What's the strangest job or co-worker you ever had?
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Hmm, well a few months ago, I was managing a project that included these two people I work with. One was a female in her mid-40's, has a PhD, three kids, etc.; the other was a male in his early 30's, never married, vegetarian, creative type, etc. You would think these two would get along famously, but they FOUGHT over everything. It got so bad I had to actually stand between their screaming bodies and SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR OFFICES! Yes, that is correct, all of my mommy training stood me in good stead, lol. What was really funny was I had just received a large bonus the day before, and when my boss came back from her all-day meeting, she was like, "Boy, I bet you want to give that bonus back, huh" - lol
Marie
Marie
kathryn
Cathlete
My strangest co-worker is a current co-worker.
A very strange woman. Completely socially inept. Says the oddest things. (Several years ago, on my birthday, she asked me how old I was. I told her, and she said "oh, I thought you were older than that--everyone has always said I look younger!--then added "because you've done so much".) Has very odd vocal intonations.
Enthuses most strangly over the department chair's lunch: "STEVE, that looks SO GOOD!" (standing over him and almost drooling: you've got to be there to really get the idea).
Incompetent at most things except academics. Once she hosted a reception, and spilled a soda on her rug and just stood and looked at it and hemmed and hawed and didn't know what to do, so someone else stepped in to clean it up.
Thinks everything is "GREAT!" (she doesn't seem to have a thesaurus in her office!)
Passive-agressive in that she wants to know how X had such a successful presentation at a conference (so she can do the same thing herself).
Clears her throat constantly in a little "uh uh" way.
Will just walk out in the middle of a conversation.
Uses the faculty-only bathroom on second floor and brings her own soap and uses tons of paper towels (the secretary up there was so weirded-out by it that she mentioned it to our secretary).
Dresses like a stereotypical movie "old-maid librarian."
Acts like a little rodent who's afraid to get attacked and like I'm a bird of prey ready to swoop whenever we cross in the hall.
Everyone in the department unanimously agrees that she's the oddest bird we've ever met!
She's been here 13 years (and I help hire her...what a lapse in judgement!) and isn't getting any better!
A very strange woman. Completely socially inept. Says the oddest things. (Several years ago, on my birthday, she asked me how old I was. I told her, and she said "oh, I thought you were older than that--everyone has always said I look younger!--then added "because you've done so much".) Has very odd vocal intonations.
Enthuses most strangly over the department chair's lunch: "STEVE, that looks SO GOOD!" (standing over him and almost drooling: you've got to be there to really get the idea).
Incompetent at most things except academics. Once she hosted a reception, and spilled a soda on her rug and just stood and looked at it and hemmed and hawed and didn't know what to do, so someone else stepped in to clean it up.
Thinks everything is "GREAT!" (she doesn't seem to have a thesaurus in her office!)
Passive-agressive in that she wants to know how X had such a successful presentation at a conference (so she can do the same thing herself).
Clears her throat constantly in a little "uh uh" way.
Will just walk out in the middle of a conversation.
Uses the faculty-only bathroom on second floor and brings her own soap and uses tons of paper towels (the secretary up there was so weirded-out by it that she mentioned it to our secretary).
Dresses like a stereotypical movie "old-maid librarian."
Acts like a little rodent who's afraid to get attacked and like I'm a bird of prey ready to swoop whenever we cross in the hall.
Everyone in the department unanimously agrees that she's the oddest bird we've ever met!
She's been here 13 years (and I help hire her...what a lapse in judgement!) and isn't getting any better!
My strangest co-worker was a temp - he was a college student, and seemed normal for months until the day he locked himself in my supervisor's office along with my supervisor and told her the Martians were coming to take over Earth, but she shouldn't worry, because he had ordered a spaceship to come take him to Brazil to hide and he would take my supervisor with him ``as a favor'' - she finally got him to go outside to ``look for'' the spaceship, and quickly called security. A few days later, he tried to call us collect from our state mental hospital - wait a minute, I think my strangest co-worker might be the one who accepted the charges!
One coworker has her gas/water/power cut off constantly. She makes good money with overtime so We still can't figure out where her money goes. She also had the nerve to ask our boss what size TV she has when she invited us to the watch the superbowl. She's a strange bird.
Marla
Marla
While in college, I had an office job with this weird guy who would wear a messenger bag and jacket during his entire shift. He always looked like he was ready to jump out of his chair and run out the door. Also, our office had a huge window and when he would see a pretty girl walk by on campus, he would lick the window. I thought he was just trying to weird me out or something until I came back from lunch and saw him doing it with no one around. Ick!
I was reading DH these posts last night...........and "yes" we were laughing at "your expence" haha ................and he remembered a strange co-worker he worked with so............
THE FOLLOWING HAS A GROSS FACTOR OF 5 STARS.........BE WARNED
DH worked in a office a few years ago across from a co-worker who always used to pick his nose and put it under the desk like chewing gum
HOW BAD AM I PEOPLE?.......... BUT YOU WERE WARNED!
Marion
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking when she was 60. Today she is 97 and we don't know where the hell she is! - Ellen DeGeneres
THE FOLLOWING HAS A GROSS FACTOR OF 5 STARS.........BE WARNED
DH worked in a office a few years ago across from a co-worker who always used to pick his nose and put it under the desk like chewing gum
HOW BAD AM I PEOPLE?.......... BUT YOU WERE WARNED!
Marion
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking when she was 60. Today she is 97 and we don't know where the hell she is! - Ellen DeGeneres
After reading all these, my college summer job counting mosquitoes sounds pretty tame. I rode around the county collecting samples in a truck with a big picture of a mosquito on the side. My 'office' was in a converted dairy barn. There was some weirdo who worked there had a crush on me and would weld (yes, I said weld) me little gifts that I would find on my desk or on my car. He even welded my initials onto the ditch digger equipment. And my greasy, married boss was having an affair with one of my neighbors. To add insult to injury, the summer I worked there the local paper decided to run a story on the mosquito commission. A picture of me with my microscope (and pile of dead mosquitoes) made the front page.
One benefit I got from the job is that it was a great icebreaker when I started interviewing for 'real' jobs. People would see that on my resume and would always to ask me about it.
One benefit I got from the job is that it was a great icebreaker when I started interviewing for 'real' jobs. People would see that on my resume and would always to ask me about it.
Another coworker is like 41 years old & never been married. Personally I think she is just so pushy she looks desperate. The thing is, she started dating guys she meets online. Well just last month, she met some guy that she let spend the day at her apartment while she was working & let him use her car because "it was his birthday." Well needless to say he never showed up to pick her up after work, took off with her car & was apparently renting it out to some kids for cash.
She did get her car back but we gave her a lot of flack for that. She being a grown woman & just knowing some guy for less than 2 weeks. It's sad.
Marla
She did get her car back but we gave her a lot of flack for that. She being a grown woman & just knowing some guy for less than 2 weeks. It's sad.
Marla