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@Brita Moorus - one aspect I love about having work friendships is running into these friends at conferences. Connections make the world go 'round!

@Carsten Severin _KUMAVISION AG_ - A few of my mentees have become lifelong friends - I can only hope more folks can be lucky enough to have this happen for themselves!

Social media is definitely an entertaining way to get insights into your coworkers, past and present. Even on LinkedIn! 🤣

@Anne Saunders - yeah, working at the same place isn't guaranteed friendship for me, but it does help provide the introduction! Love that you made that connection in your life! 🔗

The longer I work in this industry, the more I try to recruit (qualified) accomplices from past jobs into my current gigs. Having a built-in rapport with a past teammate, and an understanding of where they can help you is SO useful when faced with interesting IT challenges.

Love this, rituals like a monthly dinner are important! Speaking of rituals: I find birthdays to be the perfect reason to get together with former coworkers (the ones I count as friends, of course). 🙌

@Anne Saunders - that's awesome 🤣 @Jousef - agreed!

Love this! I have too many ex-coworkers to declare one as my favorite... 🤩

@Arkadiusz Wroblewski - I appreciate anyone who tries to reconnect with me, even if it's years later. That whole thing that happened in 2020 underscores how fleeting our relationships are, and how much work needs to be put into them to make them work.

@Matt Doar _Adaptavist_ - I love it when a past colleague reaches out to me for a referral, and I hated working with that person. Not that that happens much... (the reaching out, or the fact that I dislike working with certain people, you guess!) 🤣

@Natalie Beiler - YES! Literally working in the trenches often forges bonds beyond the workplace. 🔗 The time I spent working in physical offices gives me an appreciation for working in virtual one. 🙃

They run on tickets with one-line summaries, Confluence pages last touched eleven months ago, ownership nobody has updated since the last reorg, and the architectural decision that lives only in a staff engineer's head and one Slack thread from March. I felt this in my bones. COVID also exposed these organizational gaps -…

@Dia Bautista - hi Dia! Contact Atlassian's billing support team to understand where your user account might be associated, they'll get you sorted: https://www.atlassian.com/company/contact/purchasing-licensing

@Reiner - Whoa, that's awesome! I don't think I'm the godfather of anyone's kids. 😂 Nor would I recommend it, I'm too busy being the godfather of Jira sites.

Yes! That big event from 2020 definitely screwed with a number of my relationships - not just with past colleagues. 😭😂 This year has been fun, I got to reconnect with folks that I haven't talked to since 2019 🙌

@zoltanersek _outpostlabs_dev_ - YES! The earlier the job, the more friends (and better friends) that I am with the previous coworkers. Thankfully there are exceptions even in my recent jobs. I think that since my more recent jobs have been remote first or hybrid made it more of a challenge to make a social connection with…

@Reggie Taylor - what IdP are you using? If you're on Okta, try ensuring that user's SCIM user record is no longer being synced to Atlassian? https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-cloud/kb/how-to-manage-account-sync-actions-in-atlassian-admin-hub/ If you break the SCIM link between the Atlassian account and the IdP…

@Arkadiusz Wroblewski - Beautiful shots! 📸 Turkiye has been on my travel list forever!

@snath - ever figure out how to do this? 🙏

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@zoltanersek _outpostlabs_dev_ - fantastic deal!

#winning

We believe in you @Arkadiusz Wroblewski !

@Barbara Szczesniak - YES! I forgot about that employee perk! I worked for a company that offered it, and I think I got Office 200x (at the time) for $15 (something like that). Just searched online and I see I can get Office 2024 for $25... tempting, but when was the last time I truly needed to edit a Word doc at home? 😂

@Anwesha Pan - What kind of minimalist wallet do you have? I love mine - it's this make and model, in case you're curious! (I made sure to not mention its name so I don't overtly advertise the company.) 😂

@Anne Saunders - I take it this was a one-time experience? 🥲

Oh man! Did 3dfx cards exist yet? Did you get one of those? 👾

I LOVE this 😂

@Katie Lai - Seibert - ooh, I like this Welcome Wednesday! * If we're talking sweepstakes, I once won a pair of headphones, tablet, and smartwatch! Was a total surprise (of course). Fun fact: I gave away the winnings so I wouldn't have to report them to my employer. I guess it's not really a corporate gift, but wanted to…

@Arkadiusz Wroblewski - Bucharest! I had no idea what to expect, and I was totally charmed by its coffee scene. I can't wait to go back, maybe this year...