The Sims 3

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Working Friends

Working Friends

Become best friends with your boss and all of your co-workers.

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How to unlock the Working Friends achievement in The Sims 3 - Definitive Guide

To unlock the achievement Working Friends, you will have to get best friends with your boss and all your co-workers.
The way I got this was to enter the music career, once I had started the career I only had one co-worker to become best friends with and then my boss.

Becoming best friends with your co-worker and your boss is not much of a chore. If you want to get the achievement for getting level 5 in a career, you might aswell do it now since every time you go to work. You can choose to chill with musicians (After meeting them) which improves your relationship with them, you will also get opportunities during your career which will improve your relationship with your boss.(And also go towards the achievement for completing 10 opportunities).

However the quickest way is to just invite your co-worker or boss to your home and keep on doing nice interactions with them. After you have become best friends with your co-worker and your boss the achievement will unlock.
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06 Nov 2010 21:27

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A tip you may want to add onto your guide, btw, is getting the Office Hero Lifetime Reward. It roughly doubles the speed relationships at work improve.
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By Owlowiscious on 13 Nov 2010 05:30
FYI. I got this achievement without even having a job, and I'm not sure how, so there may be a glitchy way to get this earlier. I'd had a job before (part time at the bookstore) but never join a career, and I had quit the bookstore in favor of just growing/selling vegetables for money. I was chatting up someone to get the BFF achievement, and as soon as it popped, I got both BFF and this one for some reason.
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By risseless on 28 Dec 2010 21:49
I was having trouble unlocking this achievement for some reason. I was already old friends with a co-worker and my boss, was in the music career as well. However, I didn't become best friends at the same time with the co-worker and boss, after awhile they'll turn into old friends. So to counter this I was mean/rude to them till the status was a friend and then rebuilt the relationships back to best friends and sure enough the achievement popped.

Thought this might help if people are having trouble. Thanks for the solution!
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By RaajTM on 07 May 2011 09:44
Thanks RaajTM. I became Old Friends with my boss before I go to best friends with the other (Business Career.) Tried and tried to get rid of the Old Friend tag. I'll try your method.
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By Ginuwine AI3 on 23 Jan 2012 21:03
Aw man just my luck dude retires from Military. Dang it Batman can't have co-worker friends D:
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By A Batwoman on 27 Sep 2014 07:38
FYI, there's no point to specifying music. All careers have only one coworker (I thought I was unusual when I chose criminal and only had one coworker, but when I changed to culinary after maxing out crim, I found out I was wrong). And all careers have the option to talk to coworkers/boss at work (though it goes by different names depending on the career). Same for opportunities.

Otherwise, good guide for getting it legit. Just wanted to clarify that it doesn't matter if you pick music or not.
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By Owlowiscious on 13 Nov 2010 05:29
I think the reason this is glitchy is because people move between jobs / become unemployed but the game doesn't track it properly. One of my sims started a job in journalism with William Conner as the boss and Hannelore Landgraab as a co-worker, but within one sim day, William had been made unemployed, Hannelore became the boss and Casie Callahan joined as the new co-worker.

I made Hannelore and Casie best friends, but the achievement didn't pop. So I was rude to casie until they became normal friends again and worked her back up to best friend. Still nothing. So finally, I wondered if the game considered William still part of the same company and made him a best friend as well and the achievement popped instantly.

Might be worth keeping an eye on who leaves the company you're working with and/or trying to make best friends out of a few different sims in the relationships tab if you're having trouble.
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By Triblade on 11 Nov 2012 17:42
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This is a very easy way to obtain the cheevo with doing almost nothing. All i did to obtain this cheevo is go to work. It should'nt matter where you work (I was a criminal). When you go to work & the icon comes up push the B button.Then push the A button when you're on your icon & a list should pop up. You should have some type of options to suck up to your boss & hang with coworkers. Simply alternate between these two options everyday for about an in game week (maybe a little longer) & watch the green friend bar fill up. I never once had to invite them over or learn any of thier traits. Not sure if you have to level up a few levels in your job to hang with coworkers, but I don't think you have to. You just have to meet them first, which is an option from the list when you first get your job. (takes a half day of work to meet them i believe) do this before you're a level ten & before you become an old friend to either one. You should only have a boss & one coworker to befriend at any job you choose. Very simple. Hope this helps. Enjoy!!!
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If you become "old friends" with one of them do you either have to change career or start a new sim to get the achievement or is it still possible?
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By KingyOwl on 25 May 2014 22:16
I got this achievement in no time at all really...all I did was create a new sim with all the friendly traits such as "flirty", "friendly", "charismatic" etc and moved her into to a house. A wish popped up that my sim wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement and so I read the paper and got her the job she wanted.

In every job there is 1 boss and one co-worker. In this case, my co-worker was my partner. Once I had started work, I used the drop down list on the left hand side, (that indicates what kind of day you will have), and I picked "Chat with co-worker". This built up my relationship with the co-worker pretty quickly.

I also made sure I invited them round every so often to chat and this helped too.

If you get any opportunities from work, they help to build you relationship with your boss too!

Good Luck :)
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12 Apr 2013 05:49

I'll be honest I am pretty sure this achievement is glitched, I got it many many times before it actually hit for me. Just make sure that you are best friends with all your co-workers before you hit level 10 of the career (since you don't have a boss really at that point).

It's not hard, find out who they are invite them over all the time etc etc... Like I said that I think it's glitched I was best friends with all my co-workers with various sims before I ever got this one.
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10 May 2011 09:18

To become best friends with your boss and co-workers you're first going to have to find out who they are. Since you don't actually see your sim during work the only way to see who your co-workers are is by pressing and going to the relationships tab. From there push until you get to the work portion of the relationships tab. Now that you know how many people there are and who they actually are you can invite them over to your house so that you can talk to them.

You can invite them over to your house, throw a party and invite them or talk to them over the computer. Do anything that will help you two interact and become friends. Use friendly conversation options and play to your social advantages. If you're a funny then tell more jokes for example. Continue talking to these people until the game tells you that you're best friends. Once you're best friends with one of them move onto the next one. Be careful though because if you don't talk to a person in a while you can lose their friendship. Get to the best friend relationship status with all of your co-workers and you'll unlock the trophy.

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You can check the people you work with by going to your friends tab and then filtering to the work tab. The easiest career I found to do this was the business career because you can get this achievement while your at work. While at work press than press and a menu will come up showing all the options you can do while at work. Choose to meet co-workers and after you have met them pick either "Suck up to boss" or "Chat at water cooler" and after a while you will become best friends with your boss and co-workers. At other work places there is also an option to socialize while you are working.

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