5 or months after I resigned as an elder, and just before I totally faded out, we got a visit from a substitute C.O.. I didn't know him.
I had a heated discussion with the C.O. on his previous visit when "they let me resign." After commenting on how poorly he had been there for me, I asked if he was told to avoid me- since that was what he did. He said "NO. They said to 'snatch you out of the fire.'"
So I suppose some kind of instructions were left with the elders.
Anyway, they had absolutely nothing to say to me when I turned in field recruiting hours with "Zero" written on them and now the Substitue C.O. was there. The COBE (P.O. at the time) and the secretary approached me in the main auditorium after the meeting. They made small talk- the weather, how is work, something in the news, blah blah blah. Nothing important, but they talked for me much longer than anyone else. I didn't get the sense that they were trying to build up to something, nor that they were trying to keep me from meeting the substitute C.O.. Instead, it seemed that they wanted to BE SEEN TALKING TO ME in front of the subst. C.O.. That way, they can say they had made every effort to snatch me out of the fire.
If it were those same guys years later at the Kingdom Hall, I could be sure that they would not be trying very hard to "shepherd" me. The book study overseer, who is now the person that checks on "his" group has called me about once a year and invited me to the memorial or something else, but even that died off about 2 years ago.
So any effort to call on me now, I would simply remind them how they haven't tried seriously for years. I would say to their faces: "You told me you were there if I ever needed you. So stay THERE and wait for my call."
