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By Rod

September 25, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

If you think there are alot of wierd people at work, maybe you should look in the mirror. It’s probably just you.

By ....telco...weirdos...

September 25, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

YES!! There is a guy who constantly clears his throat, it’s really obnoxious. But, of course, that is the tip of the weirdo iceberg in my office. My favorite weirdo in the office has to be the woman who has 14 cats, all of which are more than a decade old. One of them is 22 years old, blind and nearly bald. She likes to jump on the trampoline with this cat, and no, honestly I don’t think I could be making this up if I tried. My imagination isn’t quite that good.

By Alexis

September 25, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

There is a young woman in my office who likes to sing in the elevator. She doesn’t care that she isn’t alone, she is in there singing her little heart out. I asked her about it once and she said she is scared of the elevator, but since we work on the 34th floor, the stairs are out of the question, so she sings during the elevator trip to take her mind off of the journey. I wish she could find a different coping mechanism. Her voice is horrible, and when we are stopping on every other floor nearly, it can be a long trip.

By cara

September 25, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

There is a guy who is seriously ill or hurt on a regular basis. He’s in the hospital all of the time or he’s broken something. I feel sorry for him but it’s weird that something has happened every two weeks for the last 4 years. He literally falling apart. Broken ribs, broken arms, feet, ankles, jaw bone, fractured skull (3 times), broken nose, eye socket, collar bone, hip, knee. See what I mean. He’s been in a coma 3 times, two heart attacks, diabetes, high blood pressure, loss of teeth.

How is that for weird???

By Judy

September 25, 2007 1:46 PM | Link to this

What a waste of space.

Someone who clears their throat all the time may have a medical condition. That’s not weird or funny.

Someone afraid of the elevator isn’t weird. She’s scared.

Thank goodness I work for myself. At least I won’t open this blog to see a description of something I do at work that someone else feels is “weird.”

By Toni

September 25, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this

I have a middle age woman who cries all the time. She’s an emotional mess! She has a very smart mouth. She can dish it out so easily but when coworkers come back just as strong, she want to break down and cry. The entire dept will laugh at her. Before her husband retired, he was banned from our dept. Whenever someone would make her cry, he would come & try to approach the person who made his spoiled, short, box shaped, ugly wife cry. She has a son who is 10yrs old & weighs bout 160. He is a big cry baby too. He call her at work all the time crying about nothing. Everyone knows she is raising a big ole sissy!

By John

September 25, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Probably not weird, but I didn’t need to hear two of my female co-workers discuss their C-Sections for nearly an hour yesterday…

By Disgusted

September 25, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

Weirdest in my lifetime: The woman who wanted to be a man and thus dressed in a man’s suit before coming to work each day. She hooked up with the male graphics specialist who wanted to become a female. Both tried to sue the employer because the health plan didn’t cover sex change operations. After that, I’ll gladly join the team of the woman who sings in the elevator.

By Maria

September 25, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

I find that once you get to know someone pretty well, there are always a few aspects of their personality that put them into the “weirdo” category. And in that respect, I like working with weirdos. It just means I must know my co-workers pretty well.

Now, when I’ve known someone for a while and can’t find anything weird about them, that’s when I start to get a little worried. Somebody with no quirks, no hangups, no psychological oddities… those are the people I’d rather avoid.

By Hotc-totc

September 25, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

Our supervisor use to be a body builder, he brought in the photos one day to prove it… Needless to say we got to know him alot better than you should ever get to know your supervisor. Hope you all are having a great day!!

By BJ

September 25, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

Dear John, If they had c-sections, I am relieved that they are female.

By Becky

September 25, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

I could write a book about people in my office that are weird (myself included). I guess one of the the weirdest is the woman that lives with her Mother & calls home about 8-10 times a day..Out of all of these calls 3-4 are to ask what are the dog & cat doing?

By angela

September 25, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

I’ve got a chronic nail-clipper in the office next to mine. It happens every single day during lunch. Instead of leaving for lunch, he cracks his door to watch tv and clip his nails. Fingers and toes. Loudly, and for about 10 minutes. I’m all about hygiene but that’s why we have private bathrooms at home!

