I think, in another life, that Evan & I were soulmates.
Evan is my (happily married) coworker. & we have gotten along well since I first started there, but we didn’t get close until we became the Trim Room Dream Duo. He got the Trim Room Lead job, which is way too much work for one person, so I felt badly for him & started helping him out wherever I could. The Trim Room is complicated because you can’t actually talk to anyone in there. We have to wear noise cancellers because the machines are so loud. But we still manage to communicate flawlessly & we are honestly the most perfect team ever. Once the machines are off & we have to do the paperwork, we can talk for a little bit & we just get along so fucking well. The other day, I asked Daniel if he could wait for me for 10 minutes while Evan & I finished up paperwork (Dan gives me a ride home) & we ended up just talking in the command station for an hour (oops, sorry Daniel 😂). He has cried in front of me, and we have shared so many laughs. I can always tell when he is a little bit off, as he can with me. I can tell instantly when he is upset & am not afraid to ask him what’s up. & he can tell when something is bothering me & will do what he can to change it, without saying a word. For example (& I know nobody is even gonna know what I’m talking about), one of our Twisters is fed with a funnel instead of a conveyor & that Twister was put in my station one day. I was just doing my job as normal, but he could somehow tell that I hated it, so he got someone to switch with me. I didn’t say a word, I didn’t complain, I just did my job & he somehow knew. He is by far my favourite co-worker. We just click. We know what the other person is going to do before they do it.
The sad news is that he is quitting, & this is his last week. I have been crying every single night since he told me on Monday (I was the first person he told), & I know on Thursday, our last day working together, that I am going to ugly cry. I don’t want to run the Trim Room without him. Work just won’t be the same.
I know that we are just friends & I’m more than okay with that. I’ve just never clicked with a man so well in my life & I think that if we had crossed paths at different times in a different life, we would have been soulmates.
I need to find my own Evan.
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