Strange/Odd Behavior from Co-Workers............

gollumcat

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We have it all.

Opened-mouth belching, often farting, close-talker guy who takes over conversations we call Sheldon.

Tough acting guy who never responds when you say hi and struts like a badass we call Flex.

A group of men and women whenever they meet up, they whisper the entire conversation as if in high school.

Foreign guy that microwaves fish.

Same meal every day guy who microwaves garbage that smells worse.

Plus the usual 2 or 3 guys who take personal calls on their cell or speakerphone at their desks.

Are you sure you are not in a sitcom?
 

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We have a hardcore Libertarian who believes in every conspiracy theory there is. He gets so made that all of us are not super riled up about all this stuff he reads about. I'm like dude even if I believed it all there is nothing I can do to change it so I still wouldn't be all riled up about it. He insists people like me are the reason the world is so messed up. The I say if nice, polite, hard working, good parent, good husband people are the problem why are you worried about all these conspiracies?
Act like you keep hearing an odd noise: "hey, you hear that?"

That should keep him busy for awhile.
 

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Used to work with a guy who, after urinating, would drop his pants to the floor in front of the bathroom mirror so that he could tuck in his shirt. Like all the way to the floor. Reminded me of my son when he was 3 years old. This dude was in his 50s.
Hopefully his pants soaked up some of the slop.
 
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A co-worker that clips his nails on a weekly basis. Once you hear the "plink" you can never not hear it. I want to smack the ever loving ish out of him.

Secondly, lady that must get up and move about the office 60+ times a day. Wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't wearing flip flops and a heavy walker.

Lastly, an Indian man that routinely burns popcorn in the break room. Ahole...
 
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A co-worker that clips his nails on a weekly basis. Once you hear the "plink" you can never not hear it. I want to smack the ever loving ish out of him.

Secondly, lady that must get up and move about the office 60+ times a day. Wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't wearing flip flops and a heavy walker.

Lastly, an Indian man that routinely burns popcorn in the break room. Ahole...

Burning popcorn and microwaving fish should be outlawed in every office in America.
 

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I work with a really young tech guy every few weeks. He's a super smart guy but I'm pretty sure he's autistic. This past spring I was eating lunch in my car on really nice days and watched him, more than once, get in his car and have some sort of screaming, curse filled rant. He either did that or turned on podcasts about video games and yelled at that periodically. He's also known to go into a bathroom stall to poop but strips completely naked to do it. Like, socks too. Supposedly you just see bare feet and a pile of clothes under the edge.
We used to have a guy who ate while he pooped. You could be in the stall and hear someone pop open a soda and the crunching of potato chips. I won't even rinse out my water bottle in there because the poop smell might contaminate it.
 
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I work with a really young tech guy every few weeks. He's a super smart guy but I'm pretty sure he's autistic. This past spring I was eating lunch in my car on really nice days and watched him, more than once, get in his car and have some sort of screaming, curse filled rant. He either did that or turned on podcasts about video games and yelled at that periodically. He's also known to go into a bathroom stall to poop but strips completely naked to do it. Like, socks too. Supposedly you just see bare feet and a pile of clothes under the edge.
We used to have a guy who ate while he pooped. You could be in the stall and hear someone pop open a soda and the crunching of potato chips. I won't even rinse out my water bottle in there because the poop smell might contaminate it.

I would keep this guy on my good side at all costs. Future spree killer if I've ever heard of one.
 
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I work with someone who verbally affirms statements made during presentations. A room full of 20 people and the presenter will make a statement and the person will say "Yep!" loudly like the guy from Storage wars. We can have a VP in the room and you will still hear "Yep!" after every other sentence.
 

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Up until about 5 years ago, we had a woman that was a low talker. Everyone had trouble hearing whatever the hell Kate was saying.

Long ago, we had a guy that would eat lunch at the all you can eat Pizza Hut buffet and come back to work and laugh about taking a massive dump that made the whole place smell like ****. Our company has a campus, and his job was such that he did not have to stay at his desk much . He could have easily gone to another building to ****.

Current boss walks around making guitar noises with his mouth. Bow ba ba bow bing!
 
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Are you sure you are not in a sitcom?
It really is and we've given nicknames to many of them.

The main whisperer we call Cesar as in the Dog Whisperer.

The guy wearing a path in the carpet we call Roamer.

