Tell me about your weird co-worker(s)...

[Anonymous]

Male, early to mid 50s. Has the same thing for lunch every single day. Without fail.

[Anonymous]

16:16; white bread and bacon b/c if yes, I know that guy.

[Anonymous]

16:16, if it's tuna sandwiches, I know that guy.

[Anonymous]

Lots of people in my office eat basically the same thing every day.

[Anonymous]

My former boss had an eating disorder. She used to keep a bowl of lemon drops on her desk and she would suck the sugar coating off them and put them back. Then she'd offer them to staff and visitors.

[Anonymous]

Big Law partner would enter bathroom with a newspaper every and return to hand his secretary articles he had ripped out (presumably while on the john.)

At Big Law new hire orientation a new hire removed clothes and began to masturbate in computer training. Highly traumatic for all involved.

A Big Law document production worker with visible hump on his neck (maybe a goiter) crashed the server because he downloaded so much porn.

I could go on for days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My former boss had an eating disorder. She used to keep a bowl of lemon drops on her desk and she would suck the sugar coating off them and put them back. Then she'd offer them to staff and visitors.

Oh gross!

[Anonymous]

One of my bosses used to drape his sweaty tshirt over a chair at the table in his office, after he worked out at lunch. We'd have to warn visitors not to sit in that chair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The one who scared me the worst was the boss who would lose her shit over inconsequential things. She was a horrrible micromanager, so she REALLY paid attention to the inconsequential crap. She had a file on all of us where she kept copies of the small errors we had made...I guess so she could fire us and have a paper trail. I started keeping a file of her off-the-handle bullshit "helpful messages" too. Sadly, HR couldn't do anything about her (she was appointed by the politicians we were working for), and even though HR brought us in for interviews, we (her subordinates) weren't protected by HR either. When I went to talk to them about it, they basically said they pitied us in our office and that I was just one in a long line of capable people she had driven out of that office. She was the only one with institutional knowledge, so she got to lord it over us. She was always afraid one of us would want to take her job - so the smartest people were the ones she rode the hardest.

I am 99% sure that I worked for the same person a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to work with a guy who I'm pretty convinced was a sociopath. He loved playing little tricks on other coworkers. He used to tell me (he trusted me I guess) about how he never felt guilty about anything he did. He pretty much hated all our other coworkers, and he'd mock them in various ways.

Glad to be out of that office!

You know he told all your other co-workers they were the favorite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to work with a guy who I'm pretty convinced was a sociopath. He loved playing little tricks on other coworkers. He used to tell me (he trusted me I guess) about how he never felt guilty about anything he did. He pretty much hated all our other coworkers, and he'd mock them in various ways.

Glad to be out of that office!

You know he told all your other co-workers they were the favorite.

Yes, I know.... He's been really successful since, too. I pity the folks he manages now.

[Anonymous]

All relatively normal, except for the shy pee-er. If you approached the bathroom at the same time or just after her, she would change course or leave the bathroom. It was painfully obvious after a couple of times. But I sympathize. I simply cannot poop with someone else in the restroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people in my office eat basically the same thing every day.

This is exactly the same thing! Turkey, lettuce, tomato and mayo on whole wheat. Never a pickle. Always a particular kind of soda. Every.single.day. Slavishly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The one who scared me the worst was the boss who would lose her shit over inconsequential things. She was a horrrible micromanager, so she REALLY paid attention to the inconsequential crap. She had a file on all of us where she kept copies of the small errors we had made...I guess so she could fire us and have a paper trail. I started keeping a file of her off-the-handle bullshit "helpful messages" too. Sadly, HR couldn't do anything about her (she was appointed by the politicians we were working for), and even though HR brought us in for interviews, we (her subordinates) weren't protected by HR either. When I went to talk to them about it, they basically said they pitied us in our office and that I was just one in a long line of capable people she had driven out of that office. She was the only one with institutional knowledge, so she got to lord it over us. She was always afraid one of us would want to take her job - so the smartest people were the ones she rode the hardest.

I am 99% sure that I worked for the same person a few years ago.

Is her first name Susan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people in my office eat basically the same thing every day.

This is exactly the same thing! Turkey, lettuce, tomato and mayo on whole wheat. Never a pickle. Always a particular kind of soda. Every.single.day. Slavishly.

I eat exactly the same thing for lunch everyday and I work somewhere that has a free cafeteria literally overflowing with food choices. I just really like turkey sandwiches. What can I say?