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

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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?

You don't have to say anything. You are weird.

[Anonymous]

My coworker early 50s, picks his nose in meetings and eats the boogers. He also farts out loud, we'll be having a work conversation and as he stands there he will fart and keeps right on going and doesn't even say excuse me.

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I used to work with a woman who picked her nose and then would stick her hand in her jelly bean jar - she always offered jelly beans to any one coming into her office. Gross!

I now work with a dreaded 'cat lady'. She's like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown except instead of carrying around a cloud of dust and dirt, she carries around a cloud of cat dander and eau de feline. When I was pregnant, I had to hold my breath when I walked by her office because the my super sensitive nose made the stink unbearable - I'd throw up if I caught a whiff of it. When she moved offices, the facilities people had to notify the cleaning crew that it was a potentially hazardous cleaning job. She leaves the windows in her car down so the local strays can help themselves to the cat food she keeps in her car. I can't even go into detail about all the scratches and scabs she has on her hands, face and arms. I shudder just thinking about her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find weird is how many "bathroom handwashing monitors" there obviously are lurking in the workplace. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My coworker early 50s, picks his nose in meetings and eats the boogers. He also farts out loud, we'll be having a work conversation and as he stands there he will fart and keeps right on going and doesn't even say excuse me.

Ewww! PP, did anyone ever mention it to him that eating boogers in the workplace is unacceptable?

No, seriously, that's what HR should be for, to deal with situations like that. And farting out loud? Unprofessional, to say the least.

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I heard that Jay Leno has had the same thing for lunch everyday for decades. I guess he is weird too?

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Yes, Jay Leno is weird, for a lot of reasons including that one.

On topic, there was a guy at my company who shit his pants one day. My friend in HOUR had to tell him to go home early.

[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.

Yep. I had this in a government job. Micromanager to the hilt. She would tell everyone else to leave their door open, but she would closer her door and put paper up on the windows so NO ONE could see in. Her hair was always dirty and she made over $150,000. Stringy, grey hair. We all joked that she could afford to buy shampoo now and why wasn't she buying it. HR couldn't do anything about her either and she is still there. Everyone in the division has left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On topic, there was a guy at my company who shit his pants one day. My friend in HOUR had to tell him to go home early.

[Anonymous]

Oh, that's just GROSS!! HaHa! My husband and I marvel at night at how these folks have JOBS. How do these people get JOBS?? LOL.

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8:26 --previous boss had a file on me (rather a big black notebook with my name on the spine) and everyone else in the office. All of our wrongdoings and basically everything we did on a day-to-day basis were in this notebook. It was maddening.

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The CEO of the company I worked for hit a guy in sales. She got pissed and just decked him. She got tattoo makeup and had spray tans all the time. I should have known she was crazy because in my initial interview she asked me if I was related to her exhusband because we had the same last name (a very common name).

Another job I had a woman faked having cancer so she could work from home most days.

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We have a crazy cat lady who will tell you all about her many cats, including the dead ones who still communicate with her. She's also known for asking strange questions - usually something having to do with herself and her super special Brooklyn upbringing - when we have speakers at work events. And, she's the reason that we no longer have employee-provided entertainment at work parties. We loved it when the gifted guitarist or the classically trained pianist performed for us, but her dolorous renditions of Christmas carols on a cheap electric keyboard and strange/inappropriate self-composed songs ruined it for everyone.

At a previous job, one of the secretaries faked her daughter's cancer. She got tons of sympathy, time off, and even donations before she was found out and fired. Especially galling since the other secretary really was undergoing cancer treatments at the time (and, sadly, died not too long after the faker was fired). Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

You don't have to say anything. You are weird.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that Jay Leno has had the same thing for lunch everyday for decades. I guess he is weird too?

Yes. Have you ever watched his show? Of course he's weird. You don't think just because someone is rich and famous that they can't be weird, do you?