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[Luvsmyfam]

Very sad they passed kachina624

[QVCkitty1]

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@Luvsmyfam wrote:

qvckitty1,even tho I am not retired,I probably would not keep intouch with ppl I worked with.after all,they were your work friends.just my opinion

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@Luvsmyfam , I was lucky to become good friends with  the woman I referenced in my post.  We don't see each other a lot , but we will always  be friends.

[Luvsmyfam]

well you are one of the lucky ones,so yes,in that case,I would stay intouch

[kittykatkay]

Yes, there are a few of us who stay in touch throughout the year although nothing like it was on a daily basis of working together.  However, believe it or not....my former boss retired about 2 years before I did and to this day, he and his wife keep in touch and even though they now live out of the city....they send me a basket of fruit and candy every Christmas.  I had the best boss and job ever and was thankful and grateful every day for that blessing.

[Love my grandkids]

Nope. I left it all behind, and never felt better. 

[Susan in California]

After I retired, I was pretty busy with a new granddaughter and some traveling.  I did keep up with colleagues who reitred around the same time, give a year or two.

It was fun, mostly going out to lunch, a group of us.

Some people had trouble not talking about the old career.

I had pretty much turned the corner.

The pandemic changed a lot, and I am sort of not that interested anymore. 

The one really good friend, also a colleague, now has memory issues.  Her son told me two days ago it was

Alzheimer's.  I really miss this friend so much.

[Jk9]

No.  I didn't keep up with a lot of news when I worked so there was little interest after I left to do so.  I was approached when a group of people with whom I once worked decided to have a "reunion" type of get together.  I told them the truth:  I am not interested in getting with people I haven't seen in years.  That is just how I am.

[Sweetbay magnolia]

I maintained some contact for awhile, even went back to work for a time.

Then it just started to feel like a past I needed to let go.  The friend I had kept just kept replaying the same drama over and over and I finally said, enough!  No more reminders of why I couldn't wait to leave in the first place!

[FrostyBabe1]

There are a couple of people that I'm still in touch with, but that's it. We've all moved on with our lives. I hope that everyone else that I worked with is well and happy, but our relationships were purely professional and I never had an interest in changing that. 

[Meowingkitty]

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@deepwaterdotter wrote:

No, when I retired i left the office gossip behind.

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I agree. When I got laid off and decided not to go back to work I was done. I really didn't care for the people, job, commute or frankly anything about the job when I did time there let alone after I left.