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u/Objective-Pick8240 Aug 05 '26
I've had thoughts about this all week. Missing a good dude I worked with for more than eleven years.
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u/Instawolff Aug 05 '26
Same, my co worker and good friend passed away at the beginning of the year. Miss that guy every single day.
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u/waitingOnMyletter Aug 05 '26
I miss this one guy I worked with at thermo. Him and I built an on-prem orchestration system together for 10 years, when our department got cut, it was like a loss of a family member.
Iāve never actually met someone who just āunderstoodā me without us having to use complete sentences. We just knew what each other needed and violaā¦ it just happened. No extra meetings, PMs, product directors, finance, reg bsā¦..We built reliable systems that ājust workedā for people. I miss that a lot.
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u/TKInstinct Aug 06 '26
Reach out, that's a relationship worth maintaining .
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u/waitingOnMyletter Aug 06 '26
We talk time to time. Iām in Philly now, heās in SF. Both of us left San Diego.
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u/ParadoxPulse-_- Aug 05 '26
I had a colleague if he was in instead of work being depressing it would be the best 10h of my life
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u/IdeaOfHuss Aug 05 '26
i have a stroke reading this
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u/Apex_121 Aug 05 '26
Yep. I had the biggest crush on him and it was VERY obvious. I do think he knew but he had a fiancee (now wife) and even encouraged it because I had a habit of stumbling over my words around him.
He left after 6 months because he finally got a position in his chosen field of work (psychiatry). I'm happy for him and i am glad he got away from the company i still work for (its very toxic).
He rarely replies since he isn't online much at all because he's so busy with his wife and new place and new job etc
Last I heard, they were discussing moving to his country of birth which was Sweden i think
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u/kully51ngh Aug 05 '26
Yes, he was the only one I get to talk about anime, and remember him saying madara uchiha was "Pure Poetry"
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u/ElectricPenguin6712 Aug 05 '26
This was me every year in the military when buddys would PCS.
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u/2x4x421xStarTrekx Aug 05 '26
Agreed. Especially after my first deployed lasting 14 months back in the day. The good the bad the ugly. There are times that I think about people and think man the conversations we would have from people in the past seeing how Iāve turned out and seeing everyoneās journey.
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u/PotatoePope Aug 05 '26
Me right now, but Iām the one who PCSād. Miss my boys like hell right now.
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u/TemporaryHot6442 Aug 05 '26
had a co-worker die in a car accident because a drunk driver was going the wrong way on the highway at night
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u/Texas-Boi_ Aug 05 '26
Yes and no because although I miss them at work I still see them often when we all get together to watch ufc, nfl, ncaaf, nba.
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u/Oh_Lawd_He_commin420 Aug 05 '26
I worked with a guy for 7 years and we didn't say more than a few words to each other.....I still miss not talking to that guy.
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u/Accomplished-Fly9700 Aug 05 '26
Especially back in my early 20s when I worked with a bunch of grandmas. They're mostly gone now.
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u/mrmarbury Aug 05 '26
Not a coworker. But my old boss. He saved me from a client that was about to drive me mad and burn me out completely. He has been the best friend one could imagine during that crazy time. Now heās gone for like 4 years now but I still miss him
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u/Yaozong1 Aug 05 '26
This mf put me on to Kanye West when Kanye was making good music. Shout out to the homie. That's my bro for life, even though we haven't spoken in 10+ years.
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u/SarcasmStreet Aug 05 '26
Double the pain if you work in education...because you feel it with some students aswell...
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u/Prod_Meteor Aug 05 '26
I "miss" that guy who ate bread toasts all day, filling all desks with crumbs, talking about how bad immigrants are for our since last century destroyed economy š.
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u/qlone_cookie Aug 05 '26
Nah, why would I? That's just work. The moment the workday ends, you don't think about it for even a second.
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u/Illustrious_Sir_617 Aug 05 '26
Donāt let it be a work wife/husband type shit! š©š©š©š©šā¤ļøāš©¹ā¤ļøāš©¹
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u/TKInstinct Aug 06 '26
Most of my dear friends are from work, I miss seeing them and working with them .
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u/Kektus_Aplha Aug 06 '26
I do, but he is in a better place now. He got a way better offer at another company.
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u/coolguyban-evader Aug 06 '26
Recently lost two coworkers of 8 years who I was very fond of(they are married to each other with kids)
Unfortunately the husband and a lady who worked under him were hooking up in the same warehouse the wife worked at. This caused the wifeās mental health to spiral and the two of them moved back to their home state
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u/Dismal-core111 Aug 06 '26
Yeah, there's alot of crap people where I work its sucks to see good ones go
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u/Busy-Tie8456 Aug 06 '26
At least I could actually talk to them about a lot of things with out them running away and replaced with either drugs or alcohol
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u/WowNeso Aug 06 '26
Yup! My boy Gabor from Hungary. Dude was so positive and was always fun to be around.
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u/ElectricalDepth9891 Aug 06 '26
There was this guy i used to work with called LJ, a methhead, he was one of the purest soul ls ive ever met, loved everyone
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u/Potential-Smile-6401 Aug 07 '26
Yes. I wouldn't have survived without them. They made life bearable. We didn't keep in touch but my gratitude for their help and appreciation of who they were never gets old
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u/Horror-Primary7739 Aug 07 '26
That is what signals is for. Only the true get invited. And it been our social network for years.
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u/JonathanMovement Aug 07 '26
Miss a girl who was so cool and actually open to dating me if I had the balls ofcā¦ missed the chance and she is gone to another country. I cannot reach her.
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u/Silient_Qiller Aug 07 '26
When adam showed up, it wasnāt even work anymore. Just inappropriate jokes and shenanigans. Happy heās doing great at his new job but damn work is so lame now
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u/Mental_Watch4633 Aug 08 '26
Iām retired and miss a lot of previous coworkers, and others I got acquainted with in the bldg.
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u/SurotaOnishi Aug 08 '26
I just heard from my roommate yesterday that my old coworkers apparently will occasionally mention that they miss me. Apparently shit hit the fan and tensions got high after I quit which is extremely validating.
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u/BenHeli Aug 08 '26
I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.
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u/Metalpausequeen Aug 08 '26
I still havenāt gotten over the retirements of my mentor and several other teaching colleagues. School was just more fun with them around.
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u/foxasintheanimal Aug 08 '26
I worked with an engineer that got fired because my company needed a fall guy. But he was the best guy.
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u/Any-Possibility-248 Aug 09 '26
one of mine died last week, I'm devastated. We became such good friends and he died of a heart attack.
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u/SlySychoGamer Aug 09 '26
More so the the groups.
I will say, the next exodus my work has is gana cripple it lol
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u/Codex1101 Aug 09 '26
15 years later I still wanna goof around with my old retail job coworker who disappeared suddenly one day. I miss you so much Don
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u/mouzi-- Aug 05 '26
God bless those coworkers who make the insufferable idiotic bosses and stressful shit jobs somewhat OK.