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

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

I'm the PP - I'm telling you, it's really weird. Imagine being in a bathroom, a group of people even, washing hands, and someone leaves a stall right behind you and heads for the door. Everyone in our office (the women anyway) know she does it.

I am allergic to my soaps and so keep hypoallergenic hand sanitizer at my desk. So I use that as soon as I get back from the bathroom. I do sometimes still scrub my hands with water though.

So in the meantime your germy hands are opening the bathroom door, touching things along the way? If you are allergic to soaps you should still run plenty of water over your hands at a bare minimum.

No. I don’t touch bathroom doors. Either I push it open or I grab a paper towel and open it with the paper towel then throw out the paper towel while keeping the door open with my foot. Trust me, I’m very aware of what I touch etc. but as I say I often was with water anyway.

[Anonymous]

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

I'm the PP - I'm telling you, it's really weird. Imagine being in a bathroom, a group of people even, washing hands, and someone leaves a stall right behind you and heads for the door. Everyone in our office (the women anyway) know she does it.

I am allergic to my soaps and so keep hypoallergenic hand sanitizer at my desk. So I use that as soon as I get back from the bathroom. I do sometimes still scrub my hands with water though.

Thats a lame excuse. At least rinse the fecal matter off with water!

[Anonymous]

Work with a nice guy, fairly good sense of humor in a dry wit kind of way.

Problem is twofold- astoundingly horrible bad breath (I literally hold my breath when he talks near me)

and

really bad dandruff that shows all over his clothes (when he wears dark shirts, often).

Not sure how to handle. Always offering mints and gum. Supervisor is aware but not a clue on how to handle it.

[Anonymous]

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

Hand washing is the single most important thing you can do to prevent transmission and propagation of bacteria and viruses. In these times of Coronavirus and deadly flu outbreaks, this is not a trivial matter. Sheesh...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

I'm the PP - I'm telling you, it's really weird. Imagine being in a bathroom, a group of people even, washing hands, and someone leaves a stall right behind you and heads for the door. Everyone in our office (the women anyway) know she does it.

I am allergic to my soaps and so keep hypoallergenic hand sanitizer at my desk. So I use that as soon as I get back from the bathroom. I do sometimes still scrub my hands with water though.

Why aren’t you bringing soap that you’re not allergic to with you to the bathroom??
Or at the very least your hand sanitizer with you.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Or caring for sick/aging parents.

[Anonymous]

I worked w a guy who is a dead ringer of Trump. He is so quirky and weird. All his marriages were with foreign nationals (3x too). He would stop at the Hotdog stand for breakfast, stink up the joint for the rest of the day. I can go on. So so strange

[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'

Wow... where to begin...

1. Living at home and being unmarried at age 32 isn't weird and don't bother anyone except for the poster. I think you are being really judgmental, as you probably don't know what is going on/has happened in her life.

2. I don't think these habits are that weird - it could be a regional thing. But, as we are in the #metoo era, I don't think it is advisable to say these things in the workplace.

Personally, I think this thread reflects more negatively on some of the posters, rather than their allegedly "weird" coworkers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

I'm the PP - I'm telling you, it's really weird. Imagine being in a bathroom, a group of people even, washing hands, and someone leaves a stall right behind you and heads for the door. Everyone in our office (the women anyway) know she does it.

I am allergic to my soaps and so keep hypoallergenic hand sanitizer at my desk. So I use that as soon as I get back from the bathroom. I do sometimes still scrub my hands with water though.

But you're touching the door, the door handle, and possibly other things. Then we have to touch those same things after your germy hands have touched it. Super gross and not very polite or respectful to your colleagues. Bring your hand sanitizer in with you and use it BEFORE you leave, please!!!

A lot of times I do. But I can open the door without touching a handle and then go directly to my desk where the squirt bottle is. Also, a lot of times I scrub my hands with just water which does a lot, and then do the hand sanitizer at my desk.

Just bring in a big old bottle of hand sanitizer and leave it in the bathroom. Your colleagues will appreciate it because right now they think you're being super gross.

[Anonymous]

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

Hand washing is the single most important thing you can do to prevent transmission and propagation of bacteria and viruses. In these times of Coronavirus and deadly flu outbreaks, this is not a trivial matter. Sheesh...

