wildrice I’m just weird about it. I have met at least one person here and had gtgs with lots of people from my Bump BMB who migrated to fb when we GBCN’d. Some of them are over here sometimes too. That’s ok with me because I feel like we have a “what happens in mom’s club stays in mom’s club” code.
I used to. I discovered it when she posted about something that had just happened a few minutes before at our office. I don’t remember what it was now, but it was unique enough that I knew it was her and other things she posted later further confirmed it. Her office was next door to mine and we talked occasionally, but we weren’t in the same department so we weren’t super close. I never told her I was on here so it was odd at times knowing stuff about her from here that I shouldn’t have known. It wasn’t a huge company (700 people), but we both worked at HQ and there were only about 80 employees in our office.
ETA: I haven’t seen her on here in a few years so it isn’t anyone currently active.
People who realize this... Do you ever bring it up to the person? Or just keep it in your head like "huh."
I have a memory like a sieve so I would never make connections between posters and coworkers I don't think. Esp more occasional posters like some people mentioned.
I'm sure at my last job I did, as it is a Fortune 100 company, but as a SAH not in my current profession. My doctor's (former) nurse is on the board. Another poster and I used to work in the same building (the job before that) and frequently chatted in the elevator.
I mean, it's true that many of us might work with someone and not know it. That's not really what I meant, though!
I probably overshare, but by sharing bits of my life and reading bits of others' lives, it's not terribly hard to figure out which posters live in the same area as me. Then by reading the things they post over time (or sharing PMs or becoming facebook friends) we might realize that we work in a similar type of job or environment and then ask.
I think the stories of figuring it out randomly are far more interesting though!
I used to work with someone from the local board. She had left the boards years ago, but when she started we both had a "huh, you look familiar" moment and then realized where we knew each other from.
I was neighbors while I was in college and she was in law school for a couple of years with someone on the local board. Someone used my real name and she messaged me and said "Did you live at XYZ Street?" She had the most awesome cat. There's another poster on this board who used to live near me. She said a couple of things and I was like "hey.... we must live close." And the first time I met her IRL was when she helped me trap some feral cats. lol
I have a few people I know from GBCN that have worked with but I have always worked for large companies and I am Elder so basically here for almost 16 years.
Not that I know of, but when I was working in the hospital a few years ago, night shift, I was browsing through here on my lunch break and read a post where someone was describing the crazy turn of events that landed them in the hospital and I realized they were a patient on my unit at the time. That probably doesn't count lol.