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

[Anonymous]

There is a woman at my office who eats candy all day. Just bags and bags of candy. Her desk is filled with boxes and bags of skittles, jolly ranchers, swedish fish, etc. Its also never chocolate or caramel, just the artificial fruit colleges. During meetings, conference calls, check-ins, you can count on her to be snacking on some candy. The only time I've ever seen her eat "normal" food is at company dinners or when we have lunch buffets. She also is fairly fit with white, straight teeth which makes it even more peculiar.

She once told me that when she was in college, she did not have a meal plan. So inorder to fill herself up, she would eat candy and drink water all day. Based on her seniority, she must have graduated at least fifteen years ago. I guess some habits stick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a woman at my office who eats candy all day. Just bags and bags of candy. Her desk is filled with boxes and bags of skittles, jolly ranchers, swedish fish, etc. Its also never chocolate or caramel, just the artificial fruit colleges. During meetings, conference calls, check-ins, you can count on her to be snacking on some candy. The only time I've ever seen her eat "normal" food is at company dinners or when we have lunch buffets. She also is fairly fit with white, straight teeth which makes it even more peculiar.

She once told me that when she was in college, she did not have a meal plan. So inorder to fill herself up, she would eat candy and drink water all day. Based on her seniority, she must have graduated at least fifteen years ago. I guess some habits stick.

OMG I know a woman like this, too. She is also slim, attractive, and has good looking teeth. But on every Zoom call--quite a lot--I have been on with her she is constantly eating gummies of some sort. She orders those huge 5 pound bags of various gummy bears, worms, etc. from Amazon Prime. It's crazy.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Like she will chew her way through an entire cereal bowl of gummy bears during a one hour meeting.

[Anonymous]

The head of our IT Department wears a long black cape and a silver ring that is a skull. We all bow down to him because he is the best tech problem solver ever. This is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The head of our IT Department wears a long black cape and a silver ring that is a skull. We all bow down to him because he is the best tech problem solver ever. This is true.

LOL!

[Anonymous]

I have a coworker whose only personality trait is "millennial". She only does things that she considers to be trendy in her cohort and acts like these activities are novel. Like "OMG my friends and I went to a pumpkin patch to take selfies!" Ma'am, you are in your thirties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a woman at my office who eats candy all day. Just bags and bags of candy. Her desk is filled with boxes and bags of skittles, jolly ranchers, swedish fish, etc. Its also never chocolate or caramel, just the artificial fruit colleges. During meetings, conference calls, check-ins, you can count on her to be snacking on some candy. The only time I've ever seen her eat "normal" food is at company dinners or when we have lunch buffets. She also is fairly fit with white, straight teeth which makes it even more peculiar.

She once told me that when she was in college, she did not have a meal plan. So inorder to fill herself up, she would eat candy and drink water all day. Based on her seniority, she must have graduated at least fifteen years ago. I guess some habits stick.

OMG I know a woman like this, too. She is also slim, attractive, and has good looking teeth. But on every Zoom call--quite a lot--I have been on with her she is constantly eating gummies of some sort. She orders those huge 5 pound bags of various gummy bears, worms, etc. from Amazon Prime. It's crazy.

Not really that crazy. Those gummy candies will make one go #2 very easily

[Anonymous]

I provided comments on a paper.
The recipient told me you always attack me because I’m Asian!
I had to remind her I’m Asian too.

[Anonymous]

On one interview, the hiring manager had a bucket of candy on her desk. She told me they have this bucket in order to donate to kids at the hospital. At the end of the interview she offered me to get a candy form the bucket. I declined politely. She looked at me disapprovingly.
I did not get the job.

[Anonymous]

I'm a cubicle worker. Mara works on one side of me, and she's great and we're friends. Totally normal.

Sara works on the other side of me and is super weird (although to be fair, totally good at her job and willing to help others). She has "office slippers" that she put on every afternoon after lunch. She ate CONSTANTLY through the day, and always foods that crunch. She watches Youtube videos at her desk. We thought she had a pet bird but she alluded to having an OWL as a pet. She is also hardcore into Harry Potter and her entire cubicle is decorated in Harry Potter stuff. Most people have a couple of pics of their kids, something tactile to play with and maybe flowers or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On one interview, the hiring manager had a bucket of candy on her desk. She told me they have this bucket in order to donate to kids at the hospital. At the end of the interview she offered me to get a candy form the bucket. I declined politely. She looked at me disapprovingly.
I did not get the job.

are you sure you weren't supposed to donate money for the candy?
although that'd be weird, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On one interview, the hiring manager had a bucket of candy on her desk. She told me they have this bucket in order to donate to kids at the hospital. At the end of the interview she offered me to get a candy form the bucket. I declined politely. She looked at me disapprovingly.
I did not get the job.

are you sure you weren't supposed to donate money for the candy?
although that'd be weird, too.

I mean I was an interviewee - a complete outsider. So I did not offer money when she pointed out they collected this bucket of candy.

At the end though, she actually picked up the bucket and with utmost sincerity offered to take a candy moving it towards me.
I forgot to add earlier, she said, well, I’ll take one after I refused. LOL

I track her career on linked because this was fascinating.

She is a big shot now.

If I had to do it again, I’d still not take candy from kids-I tended bucket. Omg

[Anonymous]

* I forgot to add earlier that she said, ‘well, I’ll take one‘ after I refused.
This still so funny - can’t believe it happened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a cubicle worker. Mara works on one side of me, and she's great and we're friends. Totally normal.

Sara works on the other side of me and is super weird (although to be fair, totally good at her job and willing to help others). She has "office slippers" that she put on every afternoon after lunch. She ate CONSTANTLY through the day, and always foods that crunch. She watches Youtube videos at her desk. We thought she had a pet bird but she alluded to having an OWL as a pet. She is also hardcore into Harry Potter and her entire cubicle is decorated in Harry Potter stuff. Most people have a couple of pics of their kids, something tactile to play with and maybe flowers or something.

Do you and Mara giggle giggle about Sara?
This is too funny.
No promotion for Sara for some time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One coworker is a guy who is very nice, but a) he was long fingernails that creep me out. Not dirty at all (he also does latchhook Christmas ornaments when he has idle time--they are liberal about what we do when we are idle, we are IT support), he has narrow fingers and his nails are thin, but somehow icky. Last fall he asked our group if he should shave his head or his beard, and a few of us said he should cut his nails instead. The other thing is that he will come up to you from behind and touch you ever so gently on the back or shoulder to get your attention, which always startles me.

Long nails on men is a major pet peeve of mine. A receptionist at my doctors office has always weirded me out in a way I could never put my finger on. Just recently I noticed he has long fingernails and I thought "Oh it all makes sense, now."

I had a coworker who would pick her nose at her desk. When she volunteered to make a birthday cake for someone, very few people ate the cake.