synchronicity, wow.

[bothered]

Very odd.
I started a new job last week. We have a 'smoking room' outside. I was sat in there this morning and was thinking about my last job where I worked for 10 years. When I worked an early shift I used to be the first there followed by a supervisor. After opening up the factory we would sit outside and have a smoke and a chat. This morning I was thinking 'a year ago I would have been sitting in the car park at this time of the morning having a smoke with Stuart, I wonder where he is now, it'd be nice to see him again'. Half an hour later I literally bumped into him, he has worked there for 4 months. It was nice to see a familiar, friendly face again.

[Shorty]

Quality. It's a small world Mr Bothered. A small, small world :)

[profdlp]

It sure makes a difference, doesn't it? :)

When I was looking to move on from my first computer job I went in for an interview at a likely place and bumped into an ex co-worker from the company I wanted to leave. The guy interviewing me turned to him and said "You know this guy?". The rest of the interview consisted of my friend saying "yes" and me being asked when I could start.

[dragonV8]

It is a small world for sure, bothered.

My son and I went to a meet n greet at a local pub. It was organised through a website. As one does, I had a look a the owners profile as she was working about 200 K's down the road from me.

3 things stood out. Her last name, where she comes from and the colour of her hair. She is 27 and we had never met.

Yesterday I introduced myself and asked her about a very good friend of mine i had lost contact with around 34 years ago.

I shocked the hell out of her as it turns out it was her father. Unfortunately he had passed away in '95.

This world of ours can sure be a very small place.

[dragonV8]

It sure makes a difference, doesn't it? :)

When I was looking to move on from my first computer job I went in for an interview at a likely place and bumped into an ex co-worker from the company I wanted to leave. The guy interviewing me turned to him and said "You know this guy?". The rest of the interview consisted of my friend saying "yes" and me being asked when I could start.

I understand about this one, prof.

When i was made redundant from my last job, the mining superintendent asked me to ring him 2 days later. I did so and was asked to go for an interview with a company that day as the person i had to talk to thought he knew me.

I walked through the door, shook hands and had the job without more than 2 questions. He asked, how much do you want and when can you start.

3 days later i had to be in the same office and was asked to meet the company mining manager.

His words were:"Good to see you again Jon, glad to have you onboard.
Been with them 8 month's and still have not given them my resume. (they didn't want it).

Again, it is a very small world, as i had worked with them both years ago.

*sorry if it appears i'm taking over your thread bothered. This is certainly not my intention.

[RADA]

bothered,

Sounds like Stuart was more friend than boss....


Not work related but definately adds to the "small world" theory....

Back in the mid 90's while in the Air Force, me and some buds went up to Phoenix for the weekend during a big block party/club crawl they throw every year.

I was in a bar called "The Devil's Den" ( ASU Sun Devils bar), it was packed, and as I swam my way through this mass of humanity toward the bar I noticed someone who looked familiar, he seemed to have the same thought also, we passed and nodded to each other. We were about 3 steps apart and he turned and said "Fred?", and I said "Dave?". We both laughed and immediately asked each other what we were doing here?!! He was a SSgt in the Air Force Stationed at Nellis AFB in Vegas, I was SSgt stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson!


....we were both 26 and hadden't seen each other since we were around 8 years old, when his Mom ran our Cub Scout meetings in Weymouth, MA!!!!!!

[bothered]

*sorry if it appears i'm taking over your thread bothered. This is certainly not my intention.
Not at all mate.
Some good stories guys.

[LawnMM]

I bumped into a girl I knew from 6th grade in college. I had been living in NJ a good hour or more away from where the college was back in grade school. I bump into her close to 10 years later, in another state, in the same college in a class that was specific to my major or I could have been there my whole four years and never known she was going there.

Tis an extremely small world sometimes.