+1 I can't believe there is one person repeatedly trying to defend his/her actions because of this "allergy to soap" stuff. Either put your own soap or hand sanitizer in the bathroom OR don't use the bathroom. This person doesn't have the right to possibly make the rest of us sick because of his or her poor hygiene.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Hand washing is the single most important thing you can do to prevent transmission and propagation of bacteria and viruses. In these times of Coronavirus and deadly flu outbreaks, this is not a trivial matter. Sheesh...

+1 I can't believe there is one person repeatedly trying to defend his/her actions because of this "allergy to soap" stuff. Either put your own soap or hand sanitizer in the bathroom OR don't use the bathroom. This person doesn't have the right to possibly make the rest of us sick because of his or her poor hygiene.

Seriously. Just leave a bottle of soap you can use in the bathroom. Sure, you may need to replace it somewhat often but just buy it when it goes on sale so you have it for that purpose. I don’t love the soap provided in our bathrooms so I put a bottle of the kind I like in there and other people appreciate it as well. Whatever gets people washing their hands is good with me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Male co-worker who got food poisoning one day after lunch. Small office so 1 male/female bathroom you had to grab a key off the wall to get into, then put the key back when you were done.
He got so sick in there he passed out and after awhile we noticed, then got worried when we knocked and he didn’t answer, then decided we had to open the door.
I picked the lock (Sidebar: proud New Yorker, wowed my coworkers) and when we opened the door there was a combo of vomit, diarrhea and a pants down naked man passed out on the floor.
Poor thing, he was mortified but also moaning in pain,we called EMS but not before I casually (with gloves) grabbed the male porn magazine covered in vomit/diarrhea I spotted by the back of the toilet.
Discarded magazine under piles of newspaper, had housekeeping take it out, never a word spoken.

You are going straight to heaven.

PP here. Laughing so hard! Thank you for this. He already had 5-6 co-workers staring at his naked, vomit and diarrhea covered naked body, so the male porn magazine was just too much for this nice man to bear as well. What a scene!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Hand washing is the single most important thing you can do to prevent transmission and propagation of bacteria and viruses. In these times of Coronavirus and deadly flu outbreaks, this is not a trivial matter. Sheesh...

+1 I can't believe there is one person repeatedly trying to defend his/her actions because of this "allergy to soap" stuff. Either put your own soap or hand sanitizer in the bathroom OR don't use the bathroom. This person doesn't have the right to possibly make the rest of us sick because of his or her poor hygiene.

Seriously. Just leave a bottle of soap you can use in the bathroom. Sure, you may need to replace it somewhat often but just buy it when it goes on sale so you have it for that purpose. I don’t love the soap provided in our bathrooms so I put a bottle of the kind I like in there and other people appreciate it as well. Whatever gets people washing their hands is good with me.

AT LEAST rinse with water. Physically rubbing hands helps remove residue without soap. But just do it for the social respectability and so you don’t gross out the rest of us. Yuck yuck yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Hand washing is the single most important thing you can do to prevent transmission and propagation of bacteria and viruses. In these times of Coronavirus and deadly flu outbreaks, this is not a trivial matter. Sheesh...

+1 I can't believe there is one person repeatedly trying to defend his/her actions because of this "allergy to soap" stuff. Either put your own soap or hand sanitizer in the bathroom OR don't use the bathroom. This person doesn't have the right to possibly make the rest of us sick because of his or her poor hygiene.

Seriously. Just leave a bottle of soap you can use in the bathroom. Sure, you may need to replace it somewhat often but just buy it when it goes on sale so you have it for that purpose. I don’t love the soap provided in our bathrooms so I put a bottle of the kind I like in there and other people appreciate it as well. Whatever gets people washing their hands is good with me.

AT LEAST rinse with water. Physically rubbing hands helps remove residue without soap. But just do it for the social respectability and so you don’t gross out the rest of us. Yuck yuck yuck.

Actually, scratch that. Hand sanitizer is NOT a substitute for washing. The more I think about it, the more grossed out I am by PP walking around with completely unwashed hands. Touching the copier, the coffeemaker, doorknobs, ew!
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