By Carole

September 25, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

I used to work in an office a few feet away from an extremely strange woman. She absolutely hated the sound of typing. (Keep in mind we work in an office and 90% of our work is done on the computer!) Not her OWN typing, but other people’s typing. Whenever I would type something for longer than 30 seconds, she would say, “What are you typing? Is it a personal email? If so, could you do it when I’m at lunch?” When I replied back that it was indeed business, she would say, “Oh…ok…” and get up and shut her office door in a huff. She also hated the sounds of: anyone eating mints, foot tapping, gum chewing, putting a pen cap on and off, and any noise the office air conditioner made. About once a week she would get in an incredibly bad mood for no apparent reason, where she would slam her office door, yell at the boss and stomp around the office. I think she needed a therapist and some happy pills.

By leigh

September 25, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this

What are the dog and cat usually doing? Just wondered.

Maybe they are discussing the weird pets down the street.

By Becky

September 25, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this

Maria, you are so right about that….

By Becky

September 25, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

Leigh, I try not to find out..LOL..She will try to tell us,but I usually tune her our as much as possible..

By Kasia

September 25, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

Years ago I worked at a small office with a woman who’s boyfriend would show up every day. He would walk up and down the sidewalk outside our building and tell people to move their cars or he would give them a ticket. Thinking he was a cop, they would usually oblige, although there were a few altercations with people who knew better — you see, he wore a security guard’s uniform and had an old police car with a police spotlight on the driver’s side, and he would try to make people think he was a cop! The woman was no better. When my close workmates in the office and I would have a private conversation, we would whisper — because, like I said, it was a small office — and that woman would reply with a comment, clear across the room! After months of trying to talk quieter and quieter, and with her still hearing what we were saying, and joining in our private conversations (uninvited), we finally figured out that she was using a Whisper2000!!!

Another incident involved a woman who apparently had a mental illness, but we didn’t know that when she first arrived. She would talk — I mean, really talk — to her computer and then start shaking violently in her chair! When I finally asked her what was wrong, she said that she was being electrocuted by her computer program. She also laid down in the middle of a restaurant parking lot and wouldn’t get up off the ground. When she was “let go”, she told me she left her phone number on the wall and that I should give her a call — it was written in what looked like “aliens from outer space” handwriting. I couldn’t read it, not that I had any intention of calling… I actually feel sorry for her — as weird as the events were — I hope she gets some help! How many people do you know, who at every opportunity, or even if there isn’t an opportunity, mention that they have a degree? There’s this guy I work with who is very nice and amiable. The thing that we chuckle about is that whenever he can get his comment in, he lets us know that he majored in English and/or at what university he majored in English, and how beneath him it is to be doing the job he’s doing, since he is an English major! LOL!

How about all the people you’ve known who SWEAR they are quitting smoking, but smoke up all your cigarettes for months or years before you have the nerve to cut them off — then they don’t like you anymore?

This subject could go on forever… ahhhhhh… LIFE!!!

By Hunter

September 25, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

I think Alexis has a pretty funny office mate. But I can top it — I have a man in my office who can not stand the door to be closed on anyone’s office. Now, I know someone is going to say he is claustrophobic or something, but thats not the case. He isn’t even inside the offices, he will be walking down the hall past my office and if my door is closed he will open it, and say “you will thank me later”. He opens everyone’s doors if they are unlocked. He has been written up twice for invading private meetings. Very odd duck. I wonder how he drives home with his closed door phobia….

By Kasia

September 25, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

Carole: Have you ever thought of getting her earplugs for Christmas? I’m glad you wrote that you “used” to work with her — I wouldn’t want to work with her either. She would HATE me! I type 98 wpm! Now, THAT’s noisy! LOL!!

By Kasia

September 25, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this

To Hunter: I couldn’t resist commenting on your blog! That is a good one! Did you ever ask him why he says, “you will thank me later”? Maybe he was in a burning building once? I bet he drives a convertable — with the top down, even when it’s raining!!

By The Wookie

September 25, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

I have one at work that doesn’t shower, shows up late to work every day, takes 2 hour lunches, leaves early, doesnt shave until his beard is so long it catches on fire when he lites a cigarette, yet for some reason he doesnt get fired. I need a new job.

