Do you keep in contact with ex-coworkers?

I ve been best friends with two separate fellow workers from 4o years ago (they dont know each other) however I ve no other friends from any subsequent work places

Thanks, BlueBelle. I kinda feel sad about it, but I find the world of work so superficial nowadays. People just don't want to mix anymore.

Yes... Good chums stay around.
I have ex work chums who I have been in contact with for over 40 years, we still keep in contact even though we all live miles apart.
I have one dear friend whom I see about 4 times a year. She made my Wedding dress. She's 's now 92. She's still fabulous. I pick her up and we go to lunch about every 3 months.
Think I might have been lucky, to work with these lovely people.

I’m still friends with one colleague from about thirty years ago. Distance means that we don’t see each other very often, but we phone and WhatsApp. I’ve not been interested in other ex-colleagues simply because our lives went separate ways

I visited my former workplace last week, and was happy to see my colleagues from eight years ago. We have kept in touch via social media, and I and others who have moved on have been included in retirals, leaving dos etc.
Mind you, the workplace was more of a base for some of us, so we were used to being ‘called in’ for an occasion.

Yes I have kept in touch with a few friends from my working days and it's nice to reminisce, but we have only met up a few times and not living near each other and having families made them rare occasions. Over all the years it eventually came to just Christmas and Birthdays.

I have two friends from when I worked in a company from 1980-1996.

Another from a job I had from 2000-2009.

I see them fairly regularly.

The two I see most though are two I attended Secondary School, I first met them both in 1970.

I have coffee with two ex-colleagues once every six weeks as we all still live fairly locally. For all of us it was our first teaching job then we all left to have our families. We would meet up when our children were pre-school but after that it was just exchanging Christmas cards as we all went our separate ways. When we all finally retired we resumed contact meeting in the home of the one who lives nearest to both of us.

I worked in a private hospital in an admin role for 13 years. Everyone was lovely. DH is now regularly there for blood tests etc as he has cancer. Every time we walk in the waiting room we are greeted enthusiastically and loudly by the people on duty there, medical and admin. It’s very welcoming, but other people waiting there all look round at the disturbance!

Indeed I do. 4 in particular from the hospital where I worked for many years. Great co-workers who became friends. Lucky me.

I've never wanted to keep on touch with co workers. However, when I retired a few contacted me and we do meet up now and then. I would never have instigated it though.

I met my best friend when I started work in the City fifty years ago.

Our children are friends now as well.

Yes, I regularly meet up with three close friends with whom I worked for the best part of 40 years, and also keep in touch with a few others, although I don't see them as often.

I’m in touch and meet up occasionally with a couple of colleagues from working in the ‘70’s.
I don’t think, IMO, that 2 years is a long time to establish a friendship, rather than just working relationships findingmyway. Often colleagues are just ‘thrown together’ and the only thing they have in common is their work, especially in private companies.
As for making visits to the office, after leaving - you’d never get past security!

I meet up with my team of 5 from my last workplace several times a year for a meal and with a larger group of 12 or so annually for a couple of drinks. With another “set” of 3 usually every year when our American member is home visiting family. Then I’ve a very good friend I meet for lunch every few months - we’re always last out of our usual cafe when it shuts after 4 hours putting the world to rights. We last worked together in 1980.

After working 25 +years in my last job I’d say not particularly. One or two and great intentions only. Although the workplace is actually your other family and potentially you share a lot it does change apace without nurturing, much like a family.

I meet up regularly with 4 friends from my first job. We first met in 1968, whe we were school leavers.
I'm also in regular contact with friends I made in my last job. I retired from that 13 years ago.

Georgesgran

I’m in touch and meet up occasionally with a couple of colleagues from working in the ‘70’s.
I don’t think, IMO, that 2 years is a long time to establish a friendship, rather than just working relationships findingmyway. Often colleagues are just ‘thrown together’ and the only thing they have in common is their work, especially in private companies.
As for making visits to the office, after leaving - you’d never get past security!

That’s true about being thrown together, Georgesgran. I worked in a couple of places where I never kept in touch with anyone, apart from exchanging the odd Christmas card. It’s not that we didn’t get on as colleagues, we were just never really friends outside the workplace.

No. And no real inclination to.
Dropped in once when working in that town.

But work was never my social life.

Yes I lunch comparatively regularly with colleagues from three of my different companies. Love it.

Yes, but some moved away and we don't meet up now.
We exchange Christmas cards and there's a group on FB too.

No, although some of the others do still socialise with each other.

It never appealed much to me.

I've met up with various colleagues for a while after leaving somewhere but have usually found that the only thing we really have in common was the place of work. The jokes and references we shared mostly centred around the job, things that happened in the office or other colleagues. Once you leave, these are largely irrelevant and we naturally drift apart.

I do have one old colleague whom I've kept in touch with for 40 years however, mostly via Christmas cards.

I keep in touch with someone. I trained and then worked with, by social media as he lives in France.. some others I think of fondly but don't see as I've moved far away.