The PM who leads our project has 3 desks where he spends a ton of time and has nothing to do with the project, we call Mingler.

Bald spot, angry, swearing guy taking personal cell calls at his desk all day, Friar ****.

Loud, social, desk party lady we call Momma because Big Momma would be insensitive.
 

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I work with a really young tech guy every few weeks. He's a super smart guy but I'm pretty sure he's autistic. This past spring I was eating lunch in my car on really nice days and watched him, more than once, get in his car and have some sort of screaming, curse filled rant. He either did that or turned on podcasts about video games and yelled at that periodically. He's also known to go into a bathroom stall to poop but strips completely naked to do it. Like, socks too. Supposedly you just see bare feet and a pile of clothes under the edge.
We used to have a guy who ate while he pooped. You could be in the stall and hear someone pop open a soda and the crunching of potato chips. I won't even rinse out my water bottle in there because the poop smell might contaminate it.
I can relate to this post; a whole lot.
 

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Worked with a guy that had bronchitis. Coughed and hacked all day long for months. But wouldn't go to the doctor because "what if they tell me I have cancer." Eventually solved when his alcoholic induced panic attack forced us to drive him to the hospital.
 
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I work with someone who verbally affirms statements made during presentations. A room full of 20 people and the presenter will make a statement and the person will say "Yep!" loudly like the guy from Storage wars. We can have a VP in the room and you will still hear "Yep!" after every other sentence.

Sounds like a yes man to me.
 
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Had a guy who would take off his shoes and socks at his desk every day. He had hairy *** feet that stank. He got really pissed off when the big boss told him to knock it off. He tried to claim it was gender discrimination because women could wear open toe shoes.

A guy who hit on/asked out every new female employee who started with the company at or below a certain level. Success rate was zero.

Had a wannabe tough guy who wanted to be a personal trainer and always MMA fought the air at random moments with punches, elbow strikes and kicks. Bragged about his deadlift bro. Also ate fast food every day for lunch and was known to rage eat at times.

A guy who was a TV, music, video games and movie elitist who hated anything popular and loved anything weird and obscure.

Had a guy who nobody really liked, but always tried to make outside of work plans with half the office. One yes equaled 10 future invites.

This was the same guy. The day he got fired was one of the happiest of my professional life.
 

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There was a guy that would walk the hallways and would always have to have his index finger touching the wall. If someone was standing in front of him he would just stand there until the person moved, then he would continue on his way with his finger touching the wall. There was also a guy that would stare at people...until someone would stare back at him then he would flip out and run out the door.
had a boss that did that... simple explanation... he'd been drinking...
used his finger like a "curb feeler" on a car... helped him navigate long hallways without weaving.
 
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Had a roommate in college who would eat while he shat. Weirdest thing ever to me. To his credit it he would eat chocolate and fudge. I’m not joking. You might walk into bathroom (shared suite bathroom in our prison style dorm rooms) and see dude with brown on his fingers and mouth taking a ****. That’ll get you space quick.
 
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Used to work with a guy who, after urinating, would drop his pants to the floor in front of the bathroom mirror so that he could tuck in his shirt. Like all the way to the floor. Reminded me of my son when he was 3 years old. This dude was in his 50s.
This plus the guy that lets his pants hit the floor and puts his hands on his hips while standing at the urinal.
 

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* Had a guy who used to bring a sandwich and Pringle's chips every single day. He would pack 9 chips, because that was the number of bites it took him to finish his sandwich.

* Another dude who would bring a pack of chips to eat with his sandwich and would empty the chips out on the table, then arrange them by size and eat them some smallest to largest.

* A dude who would sometimes stuff food into the pockets of his coveralls and eat while he was working. That was when I was working in the compounding area in plastics processing, which most of the time was really dirty/dusty/hot.

* A guy who would get on the intercom system every shift and belt out a song and he actually thought he could sing.
 

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Had a roommate in college who would eat while he shat. Weirdest thing ever to me.

In Fayette Mall last weekend, in the restrooms by the food court, the floor of the toilet stall featured (among other things) a plate with a few bits of something left and a bunch of napkins on the floor, and there was a Sbarro cup sitting on the TP dispenser. So somebody apparently had lunch while they got rid of their breakfast. :flush:
 

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Work remotely now, but at a previous job had a guy who used to walk around barefoot and take naps under his desk.

Also used to work with a guy who would walk to other departments just to 'cropdust' then come back to his desk.