Kinda like running into an ex girlfriend while out with a new one.
Tech City Bowling in Kirkland is a popular place for a lot of companies on the east side to go for team events and celebration. I’ve been there several times over the years. Before it was even called Tech City Bowl.
Today the company I work for decided to take us all there to celebrate shipping one of our products. There was another company there doing something similar. Looking around I started to see several familiar faces. Then it dawned on me that they were all my former coworkers from my previous employer.
It was quite fun actually. It was a bit odd because I didn’t have a lot of good things to say about the company. I got along with the people fine, but sometimes the line between how you feel about your work and the people you work with is blurred.
The group I normally hang out with and I got a lane right next to my former coworkers where we sat, joked, talked about how they were doing and how their company was doing. In general we all had a good time. It was fun to be essentially hanging out with both companies at the same time.
I’m glad I make friends easily.