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Do you ever wonder about past colleagues?

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Stressedgiraffe · 27/02/2024 02:37

I'm thinking about changing jobs and it got me wondering if I'd stay in touch with any current colleagues. I'm quite friendly with some and know a lot about them. I'd like to stay in touch with a couple or so but realistically due to geography I'll probably never see them again.
It's just made me wonder how these people who seem so important at the time are so fleeting in our lives.
Anyone else feel the same?
Or is this just mad rambling due to insomnia.

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EasternEcho · 27/02/2024 02:47

For some weird reason I feel a sense of sadness when I lose touch with people who have played a part in my life for any reasonable period of time. I usually try to keep in touch, unless they opt out. I have ex-colleagues on Linkedin and keep in touch with a hi how are you doing once in a way. A few that I've been close to are on my FB even as way back as 30 years ago and live on a different continent. The ones I've lost touch with, I do wonder about them from time to time.

Timspam · 27/02/2024 05:11

Hi, I often wonder about old colleagues and even school friends, the thing is realistically you can't keep in touch with everyone, I'm in my 50's now and must have worked with hundreds of people by now. For me I'm not on Facebook etc and prefer to leave the past in the past. I think it's the old Life's a Journey cliche places and people as you pass through.

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Stressedgiraffe · 27/02/2024 08:45

I have most colleagues on LinkedIn and a couple on fb. I can see changes in jobs but I wonder about their personal life is going well.

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SatdayHatday · 27/02/2024 09:04

30 years ago I was very good friends with a guy at work. No funny business. He was gay and we have a great time. He left and I moved on I. The company. We lost touch. Funny thing is no one remembers him. I now cannot remember his surname and wanted to see if I could find him but not one of the old work colleagues I'm still in touch with remembers. I'm starting to doubt myself.

SallyWD · 27/02/2024 09:11

I'm a very sentimental person and always feel very sad about moving on and losing touch with people. As a result I've stayed in touch with many, many people from past jobs, from school etc. I feel a kind of bond with people I've seen every day for several years.
Obviously you can't keep in touch with everyone but I find Facebook is good for the sort of light contact. You can keep in touch without it being too intrusive.
I do often think of people I've lost touch with and like hearing about them from others.

DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats · 27/02/2024 09:13

I still think about people I worked with in the early 80s. The fun we had in work and out. I remember them fondly. They were such a big part of my life x

anyolddinosaur · 27/02/2024 09:16

Yes. I am still in occasional contact with a couple and the wife of one who has died. I do wonder about some of the others, one or two I can google to find out what they are doing.

EndlesslyDistracted · 27/02/2024 09:31

I've stayed friends with a few over the years, I see one once a year or so who I worked with 25 years ago and we always have so much to chat about, also a couple from the job after that who I meet once or twice a year similarly. Then a few on FB and lots more on LinkedIn. I still think about people from all my old jobs from time to time even if I'm not in touch with them in any way and its lovely if we do cross paths again (I've only worked in two industries so this does happen).

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