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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

The bean thing is really weird. Not as weird as the cat food eater, but really, really weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I eat the same breakfast and snack every day, but it's because I count calories and what I eat will hold me over until lunch. I've tried other breakfast foods, but somehow I would end up famished by lunch. And some foods (eggs) give me stinky burps, which will annoy my cube-mate. Same lunch over and over versus stinky burps...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I eat the same breakfast and snack every day, but it's because I count calories and what I eat will hold me over until lunch. I've tried other breakfast foods, but somehow I would end up famished by lunch. And some foods (eggs) give me stinky burps, which will annoy my cube-mate. Same lunch over and over versus stinky burps...

Doesn't matter to me WHY you do it. But just know that your I, along with your cubemates (and anyone else who knows) think YOU ARE WEIRD. No two ways about it, if you eat the SAME THING EVERY SINGLE DAY, then you are WEIRD.

[Anonymous]

Coworker 1 was a woman in her 60s. She quit after less than a full week and wanted to get paid for a full week (which she didn't work). When my boss only paid her for the hours she worked, she had her OLDER brother call and threaten to beat up my boss.

This boss had an alcohol problem. He would frequently set up meetings in the morning with other organizations and not show up. When his girlfriend kicked him out, he slept on a couch in the office. He ended up getting arrested for an open container combined with warrents for traffic tickets with some child support issues thrown in. He was eventually fired for falsifying documents after I left.

Instead of doing his actual job, coworker 2 drew up a plan to help the boss get his life back on track, which included stopping drinking and smoking so much pot. One night coworker 2 and the boss were smoking up together in a car in the office parking lot.

Coworker 3's only previous job experience turned out to be in a microscopic nonprofit funded solely by her sugar daddy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

PP, where do you work?? I'd love to send my resume to your office.

As far as your socially inept coworker goes, do you think she wears the exact same outfit everyday, or just owns multiple versions of the same outfit? The reason I'm asking is, I used to have a female boss who always wore gray pants, every single day, but they only looked alike, and, in reality, were multiple pants by different designers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

Well, as long as he didn't use the newspaper to wipe his butt..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I eat the same breakfast and snack every day, but it's because I count calories and what I eat will hold me over until lunch. I've tried other breakfast foods, but somehow I would end up famished by lunch. And some foods (eggs) give me stinky burps, which will annoy my cube-mate. Same lunch over and over versus stinky burps...

Doesn't matter to me WHY you do it. But just know that your I, along with your cubemates (and anyone else who knows) think YOU ARE WEIRD. No two ways about it, if you eat the SAME THING EVERY SINGLE DAY, then you are WEIRD.

Don't worry, same lunch eaters. There are only a few fools out there (like our friendly yelling PP above), who think you're weird. They may not be weird, but they certainly are judgmental douchebags.

I can't even believe that "same lunch every day" is in this post along with a guy who eats CAT FOOD. THAT is weird. Not eating a turkey sandwich every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I eat the same breakfast and snack every day, but it's because I count calories and what I eat will hold me over until lunch. I've tried other breakfast foods, but somehow I would end up famished by lunch. And some foods (eggs) give me stinky burps, which will annoy my cube-mate. Same lunch over and over versus stinky burps...

Doesn't matter to me WHY you do it. But just know that your I, along with your cubemates (and anyone else who knows) think YOU ARE WEIRD. No two ways about it, if you eat the SAME THING EVERY SINGLE DAY, then you are WEIRD.

Don't worry, same lunch eaters. There are only a few fools out there (like our friendly yelling PP above), who think you're weird. They may not be weird, but they certainly are judgmental douchebags.

I can't even believe that "same lunch every day" is in this post along with a guy who eats CAT FOOD. THAT is weird. Not eating a turkey sandwich every day.

NP here. I don't think it's weird to eat the same lunch everyday. I have the same breakfast everyday, but it's because it's easy, nutritous,and it's out of habit.

[Anonymous]

Not my coworker, but a friend's: guy ate tuna fish sandwich every day. While sitting on the toilet. Doing his business.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Anonymous]

At one place I worked we had a temp who called in one day to say her son had died and she needed to take 2 days off. We all felt awful for her. About a month later we found her passed out in the bathroom - apparently she was a heroin addict. Then we felt even more awful for her, although she did get fired. I hope she's OK now.

[Anonymous]

My office is just like the show The Office, I swear. My boss is exactly like Steve Carrell and doesn't care at all. We also have a Dwight except he is a coke head. His wife is really sweet but she is from another country and has no idea.
My boss looked at me over dinner with another coworker and some clients amd said "I'm sorry I can't pay attention to a word your saying, I'm not used to you with cleavage.". I was 9 months pregnany

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

PP, where do you work?? I'd love to send my resume to your office.

As far as your socially inept coworker goes, do you think she wears the exact same outfit everyday, or just owns multiple versions of the same outfit? The reason I'm asking is, I used to have a female boss who always wore gray pants, every single day, but they only looked alike, and, in reality, were multiple pants by different designers.

I used to work at a place where the secretaries, with no college degrees, made $60k-$80k and had no worries about getting fired for being lazy and incompetent. And the people who actually did the work that made all the profits had degrees in difficult majors and made less than the secretaries.

[Anonymous]

Years ago I worked with a guy who wore the same sweat-stained white undershirt under the same suit every. single. day. For YEARS. He stunk to high heaven. The word around the office was that once someone left a bar of soap on his desk and that he blew a gasket trying to find out who did it. He was a government employee (thus unfireable.)

And I agree, eating the same thing everyday doesn't belong in this thread. The cat food thing had me nearly pissing myself laughing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My former boss had an eating disorder. She used to keep a bowl of lemon drops on her desk and she would suck the sugar coating off them and put them back. Then she'd offer them to staff and visitors.

No, she has a personality disorder. What a vile person to be offering her spit out food to other people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coworker 1 was a woman in her 60s. She quit after less than a full week and wanted to get paid for a full week (which she didn't work). When my boss only paid her for the hours she worked, she had her OLDER brother call and threaten to beat up my boss.

This boss had an alcohol problem. He would frequently set up meetings in the morning with other organizations and not show up. When his girlfriend kicked him out, he slept on a couch in the office. He ended up getting arrested for an open container combined with warrents for traffic tickets with some child support issues thrown in. He was eventually fired for falsifying documents after I left.

Instead of doing his actual job, coworker 2 drew up a plan to help the boss get his life back on track, which included stopping drinking and smoking so much pot. One night coworker 2 and the boss were smoking up together in a car in the office parking lot.

Coworker 3's only previous job experience turned out to be in a microscopic nonprofit funded solely by her sugar daddy.

PP, this would make an awesome TV show! You may want to sell the rights before any of your coworkers beat you to it.