diff --git a/task_processing/plugins/kubernetes/kubernetes_pod_executor.py b/task_processing/plugins/kubernetes/kubernetes_pod_executor.py
index e965880..5e90516 100644
--- a/task_processing/plugins/kubernetes/kubernetes_pod_executor.py
+++ b/task_processing/plugins/kubernetes/kubernetes_pod_executor.py
@@ -163,14 +163,12 @@ def _pod_event_watch_loop(
         self, kube_client: KubeClient, watch: kube_watch.Watch
     ) -> None:
         logger.debug(f"Starting watching Pod events for namespace={self.namespace}.")
-        # TODO(TASKPROC-243): we'll need to correctly handle resourceVersion expiration for the case
-        # where the gap between task_proc shutting down and coming back up is long enough for data
-        # to have expired from etcd as well as actually restarting from the last resourceVersion in
-        # case of an exception
         # TODO: Do LIST + WATCH if we're not starting from a known/good resourceVersion to
         # guarantee that we always get ordered events (starting from a resourceVersion of 0)
         # has no such guarantees that the initial events will be ordered in any meaningful way
         # see: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/74022
+        # NOTE: we'll also probably want to add some sort of reconciliation if we do ^
+        # since it's possible that we'll have skipped some events
         while not self.stopping:
             try:
                 for pod_event in watch.stream(
@@ -187,6 +185,13 @@ def _pod_event_watch_loop(
             except ApiException as e:
                 if not self.stopping:
                     if not kube_client.maybe_reload_on_exception(exception=e):
+                        # we reset the resource version since it's possible that the last one is no
+                        # longer able to be resumed from
+                        # NOTE: this means that when we restart the stream, we'll get events for
+                        # every pod in the namespace - so we *shouldn't* miss any events at the
+                        # cost of likely re-processing events we've already handled (which should
+                        # be fine)
+                        watch.resource_version = None
                         logger.exception(
                             "Unhandled API exception while watching Pod events - restarting watch!"
                         )