Anyone have a co-worker leave that they really miss?

[Frollo27]

Anyone ever have a co-worker leave and you feel like you lost your best friend?

At my job, I got to work with a really great woman for 4 years who just left a week ago. She left to be home this summer with her teenage daughter who she has been having some issues with.

We got along instantly since my first day and had maybe about 1 or 2 disagreements the whole time we worked together. She was always kind and caring. She never got angry or cursed. My uncle has been in the hospital recently and she always asked me about him. My managers never ask. It's really too bad she had to leave. We did hire someone to replace her and the new person has been at the office 2 weeks now. She's ok and I think will do well but it's just not the same anymore.

Anyone ever been in the same situation and feel as bummed out as I have been this past week?

The only good thing is I'll be going to WDW in 4 days.

Sam

 

[ktpool]

My best friend (whom I met when I took her job when she accepted another internally) moved to another division 3 states away for her husband :-((

Good news....they want to come back as soon as her husband finds a position (we all work at the same company).

WHOOOHOOOO

 

[MUFFYCAT]

when i first started working in my dept in 1986, it was with 5 men.
one in particular was the sweetest. he thought of me as one of his daughters.
i loved working with him and the others

he retired in 1998 then died 6 months later of an heart attack.

it tore me apart for awhile.
he gbought me sweater while on vacation once. it's too small but I can't through it out.

 

[vivilasvegas]

Yes. I usually never have much in common with the people I work with, and would never hang out with them outside of work. But then I got a job and there was one girl there, about my age, same interests and we totally hit it off!! working was actually fun, and we'd go out after. It was like a new great friend. Then after 3 years she left, and work was never really the same. Sadly, we lost touch after a while also.

I now work with a few ladies who make me laugh during the day, so things are looking up!

 

[VSL]

Anyone ever been in the same situation and feel as bummed out as I have been this past week?

I've yet to experience it - I'm finishing up in Uni and any part-time jobs I have had were very 'customer focused' so there wasn't much time to get too close (and I just wasn't one to socialize outside of work).

I guess these kind of things aren't really noticed until they are gone (like most things though, I guess).

 

[Taylor]

I lost a close coworker 4 years ago. We made a pact to keep in touch, and amazingly we still speak at least once per week and are still very close.

 

[m&m's mom]

I actually have lost a couple. One transferred w/ her DH to FL and the other quit to be a sahm.
We are now starting to get the option to work from home and I am already depressed to not work w/ another one of my co-workers. He is one of my best friends. We have worked together for 15 years, side-by-side. We have taken a few personal trips together w/ some other friends and are very compatible. Several people have asked him if he was SURE he was gay. Hello! I am married. But, if he was not gay and I was not married ( Ha! THAT is some huge obstacles) things might be different. The big joke at work is that he is my pseudo-husband. Has all husbandly duties (drives me to get my nails done during lunch so I won't mess up my nails, goes wherever I want to for lunch, always opens doors, etc.) but none of the other stuff that goes w/ it.
He has not so much as ever kissed a girl -way gay.
We are arranging a day in the office every couple of weeks to catch up.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

I left my daily newspaper to take a job at a magazine and I miss my photographer and his family. The live about two miles away, and we talk about once a month (he uses me as a sounding board for the spiraling vortex of crap there). He just took a new job, though, so we probably won't get to talk as much. People always talked about us having an affair, I hope only jokingly since we're both happily married. He is like a big brother and his wife and kids are wonderful.

 

[camreesmom]

Met a girl at the office and worked with her for 5 years until I transferred to another dept. We still worked in the same building so we stayed close. We were together thru both of our divorces, her dad passing away, two pregnancies, etc. Now she moved to another state and we still call each other and email several times a day. When I transferred to the other dept., I met an older woman who really took me under her wing and helped me learn so much both work related and just life in general. She really kept me grounded. She was several years older, not quite old enough to be my mom but pretty close. EVERYONE in our office still misses her even though it's been almost 3 years since she left when her husband was relocated for his job. The office is definitely not the same without her.

 

[lunchmomd]

I work in a small office and became very close to our receptionist, even though she was 20 years older than me. She was almost like a second mother/friend. For 5 years, we sat right next to each other and had lunch together every day. She came to all my kids' events, parties, etc., and even spent some holidays with us. The first Monday in March, she came into work sounding like she had bronchitis. My boss (who is the ultimate germiphobe) told her to go to the emergency room. She did, and they admitted her. Come to find out, she had blood clots in both her lungs, and a few days later they found lung cancer. She had been a 12+ year breast cancer survivor! Two weeks later, she was gone. What made the whole situation worse, is that her "daugher" didn't even have a funeral, still hasn't!! I visited her almost every day at the hospital, but didn't get there on the day she died so I really didn't get to say goodbye. I had to pack up all her stuff at the office, and it's still sitting in the back room because her "daughter" never came to pick it up. I miss her every day!

Sorry this got so long.

 

[Kitty 34]

Our previous middle school principal was a very close friend but she took a job in Germany. I still miss her terribly!

 

[Evil Queen]

Yes, I was laid off from my job, after 9 years. I miss seeing so many people daily. Matter of fact, my best friend, Joe, became my boss a couple of months before my lay off, and he's the one who had to tell me. I think he cried more than I did. It was the HR dept. and higher ups who decided who would be cut loose, not Joe's. But we email and IM often.

There are many folks relocating with the company or moving on to other jobs (out of fear of more lay offs), and they usually have going away parties for them. I went to the last one, and got to see many of the IT department.

Suppose to be another one in a couple of weeks. I will really miss Andre, he's going to Memphis and he's been one of mine and DS10's best friends (he comes to DS's birthday parties more than he comes to mine). He's the one I can tell more stuff too then anyone and never fear of it being told to everyone. So I will get to see many of the Customer Service folks, that's the dept. I worked in.

It's very hard. I understand and here's a

 

[Mercy]

Yes, it has happened to me. I work for a pretty large well-known company in a customer service center. I work in administration, so I am not phone based. The work we do is pretty boring and redundant, so anything to help pass the time is a benefit.

We had a guy (John) come on to our team about 2 years ago. He was just a young guy (I'm old enough to be his mother), but he was such fun, he would have us laughing all day. He would crack jokes, sing, talk in funny voices, we would all fuss with one another (playfully)... just crazy stuff. We all had such a good time, it was actually fun to go to work.

Then because we have such a strick attendance policy, he ended up getting fired Well it was like someone died in the office. Work hasn't been the same since.

 

[Frollo27]

Thanks everyone for sharing your stories.