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

[Anonymous]

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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.

I am 99% sure that I worked for the same person a few years ago.

Is her first name Susan?

No, not susan - but there are probably more people in the same "important" position with the same psychological problems. no, she isn't a fed.

[Anonymous]

her dolorous renditions of Christmas carols on a cheap electric keyboard and strange/inappropriate self-composed songs ruined it for everyone.

I'm sure it did but man I'd love to see a video of that! Sounds hilarious! (when not being forced to endure it)

[Anonymous]

A co-worker who was a compulsive liar. She would lie about everything, but she was really quite good at it. She would lie about sick relatives, taking off time from work to "take care" of them.

When people seemed to be on to her, she would just go tell lies to others, or she would switch divisions.

She would also walk arm in arm with some of the guys in the office, even though her husband worked right down the hall from her.

[Anonymous]

Not an immediate coworker of mine, but a secretary in another division, was getting paid for blowing attorneys at work. Seriously. She was picking up a bit of extra cash on her regular job. She was canned eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not an immediate coworker of mine, but a secretary in another division, was getting paid for blowing attorneys at work. Seriously. She was picking up a bit of extra cash on her regular job. She was canned eventually.

She deserved to be fired. And what, may I ask, happened to the recipients of said blowjobs?

[Anonymous]

Eating the same lunch every day isn't weird. Not washing your hands after using the restroom is weird and gross and yes, people notice.

I have a co-worker who farts, loudly, in people's offices and doesn't acknowledge it. I think there is some type of intestinal issue, but I didn't know that at the time it happened to me.

[Anonymous]

Female coworker that is highly educated but socially inept and can only function as a clerk (and makes 100+K doing it). Wears the same thing everyday, occasionally changes shirt.

Another coworker that constantly talks about being busy and in the same breath talks about spending the day watching movies on the computer. Same coworker also ran out of money and was eating the same thing everyday for a month.

The rest of my coworkers aren't that weird, so I'm lucky.

[Anonymous]

When I was right out of grad school working for a research institute, my office was next to a weirdo's. He had long, stringy facial hair (he looked vaguely Amish but wasn't), wore what looked like the same outfit daily but probably was a revolving wardrobe of similar looking stuff, all comprised of button-down shirts so old they were almost transparent and parnts with wallet outlines. One day his door was partially open and I could see him eating. I knocked with a quick question and he said "come in". He was eating a can of Whiskas cat food. With a plastic spoon. I had seen stacks of Whiska on his desk and assumed it was odd but he must be shopping and taking them home for his cats.

[Anonymous]

I worked with someone who used to take the newspaper everyone shared off the kitchen table, into the bathroom, and then 10 minutes later or so, return it to the kitchen table. UGH. :-O

[Anonymous]

1) Religious lady (mid 30s) would talk all about her previously wild sex life to anyone who would listen (porn/stripping). Would spend all the day on the phone. Something broke at her house (forgot what) but she had no running water and it would take $1500 to fix it. She asked our boss for a cash award to cover the cost. I todl her it would be a bad idea to ask. He said no. Who asks their boss for a cash award for a home repair? WTF
2) Mid 60s lady had at least 50 cans of an assortment of beans (pork n beans, lima beans, black beans) stored in her overhead desk. I noticed them when I went to her cubicle to pick up something. One day I came back and she was eating the beans from the can. No heating just eating them from the can.
3) mid 40s lady would come in late then go to the gym (about 10:30) for 2 hours. Then she would complain about how she always had to work late

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Ok, this is kee than weird. HR needs to get involved. Animal control for wherever she lives should be sent to her home too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating the same lunch every day isn't weird. Not washing your hands after using the restroom is weird and gross and yes, people notice.

I have a co-worker who farts, loudly, in people's offices and doesn't acknowledge it. I think there is some type of intestinal issue, but I didn't know that at the time it happened to me.

Yes, eating the same lunch every day is not nutritionally sound and it's boring as hell.

[Anonymous]

At my old office - this guys - whom many of you have probably seen giving commentary on political issues on MSNBC, Fox News, etc was very overweight at one point and underwent gastric bypass surgery

he lost the weight after his surgery but a couple of years later he, everyday, would order a medium pizza and shut his door and eat all of it and then throw it up in his garbage. I heard him on many occasions.

[Anonymous]

One of my coworkers was trying to cover up a pregnancy - because it was out of wedlock (or she was seeing someone else at the time, can't remember). She told everyone who asked anything about the baby (that she was obviously carrying) that she wasn't pregnant, she had a "medical condition". She didn't tell anyone she had the baby either, except HR because she needed to go on short-term disability. Yeah, it's a medical condition, all right - it's called pregnancy!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating the same lunch every day isn't weird. Not washing your hands after using the restroom is weird and gross and yes, people notice.

I beg to differ. No "normal" person would (or could stomache) to eat the SAME thing EVERYDAY. Sorry but those who do have a few loose screws.