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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone at my husband's new building (fed government renting an office building) out in Herndon leaves bowel movements throughout the building.

That goes beyond weird; it's mentally ill. There is DNA on poo so we are hoping someone cares enough to be taking samples and keeping them to charge whoever it ends up being. The building has cameras but they aren't 'operable'. The worst.

Totally agree that this is mental illness. Unless you swab all of the employees for samples, how do you think you'll be able to compare poop? I hope you find the perv either way!

Someone at my college periodically smeared poop all over the seat in the common toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One co-worker's wife calls him several times a day. Every conversation begins with her sayying "Hi baby" and ends with her saying "I love you" and waiting for him to reluctantly repeat it back. How do I know this? He takes all of these calls on speakerphone.

Another co-worker, an older gentleman, may be the last person in America using AOL. So every afternoon, when he checks his personal e-mail, I hear "You've got mail!"

We have one of these. She's old but her voice is loud and she talks like a teenager. She calls for all kinds of dumb shit. How do I know this? She talks so damn loud we can all hear her. Co-worker does the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my coworkers suggested we have an office baby shower (which I did not request) AFTER my child was born, in case the baby didn't survive. She actually said this to me.

If she is from outside of the US, this thought is pretty common elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

A coworker used to steal my yogurt out of the fridge. So I started leaving e pores ones for him to steal. Oh well!

[Anonymous]

*expired

[Anonymous]

Worked with a lady who would check out everyone's lunch in the office fridge. Weird!

[Anonymous]

Mine are all crazy liberals. Not regular ones but way far left stuff. It's hard to even have a regular conversation with them.

[Anonymous]

1. One who is a spinster and still lives at home at 32 and seems to have no life outside of work.

2. One who calls everyone 'Angel' 'Darling' 'Beautiful/Gorgeous'

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Our company lawyer legitimately spends 2-3 HOURS of her day having personal conversations with coworker's/anyone who walks by (my coworker and I have timed her). She is single but seems to date a lot and many of her stories are WAY TMI. And the entire floor can hear her because she talks in a loud valley girl voice 'OH MY GAWDDDDDDD WTFFFFFF'.

[Anonymous]

1. I'm pretty sure one of my colleagues has a major psychiatric issue. He picks fights with someone new each week. Over and over, he accuses other teachers of "undermining" him with students and "trying to take my authority." He corners people in their classrooms alone and shouts at them. I've seen him talking with great animation to himself as he walks across the parking lot, and he seems to be angrily arguing (with himself? with the voices?). Many times in the hallways, I've seen him walking along, hunched over and muttering to himself. It is weird and scary. Admin love him!

2. One of my other colleagues teaches high school math. He is trained as a PE teacher and has no degree or qualification to teach math, and freely admits to colleagues that he doesn't know how to do the math in his classes. Once he came into my classroom and asked me if I could tell me everything I know about linear functions because he was being observed by a parent the next period and realized he couldn't do his old standby of showing youtube clips of someone else explaining the work, and then "getting a Korean kid to explain their answer." I'm an English teacher. When I told him I can't put together a high school math lesson with no prior notice, in twenty minutes, he said "So now you see how I feel." (and admin love him! he is a team player who contributes a to athletics...I feel so sorry for the kids in his classes).

3. One of my colleagues, a middle aged single man, collects Care Bears memorabilia from the 80s. He had a party at his house and people did not know what to say when we saw that his house is packed to the point of hoarding with Care Bears toys and lunchboxes and books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. I'm pretty sure one of my colleagues has a major psychiatric issue. He picks fights with someone new each week. Over and over, he accuses other teachers of "undermining" him with students and "trying to take my authority." He corners people in their classrooms alone and shouts at them. I've seen him talking with great animation to himself as he walks across the parking lot, and he seems to be angrily arguing (with himself? with the voices?). Many times in the hallways, I've seen him walking along, hunched over and muttering to himself. It is weird and scary. Admin love him!

2. One of my other colleagues teaches high school math. He is trained as a PE teacher and has no degree or qualification to teach math, and freely admits to colleagues that he doesn't know how to do the math in his classes. Once he came into my classroom and asked me if I could tell me everything I know about linear functions because he was being observed by a parent the next period and realized he couldn't do his old standby of showing youtube clips of someone else explaining the work, and then "getting a Korean kid to explain their answer." I'm an English teacher. When I told him I can't put together a high school math lesson with no prior notice, in twenty minutes, he said "So now you see how I feel." (and admin love him! he is a team player who contributes a to athletics...I feel so sorry for the kids in his classes).

3. One of my colleagues, a middle aged single man, collects Care Bears memorabilia from the 80s. He had a party at his house and people did not know what to say when we saw that his house is packed to the point of hoarding with Care Bears toys and lunchboxes and books.

*tell HIM, not me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my coworkers was trying to cover up a pregnancy - because it was out of wedlock (or she was seeing someone else at the time, can't remember). She told everyone who asked anything about the baby (that she was obviously carrying) that she wasn't pregnant, she had a "medical condition". She didn't tell anyone she had the baby either, except HR because she needed to go on short-term disability. Yeah, it's a medical condition, all right - it's called pregnancy!!!

This isn't strange at all. I don't want people at work to know I'm pregnant yet. When asked I say no I've just gained weight. It's nobody's business. People hide pregnancies for many reasons including losses etc.

[Anonymous]

My well paid boss is a clepto. For stupid sh*t. Like he'll steal your raw salmon steak from Whole Foods out of the office fridge. Steal granola bars. A coffee mug. Sunglasses. It's clearly a compulsion.

[Anonymous]

So.

Much.

ASD.

[Anonymous]

I had a coworker who would go through our offices after we left and leave things out, so we would know he went through our offices. The same coworker would unplug everything at the shared computer we used to serve the public, just so one of us would have to plug it all in the next day.

Another coworker memorized when everyone comes in and leaves, and points out if you come in later one day or leaves early. No, they were not the receptionist.