By Becky

September 25, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

Had a coworker once that would come in & tell us that her boyfriend would make her stand in the middle of the living room each morning & make a complete circle around, so that he could approve of what she was wearing to work..Then she wondered why we told her that she was crazy..Didn’t help that she was the VP’s sister in law..We always told the boss that she was straight out of the twilight zone..

By Hunter

September 25, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

Kasia, I have never asked him why he says I will thank him. The burning building theory is a good one. I am actually afraid to talk to him, he is very odd. One of those people who talks about Star Trek characters as though they were real people that he hangs out with. I am actually a bit scared of him.

By MonkeyBone

September 25, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this

I have this coworker that does the robot while at their desk

By MonekyBone

September 25, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this

The same coworker hoards snickers in their desk, when I spotted her, she started to lock it. So one day I asked Ashley got snacks, and she said no, I was like yes you do, you have an entire candy store in your desk. She said I was being aggressive towards her and to leave her and her candy store alone, I said fine. The next day anonymously, I placed a liquorish cheeseburger and added a note that said crabby patty for you, she suspected is was me

By Lynn

September 25, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

Our agency mgr. has not showered in about 5 years. His housekeeper told us that he actually had cob webs in his shower. He honestly thinks that jumping in the hot tub every day is equal to a bath. On occasion he and his wife do get in the lake with a bar of soap, but good grief, it’s lake water they rinse with. Not only that, we never eat at the the team meetings. His housekeeper also told us that after the mtgs they make her take all the cups and plastic untensils from the trash and wash them to use again. They reuse all trash bags until they fall apart and re-freeze food from the meetings to make other dishes with later. I found that out too late after getting a really bad case of food poison. Now I just politely say “I’ve eaten” every week and hope that no one else gets sick. I try to warn some people but it’s hard to do when your at the culprits home.

By Job30339

September 25, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this

I have worked with many strange people…. First I use to have a person in the office who use to start conversation with their selves and when you answer them because you think they are talking to you she would get mad….. Then I had another coworker who was in a cube and once a hour they would pull off their shoes and scratch their feet and try and smell them and see if they stink… She thought no one was looking. My other coworker was a guy who couldn’t keep his hands from down there..and scratched all day… Then wanted to touch people….. Then I had a boss who always goes to the bathroom the same time I do and would sit on the toilet and grunt like she was in labor. Then all of sudden you hear this little plop and she was done……. I had to hit myself to stop from laughing… Just horrible!!!

By Kasia

September 25, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

To Hunter: Well, if he thinks that he’s “hanging out” with Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Doctor McCoy, Lt. Uhura or any of the other “goodies” of the Enterprise crew, then it’s probably safe to talk to him. If he thinks he’s hanging out with Romulans, Klingons, androids or giant power-sucking amoebas, I’d say it would be best to avoid him. BWAAAAHaHaHa!!!

Actually, I’ve known people like that, and although they were so caught up in a story that they talked like the characters were real (including some who spoke a made-up Klingon language, which I thought was really, really stupid), they were usually pretty harmless, if not completely living in a “LaLaLand” dream world. He’s probably just a big kid, and probably very lonely (unless he has friends who are “into it” as much as him). Without knowing your “weirdo”, I wouldn’t say either way whether or not you should talk to him, but I always give people a chance — you never know, he could turn out to be a nice guy — or maybe he’s just crazy.

I used to see a guy on the metro bus (up North) who would talk to himself out loud about werewolves and vampires. Everyone was afraid of him, including me. But we all felt sorry for him because he was obviously deranged.

By where do I start?

September 25, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

Oh my gosh, where do I start? Working in an office is not for the intolerant, which unfortunately I am sometimes.

By GenXDen

September 26, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

@Judy…I’m glad you work for yourself as well…after all, who would want to work with a weirdo that responds to blogs that she thinks are a waste of time!? HAHAHAHAHA…Joke’s on you, kiddo!

I used to work with this woman who we called “ripple”. We called her this because we all thought she was drinking cheap wine in her car on her lunch hour. It was the only way we could account for her lifting her feet into the air and pivoting her body to step over curb bumpers in the parking lot. It was actually quite a sight to behold!

