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

[Anonymous]

Love this thread! Keep them coming!

[Anonymous]

I had a boss who thought practical jokes in a professional environment were hilarious.

She used to really rib a nice middle aged guy about being a "metrosexual." She's about 10 or 12 years older than he is.

She would pick one subordinate to dislike at a time, and that person was in the doghouse for months.

She came to the office wearing matching bandages under his eyes, but denied she'd had cosmetic surgery.

She eventually got fired for time mischarging and screwing a colleague on "business trips." Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

[Anonymous]

Male coworker mid 60s - was given an award (for charitable work - not a part of our job description). He couldn't make it to the award ceremony so he had one of the new commissioners (of our agency) give his acceptance speech for him. Staff never gives speaches at these things. It took the commissioner a good 5 minutes to read it.

[Anonymous]

I used to work with someone who did not like it if you threw something away in her trash can. I was in her office area - she was the receptionist - and threw away a candy wrapper and she pulled it out and handed it back to me.

I also used to work with someone who would only use a particular bathroom stall and would wait right by stall door if someone else was using it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once, in a meeting with my former boss, I counted all of the pictures of her kids in her office. There were 53. I shit you not. Every surface COVERED in pictures of her three kids, including naked bathtime pictures.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Shy pee-er here. IT. Is. Not. Funny.

I stole an Out of Order sign from building maintenance card once and now whenever I have to poop at work, I hang it on the door and turn the lights off. Never been busted since but pooping in the dark is weird.

Ha ha! At my federal agency the lights automatically go off after 10 minutes or so if nobody comes in or out. I often get caught in the stall in the dark and have to stand up or wave my hand or something to make them come back on. I'm afraid that one day someone will walk in just as the lights have gone out and before I manage to get them back on and they will think there is some weird person pooping in the dark.

[Anonymous]

I have a coworker who wouldn't let me use any of her pens when I was signing something at her desk. I had to leave the room to find another one.

Her excuse? Someone did something really gross with her pen once.

I WAS RIGHT THERE!?!?! What was I gonna do.

[Anonymous]

Not the same level as some of the other stories, but odd nonetheless:

Like some of the posters above, I have a coworker who takes her purse everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. She also still types her daughter's papers for her, even though the daughter is a junior in college and - given the amount of gaming she does - presumably has functioning fingers.

[Anonymous]

oh I also once had a coworker who thought her cubicle was her home - she had about 60 stuffed animals hanging off the cloth cubicle walls, she had 20 pairs of shoes and slippers piled up in racks, and would walk around in huge pink fuzzy slippers. I swear I did not make this up.

She also would go grocery shopping once in awhile and cram a weeks' worth of food into our very small work freezer/refrigerator, leave it there for days and complain if someone shifted a frozen pizza onto another shelf or something.

[Anonymous]

Let's say you were annoyed with a co-worker, which everyone loathed. Would placing a heaping pile of crap in front of their office door occur to you as a great idea? If so, would you actually follow through with your brilliant idea? Yeah, he was fired.

The debate still continues - but we think it was actually "his" poop.

[Anonymous]

in the eats the same thing every day department - is the guy that eats hotdogs and sauerkraut every single day for lunch. and sometimes breakfast. EVERY DAY! do you know how much sauerkraut turns your stomach at 9 am? the fridge is currently stocked w/all his fixins. BLEH!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's say you were annoyed with a co-worker, which everyone loathed. Would placing a heaping pile of crap in front of their office door occur to you as a great idea? If so, would you actually follow through with your brilliant idea? Yeah, he was fired.

The debate still continues - but we think it was actually "his" poop.

Bob Packer? Is that you?

[Anonymous]

My coworker keeps binders full of information on everyone he talks to. If he has a conversation, he records it and places it in a binder in sections separated by people's business cards.

[Anonymous]

I work with a guy who likes to smell people's lunches and will express disappointment if the admin doesn't get what he feels like smelling that day for lunch.

[Anonymous]

We had a woman in another department who was on sick leave for a bit. She is a hoarder and if her cube is any indication of her house god help her. Well the office was moving and her thigns had to be packed up during her leave and a dead mouse was found in her cube.

Another co-worker brings her bag/ fanny pack everywhere and then leaves it ont he bottom of the bathroom floor when she uses the bathroom? Nasty!

[Anonymous]

I work with a couple of people, one in particular, who walks around barefooted through our office all day. It's disgusting. Not only do I not want to see your feet, I seriously doubt this floor gets cleaned ever.

I work with someone else who has hearing issues that I think are the reason why he smacks, chomps, and slurps so loudly while he eats that it turns my stomach.