Odd things your co-workers do?

[Fireaxes]

I was sitting in the office at work a few minutes ago, and a odd thing happened. A guy I work with comes in and heads straight to radio, he changes the station real fast and walks right back out.

I wouldn't think that was too strange, like maybe he wanted to check and see if something was on. The thing was he just came in from the break room next door where he was sitting right next to the radio over there. I just went and checked, the radio over there is on and working fine.

I'm still puzzled...

 

[silentvoice71]

My co-workers like to not come into work.......screw stuff up and pisse off to the point of bashing my head against the wall. What part of don't scratch the materials do some of them not understand. It's like I'm speakin some type of alien language. Damn idiots......Oo and don't get me started on the FNGs.....they tell me " I've been welding for 15 years" so I sat ok show me..... Then they lay down god awful welds that if Hellen Keller was still alive she would say it looked like crap..... I'm tired of this I've been welding for ( insert retarded amount of years here) bs. I've been welding for half the time most of them have and I can walk into any job and lay perfect welds....

 

[Mr. Habib]

The strangest thing my co worker does is surf INGO all day. Yeah, you know who you are.

 

[fire259]

My boss will walk in about a half an hour late every morning and walk straight to the back of the shop to the coffee pot. It doesn't matter if there are customers, or if the phone is ringing or anything else. He's like a zombie looking for brains. I've joked about it before and said that if the building was on fire he would walk past the firefighters and through the fire to get to the coffee pot.

 

[E5RANGER375]

my boss makes me play knock knock jokes, and hide n go seek all day. she is 4 but ruthless!

 

[Rayne]

I can't say much about my Boss...he has guns and is on INGO. He's a good sport and take a lot of grief from me most the time.

 

[pute62]

I have a co worker who has his own personal push broom. He keeps it in his locker and every day he gets it out, screws the handle in and starts sweeping. At quittin time he unscrews the handle and puts it back in his locker for safe keeping. Another guy just does absolutely nothing all day, sits on his a** and runs into sh** with the forklift. Oh Wait, that would be me.

 

[mcolford]

Oh where to begin... I have coworkers that wont use the staff restrooms, coworkers that will steal food from others, name on the food or not. One will not eat at a carry-in unless he is the first person to get food, as he trusts no-one's cleanliness at all. I work with a lot of strange people. Donnelly can verify that.

-MColford

 

[aaronsbig16g]

Back when I was just out of high school I worked at McDonald's, I worked the morning shift. There was an older guy that worked with me that was lazy as hell. But when he made the "scrambled eggs" he would eat some of the left overs that I would normally just scrape into the grease trap. It was gross!

 

[Cemetery-man]

Sleeps standing up.

 

[JetGirl]

I don't have anything to add about co-workers...but I'm keeping my eye on this thread because if FoamKiller or Pappy de-lurk and post here, they are TOAST!!

 

[Fireaxes]

I had the guy that would go through the fridge and steal your food. Once he took one of my cans of pop, opened it and took a drink. He then put it back in the fridge and left it there for me to find the next day. Must not have liked that kind.

Made my day when he got transferred.

 

[schafe]

The strangest thing my co worker does is surf INGO all day. Yeah, you know who you are.

Huge coincidence!! My coworker does the same thing. Doubt that you know him, though.

 

[Donnelly]

Oh where to begin... I have coworkers that wont use the staff restrooms, coworkers that will steal food from others, name on the food or not. One will not eat at a carry-in unless he is the first person to get food, as he trusts no-one's cleanliness at all. I work with a lot of strange people. Donnelly can verify that.

-MColford

True dat.

 

[SWAMPMASTER]

True dat.

Ok I give where is this at

 

[schafe]

Years ago, I worked for a guy who would come into the lab during lunch, while we were all eating our brown bag lunches, and have a business meeting, during which he would proceed to eat from our lunches, which were laid out on our benches.
One time one of my co-workers had had enough, and found a nasty ol' bag of sour cream and onion chips festering and moulding in the dumpster out back. He tore the bag flat and laid the chips out at his bench. ...You guessed 'er....boss started snacking on the chips. Osama Bin Laden notwithstanding, revenge was sweet!!!

 

[sepe]

Based on the amount of time most people spend on the internet while at work, I'm surprised nobody has said "they actually work".

 

[Ashkelon]

Years ago I had a co-worker with a sex addiction issue that crashed our server by visiting over TEN THOUSAND porn sites in less than a month.

All the cookies or whatever they are called bogged down our network so bad it just crash us all down.

He would save images and e-mail them to all of the male employees as if he thought we all shared the same crazy desire to click click and click.

He would lock himself in his office constantly to finish himself off.

He got fired when the network crashed.

In that office internet porn was not just tolerated it was graded for quality by a few of the guys. Sheesh. Talk about a hostile work environment.

 

[JBrockman]

Worked with a guy at American Bearings in Indy years ago that would walk up to your table P/U your cigarette pack take a couple and walk off! bought a box of junk at a auction that included a carton of cigs that were made of cabbage leaves and not tobacco! needless to say he quit taking my cigs!

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

From a former job:

Fmr coworker who -

-was militantly anti-cheese. When he'd order a hamburger (usually a double or triple...), and there was a tiny bit of cheese from the cheeseburger prepared before, he'd take the whole thing back

-would eat fast-food 3-4x a day

-never brush his teeth; then complain about the pain caused from his annual "deep cleaning" at the dentist

- eat paper / cardboard. Not just chew on it & spit it out, mind you. He'd EAT IT. This happened before I got there, but evidently they'd ordered a replacement part to repair the drill rig. Said part came in a paperboard box. Said part ended up being incorrect. When they went to return/exchange it, they couldn't because doofus ate the box.

- would ONLY drink diet soda due to sugar... But eat triple burgers + biggie fries + frosty for lunch. And when he'd visit a gas station for another soda, he'd like to buy those packages of "creme horns". The kind that there are 3-4-5 in a package, foam backer, wrapped in cellophane, etc. Well, he'd eat all the creme horns at once. Then he'd proceed to lick the cellophane & foam in order to get ALL the creme. But he'd only have diet soda because he was watching his blood sugar.

- because he was SO on top of monitoring his blood sugar, he once SHATTERED his big toe and didn't know about it for a month. Worked for a month straight with "some pain" and a slight limp. Once he finally did go to the dr and get X-rays, he was in a walking boot and off field duty for a few months. (and about a year ago, again because he's SO on top of monitoring his blood sugar, he had a have a toe amputated)

- ol' boy was, at one time, about 350lbs. 6'3 or 4, but still a BIG guy. And sweaty. Didn't like to wear/use deodorant. Another fmr co-worker actually went & bought a can of cinnamon-scented air freshener to spritz the guy's vehicle with so it'd be palatable for someone else to drive

- we traveled extensively for work...ALL over Indiana. Ol' boy LOVED trains. Seriously loved trains. To the point where we weren't surprised to have a rig break-down if we were working anywhere within 50 miles of a train yard/museum/train repair place. When we were working anywhere near French Lick, he'd sleep in a train car at the railway museum, just so he could tinker on crap after we were off work. Even in the winter. Unheated train car.

- due to his fast-food & creme horn habits, it caused him an octuple bypass surgery about 3.5 years ago now. To his credit, he lost about 100lbs after surgery. Then he came back to work, back to traveling, and right back to eating fast food every single meal. (but diet sodas!)

I quit there in May of '05; so it's been a good little while, but I'm still close with most of those former co-workers. I still get stories on the guy... Yes, all of the above are ONE guy.


-J-