U dumb poor sod, go make other friends outside work, 

Edit ita freaking hard to get over it it might take years if you let it linger

I'm sure you have your hopes up that she'll eventually want to be more than friends, you obviously want that too and I'm sorry to say that until you meet some new women and get a new interest, you'll probably keep trying and failing which could drag on for years. It's a sad situation to be in and I'd suggest you try not to spend too much time with her and try to meet new people, you don't have to shut her out completely but don't try to be her best friend or anything, you'll just fall deeper into misery. Once you do meet someone else you are interested in, you'll actually see her as just a friend too and then the friendship will actually be real and mean a lot more.

As hard as it sounds you need to move on. Sure you can still be friends but not the way you want it to be. If you continue to hang out and make time for her, you are only going to be hurting even more. She won't come around or change her mind if that's what your goal is by continuing to hang out with her. I think everyone's been there done that at least it has happened to me.
Stop hanging out on the regular, and start looking for someone else. Even if you aren't busy tell her that you are and don't respond to her text messages so fast. Let her think about you and how she will lose you.

Getting over a romantic interest, crush, or whatever you want to call it is always hard.  Always.  But, it still has to be done.  

Once you've been placed in the friend zone, there is basically no chance of getting out - unless you blow this chick off and/or find someone else. 

You don't need to be mean.  And, you damn sure don't announce "I'm not going to hang out with you anymore....", or anything like that.  You just stop trying to hang out with her.  If she hits you up, take a long time to respond to her message, ignore most calls, or whatever, then say you're busy.  

If you meet a new girl, that just makes it all much better.  Then you're in demand, and you're off the market.  Plus, you have a new chick.  

At the end of the day, remember that people tend to want what they can't have.  So, if you're super available to her, your value is low.  The less available you become, the higher your value.  

Still, it's unlikely you'll get out of the friend zone.  But, by trying these techniques (which are time tested, and really the only options that exist for getting out of the friend zone), you have a shot.  And, in the process, you'll get over her and move on anyway.  

Yup.

My code is that if you spend some more time with her, some, not a lot, knowing you're only going to be friends, if your feelings stick around for the most part, your best bet is to give her reply of, "I just want to be friends", with a late reply of, 'I just want to shag'. Now I wouldn't actually tell her that, but be polite and move on if your feelings won't.

If you truly feel for this chick, if she doesn't reciprocate, it'll suck more and more as time goes on, and if she get's preoccupied with another dude eventually, which is quite likely, it'll really suck. There's a chick I have to deal with from time to time who I mistakenly kept after throughout high school and during our college years, even though looking back I understand I had little chance, and now she's married to an acquaintance who lives nearby. I avoid them if possible because deep down I never really got over her and it's not easy to be around her, as pleasant as they may be.

A word of potential hopeful advice. If you really really like her, and you honestly think there's potential there, maybe in the not so distant future, being there for her all the time, and being around her all the time, is the worst thing you could do. You should still be friendly with her, but you need to at the very least act distant, like you've got your own stuff going on and that she's not the most important thing to you. Don't totally ignore her and act like a jerk though because that will push her away. If she likes you at all, as long as you're easily available and the odds are good that you won't be locked down by another chick, the less likely she is to warm up to you.

Woman are like cat's. Cat's will come around when they need something, like food, and will meow till they get it, because they need it and want it. Once they get what they want, they usually bail and go and do their own thing, however, cat's that are more poorly catered to, without being starved of course, tend to be much more affectionate overall. You need to be able to provide whatever it is she wants or needs, and you need to make her 'meow' for it, so she will show you affection. If you go out of your way and bend over backwards to highly cater to that 'cat', she will treat you exactly how she perceive's you, like a petty servant.

You want to be the owner of that restaurant that's typically booked solid, that she loves for whatever reason enough to stand in line, and not the poor schmuck serving her.

I usually don’t double post in a thread but I disagree with so many comments.
First of all what friendship are you talking about there was never a friendship, the guy wanted to seduce the girl and he failed, he says it feels different now, off course a few days ago he thought he could sleep with the girl now he knows all he can do is buy her free drinks, if you want a great friendship just call your real friends and play some smash or something, don’t you have enough friends already?
For girls it’s very convenient to friend zone guys they get free company, free meals, free entertainment etc, no wonder all men dread the friend zone while girls say it’s wonderful to have “close friends”.
Another thing I disagree is the idea to become cold because people want what they can’t get, if she liked you she should be kissing your feet right now, if she doesn’t, being stone cold won’t change that.
Like someone said if you want to be more attractive to women find yourself a good job and earn good money, going to the gym could help too. Lower your expectation Might be a good idea, maybe you are searching for women who are out of your league.

Depends on how bad it is for you.

If you can easily shake off the feelings you have for her and convert back to just friends, I suggest easing the friendship back slowly til the feelings of awkwardness fades away. No clear path I can tell you to follow here, just that you'll know when you're both ready to be just friends.

If it has become a big distraction and you can't throw off your feelings, I suggest just severing the relationship entirely. Things will only get worse for the two of you if you try to just ignore it and if you get weak and push something she doesn't want to happen, it may just ruin the friendship and any future friendship you may have. Best to cut it off for the short term while you can still maybe get back to being friends again in the future.

I did have this girl tell me one time that she just wanted to be friends. I told her that I had enough friends and told her that I can't be just friends with her in all sincerity due to how I felt. We cut off the friendship and didn't see each other for many years. I've since hit the gym, got a career and focused on myself, had multiple relationships then and when we saw each other years ago, she couldn't recognize me and she was the one who asked me out, we dated for a while (a few months). Didn't work out (I met my wife a few years later), but what that tells you is that you never know what the future brings.

I don't approve that you constantly try to ruin the innocent image of bears when you're actually just a human.

I asked all bears, nobody has even heard of you.