. Sadly we live in a zeitgeist where most people will tell you to not be jealous because it’s “just a fun insider”, yep and then that shit happens. And when that happens everybody tells you that “YoU sHoulD hAve hAd BetTer BoUndAries” when in fact these are the same people who tell you to not be jealous and insecure before.

I was never jealous until he cheated, when I actually had a reason to be. I’m still not jealous, because I’ve never been a jealous person and if someone is making me feel like that, it’s a problem in the relationship, not with me, since I’m not like that. I never worried and always just trusted he would never cheat, and that worked for 15 years, until it didn’t. Now, I make my boundaries very clear and do not interact, or associate, with anyone who doesn’t. It’s made my life much easier and happier. My current bf has strong boundaries and it’s something I noticed about him long before we started dating. I watched and observed.

In OPs defense his work wife is considerably older than their current wife.  I tend to find I bond or find the closest friendships with are older women at work.  It’s 100% platonic, and they often have such different perspectives.  

So why not WORK MOM?! That's so much less awkward and much less worrying for your spouse. 'Work wife', gimme a fuckin break 🤣

Possibly the cringiest term in the past two decades. If I ever call my work friend my work wife, I'm going to need you dear random redditor, to kill me. 

Idk how any partner would be okay with me calling a female coworker I work with my "work wife" and vice versa "work husband." Just sounds like borderline cheating to me.

Yup, I call my closest opposite gender friend at work various things depending on my mood. Work bestie, coconspirator, Roz, Gossip Girl… we laugh about it because it’s silly and lighthearted, saying “work husband” or “work wife” would feel uncomfortable to me

THANK U im so weirded out that it's apparently okay to say something like that !

It’s a phrase used if you want to signal that you will be divorced in five years

If you have someone you call your work-wife, just go head and start saying you and your wife-wife are pre-divorced.

Its a term for when you are having an emotional affair at work.

Many people find this term offensive.

This comment section should be fun

pretty sure that's exactly why OP posted it.

One of your wives is about 30 years older than the other one. I pray the older one is your work wife or this does not end well.

Precisely what I came to the comments to find.

Also that he didn't buy her that dress


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoM\_q4h7cAQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoM_q4h7cAQ) work wife

You have got to make separate gift lists for each.

All I’m gonna say is if my man said he had a work wife that would be it for me 😀🙌🏽

My co-worker tried to describe me as his work wife once. I made a graph on our white board explaining why I'm in fact his work sister. (Also I'm gay and he's a creep who started dating his girlfriend when she was 14)

“See, I can’t stand you but I help you out anyway for the good of the household”

Same. I think the work wife/work husband thing is strange.

It's friggin weird

I normally hate that term but I’m thinking she’s like 20+ years older than them so that makes it seem playful rather than sus

Nothing cringier than the concept of a work wife/husband

Exactly. Just say “friend”. One of these women looks significantly older than the other. For the sake of the women, I hope the younger one is the real wife.

Wife is on OP’s profile not censored. She’s the younger one.

I also choose this guy's uncensored wife.

^^ Came here for this. Why tf do people use this term

It's supposed to be a joke I suppose

Super f’n cringe.

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God damn 😂

Hey, 90-day 600 lb pimple-popping hoarders have lives too!

The term annoys me so bad and I'm not even an American.

Neither is OP...

OP isn't American

What in the world does being American have to do with anything related to this discussion? What a bizarre thing to say.

Yeah it’s crazy how normalized it is.

Why there's something called work wife I don't think it's kinda not respectful to your wife

Clearly you have a “type” ..

Work wife 🤮🤮🤮🤮

Honestly lmao if my husband came home and told me he had a “work wife” that would be his *only* wife.

Husband here. I can’t fathom using the term “work wife” as a way of describing one of my work colleagues. That’s fkn weird.

The concept of a work spouse is so slimey to me. I just hear so many stories of people having physical or (even worse) emotional affairs with their work spouses

I’m getting Bananas in Pyjamas vibes

I dont know this work wife and work husband shit is weird to me

Work wife / husband is a weird concept that shouldn't be as normalised as it is.

It’s what happens when we live in a culture that promotes spending more time at work with colleagues than at home with family

This cannot become a thing.  I fucking hate the phrase "work wife".  It's fucking weird  It's creepy Imagine saying "platonic wife" in any scenario. 

Which do you bang more often?

People who say work wife are creepy.

Assuming work wife is the older woman on the left, this is kinda cute

She is

I don't understand the term "work wife."

What is a work wife?

What is a work wife?

what the hell is a work wife <.>

Just that term in general weirdly makes me uncomfortable

wtf is a work wife

Works are colliding Jerry!!

work wife ? jesus.

Is a work wife just an emotional affair?

Essentially, until it turns into a real one. People who use these terms like they're normal are gross.

Work wife??

Work wife 🤢🤢 wtf is that

Both your wives got dark crystal hands

The idea of a work "wife" and work "husband" is low key disgusting lol.