The People You'll Forget to Say Goodbye To When You Leave Your Job
When you leave a company, you think you'll have time to say goodbye to everyone who mattered.
You won't.
Your final two weeks move faster than any other two weeks you've ever worked. You're wrapping up projects, handing off responsibilities, sitting through transition meetings, maybe quietly job searching on the side, and suddenly it's your last Friday and you realize you never reached out to half the people you meant to.
The manager who mentored you when you were new. The teammate you worked with for three years on a project that actually meant something. The person in another department you always said you'd grab coffee with but never did.
By the time you think of them, you've already left. And sending a LinkedIn message six months later isn't the same.
This happens to almost everyone.
It happens because memory is a terrible retrieval system when you're stressed, busy, and emotional. You remember the people sitting near you. You remember the people you had meetings with this week. But you forget the ones who mattered over a longer arc — the consistent collaborators, the recurring 1:1 partners, the people whose names you'd recognize instantly but didn't think of because they weren't in front of you during your final days.
The irony is that your calendar already knows.
Your work calendar contains years of meeting data — who you met with, how often, for how long, and how recently. It's a near-perfect record of your professional relationships, sitting right there in a file you can export in 60 seconds.
That's what It Was Great Working With You does.
You export your calendar from Google Calendar or Outlook, upload the file, and in under 3 minutes you get a personalized farewell list — a tiered ranking of the colleagues you'd most likely regret not reaching out to.
The list is organized into three tiers:
- Your inner circle — the people you worked with most closely. Don't leave without reaching out.
- Don't forget about... — colleagues you interacted with regularly who are easy to overlook in the rush.
- Worth a goodbye — less frequent, but meaningful enough to surface.
Each person comes with context: how many meetings you had together, how many years you've collaborated, whether you had recurring 1:1s.
What it doesn't do:
- It doesn't read your messages, emails, or meeting notes. Only metadata — who was in the meeting, when, and how often.
- It doesn't require a company login. You upload a file from your own computer.
- It doesn't store your data. The file is processed and deleted.
Who it's for:
- Someone who just resigned and is now in their final two weeks
- Someone who was laid off and wants to leave gracefully despite the circumstances
- Anyone who's ever left a job and later realized they forgot someone important
It takes about 60 seconds to export your calendar, another 60 seconds to upload, and about 60 seconds to get your results. Your top 3 colleagues are shown free. The full list costs $4.99 — one-time, no subscription.
The concept is painfully simple: you shouldn't need to rely on memory to know who mattered.
