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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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'

These aren't that weird and don't bother anyone...especially #1.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing most of the PPs are Feds? When I worked for the govt, I had lots of weird stories like this. I can't think of any strangeness in my current office (private company) though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

We had to fire someone (Who definitely didn't need to steal) for stealing tons of weird stuff after hours--random bread out of the fridge, someone's smelly used gym sneakers out of their locker, half a bottle of perfume from someone's desk...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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'

These aren't that weird and don't bother anyone...especially #1.

32 isn't that old, definitely not spinster status. And living at home isn't that weird, especially if you are trying to save money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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'

These aren't that weird and don't bother anyone...especially #1.

32 isn't that old, definitely not spinster status. And living at home isn't that weird, especially if you are trying to save money.

+3
Even if she is bookish, I wouldn't call a 32-year-old a spinster. I also don't think #2 is weird, either. It's a common southern habit to use those labels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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'

These aren't that weird and don't bother anyone...especially #1.

32 isn't that old, definitely not spinster status. And living at home isn't that weird, especially if you are trying to save money.

+3
Even if she is bookish, I wouldn't call a 32-year-old a spinster. I also don't think #2 is weird, either. It's a common southern habit to use those labels.

Yep, just like calling people "hon" if you're from Baltimore.

[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.

Is this Sherwood?

[Anonymous]

My office is a circus. We have a male and female spinster who are in their late 30's/early 40's and live in large houses by themselves with no pets.

We have a 60 year old male who acts like he is in high school by getting pissy at everyone for nothing.

[Anonymous]

Are people here posting from the 1860s? "Spinsters" who live as adults in their own houses? My late grandmother, who would have been over 100 now, used to call single women "bookish." Are you sure you're not the weird ones in your office, with these odd, outmoded descriptions of what is weird?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people here posting from the 1860s? "Spinsters" who live as adults in their own houses? My late grandmother, who would have been over 100 now, used to call single women "bookish." Are you sure you're not the weird ones in your office, with these odd, outmoded descriptions of what is weird?

Agree, I also have a feeling the people posting this relatively normal stuff as weird must be the "weird ones" in real life.

The manager who would unlock our offices at night, go through all our stuff after work hours, and unplug / disconnect our computers to harass us (was not an energy saver thing, he only did it to employees he disliked) ... Thought my gay / lesbian / "spinster" coworkers were, um, "weird." True story, he would update what he thought on his web diary back in the day, and accidentally leave it up for us to read.

Stealing people's food, smearing excrement, and licking all the candy you share with others is weird. Living in a house by yourself, not weird.

[Anonymous]

I used to work with a highly competent, immaculately groomed woman who had one weird quirk: when she cleared her throat, she would make astonishingly loud noises and would go on for a long time, as though she were trying to hock up a hairball. The first time I heard her, I thought she had something stuck in her throat and went over to see if she was okay. It turned out that she did that every day. Several times a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My office is a circus. We have a male and female spinster who are in their late 30's/early 40's and live in large houses by themselves with no pets.

We have a 60 year old male who acts like he is in high school by getting pissy at everyone for nothing.

What exactly does "spinster" mean to you? Because single people living by themselves is not weird. At all. This thread is about weird coworkers, not "Your coworkers: describe their living situations."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is this Sherwood?

NP. One of my administrators is obsessed with Disney and hosts holiday parties in their home which is filled to the brim with Disney stuff. They also wear Disney themed clothes to work.

[Anonymous]

DH's coworker smeared poop all over someone's bathroom - walls etc - at a company function in a home.

[Anonymous]

How is a 32 year old a spinster? Do not get that. Nothing wrong with living at home to save money or living alone either for that matter. What is the obsession with marrying everyone off?