It has been quite the week of nattering in the real world. My head is spinning from the snippets and gems of conversations I have had with work friends who become real-life friends. A fiftieth birthday and a retirement party in the same 48 hours were the source of my natterings.

Work friends are an interesting concept. Some slip away when jobs change others somehow transfer into longer term friendships.

Social media has helped me keep some of these friendships alive and relevant,for others there are personal connections.

I have observed the ex-colleagues from hell rarely feature at retirements or other informal gatherings of past work colleagues. Is there some other place where they all gather and share grief, gloom and gossip with as much  enthusiasm as lovely colleagues?

Even as I write this my head is laughing at the shockers I could put in my Reunion Room of undesirable colleagues. The threshold of which I would not cross.

And that is the beauty of time moving on. Lovely people remain lovely. While the less-than-lovely have their toxicity depleted and diminish over time to be irrelevant or laughable.

There may even be another reunion room for the blands. Those people who barely register on the workplace eco-system. I might cross that threshold, in case I missed a gem of a person while I was working or enjoying the company of the lovelies.

Catching up with the lovelies is a great way to spend 48 hours.