I also did a little stint of voluteer work in Ft. Lauderdale. Two of the other volunteers were REALLY into cross dressing at the functions that we held to raise money. I’m not saying that transexuals, transgendered, drag queens or cross dressers are “weird” (even though I don’t claim to understand the need)…but I AM saying that dressing in a lime green chiffon prom gown whilst wearing some sort of Patty Duke throwback wig is, walking like someone is pulling you while you’re standing on a skateboard and STILL managing to look like a linebacker is a bit much.

They do say that variety is the spice of life!

By Am I the only normal one?

September 27, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

I work with a 56 year old man (of which little is to be desired) who went to Russia and purchased a 25 year old bride. He talks to her all day long on the phone (very loudly) for updates on were she is going, what she is eating and what she is wearing. Through these conversations we hear him fussing at her for spending too much money, making her haircut and doctor appointments, blast her when she sleeps in and forgets those appointments and expressing his disappointment when she makes plans with her friends and doesn’t invite him. In between we hear baby talk to her which is more than most of us can stomach before lunch. Being a big SC Gamecocks fan, we hear his remaining conversations to his best friend about play by play action of the previous game and HS recruits they hope to obtain. He also yells at bill collectors for his wife’s purchases because she doesn’t know what she is doing and they should give her a break. His cube in a shrine to SC Gamecocks and he has inter-office envelopes taped on the window to shade his cube. He constantly complains on how stressful his job is and the overtime he works …… you would think his job would be a little easier if he actually accomplished something during the day than talk on the phone!

By You're not the only one

September 27, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

The cube dweller next to me has an alarm set for 7:30 a.m. so he can call his parents. He checks in with them every day after lunch as well, to let them know what he had for lunch and who he went with.

He’s 54 years old.

By kt

September 27, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

I worked with a lady at my old job that would get up & go to the bathroom right before she ordered her food & tell the person next to her to order for her?? She was over 50 and her computer skills were not good. I would tell her what to click & she would act like she was scared the computer would blow up or something!

By My Weirdo Coworkier

September 28, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

There is this guy that regularly is on the net watching porn. I think he is whacking off in the next cubicle because I can hear him breathing heavily….Then it stops then I hear a sigh of relief….Then he falls asleep or sometimes he goes downstairs and have a smoke….Having a smoke after whacking off…..That’s weird to me. I do get sleepy when I whack off at work. I just go and get in my car and take nap for lunch. I like to get mine off in the morning so I can sleep during my lunch break.

By Bobby F.

September 28, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

I thought I was the only one that whacked off at work. It helps when you work next to a sexy young babe that loves to show you how pretty her a$$ is in her tight outfits….Too bad she’s the bosses daughter.

By pr

September 28, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Bobby, I hope your boss see this………you deserve unemployment my young friend. GROW UP - THIS MAY COST YOU A JOB EVENTUALLY!

By Bobby F.

September 28, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

Hey pr,

I wish it was your daughter because right now she would be under my desk doing what she do best. I call her Blow Job Betty.

By Fun@work

September 28, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

pr,

Why are you so uptight? What’s wrong with the guy looking at an a$$. He is not doing the bosses daughter. I’m sure he is not the only one that looks at her. If she wants to be slut, let her be one. If the boss won’t talk to the daughter wearing inappropriate clothing to work, then who will? Although I think it’s weird to whack off at work, to each it’s own. Some of you bloggers get too serious about this. It’s only for entertainment. I think you are the one that needs to GROW UP…..You are probably the anal Weirdo in the office passing judgement on everyone.

By rj

September 28, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

I have a coworker who picks his nose constantly. I never shake his hand. I don’t want on slimy booger on me.

By William The Geek

September 28, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

Now this one if for everyone. Be aware of the coworker that takes a dunk in the bathroom and never washes his hands. You can hear him farting and dropping bombs in the toilet. He comes out and look at you like you are weird for washing your hands. So what I do, I let him touch the door handle and I catch the door with my foot so I don’t have to touch the door. And since we are on the upper floors, I don’t ever touch the elevator button with my finger. I’m certain he has pushed it a few times during the day. I bet that’s how the guy in one of the previous posts got “so-called” food poisoning. It was not food poisoning my friend….It was E. Coli….Be careful out there people….!! I hope my boss is not reading this…If so, I’m FIRED!!

By ISeeDumbPeople

September 28, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

Is it possible for guys to suffer from PMS?? LOL