Any advice on what to say when an ex coworker pops outta the woodwork years later and asks to collab with my current agency with a dept that I don’t interact with? I don’t mind them but i don’t feel comfortable connecting the agency they’re at with a team at my agency that I don’t know well

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Just tell them you don’t really know the people that run that department so you are the wrong person to make the connection 🤷‍♀️.

Or…make the connection but tell your internal team “in full transparency, this is an old co worker and I’m doing this to be nice but I know nothing about them…don’t feel pressure to persue anything if it doesn’t make sense”

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