Strange Co-workers..

[Spawn67]

Ever work with someone or even had a boss who you thought was odd or weird? I know we all have our own definition of strange but I had to ask. My co workers think Im weird..
But seriously Im always amused by these stories..

[HardyGirl]

Well, basically all of my co-workers and boss think I'm strange and weird, but it's cool, 'cos I'm loved.

[johnnystorm]

I used to work with a woman who washed her clothes in a pit of water from a well in her basement. They didn't have running water and drank from water jugs they filled up at a spring. She also made her own clothes ( not very well either). One day she had an " accident " in her pants and she washed them in the ladies room sink and dried them under the hand dryer all through lunch. But her pantyhose she left draped over a stall door to dry. She also raised bees and sold honey along the road. And no, she wasn't Amish! This was back in the 80s , she died about a year ago.

[fallensaviour]

My mom used to tell me there is always one weirdo on the bus,no matter how hard I looked I could never see him?

[alex]

I worked for one company, where we had a woman who reckoned she was a gay man trapped in a womans body, and she used to chase around this one gay guy in the office, who had the sterotypical look, black levi's, short haircut, bushy tash, but he was having none of it

[Brazoo]

Oh man - for most of my normal jobs I think I was considered the strange one - BUT ---

---for a couple of years I worked at a place laying out a classified newspaper, and the characters who worked in the sales department were so bonkers that when I tell stories about them nobody believes me.

There were three of us working in production, and we got our own office cut off from the rest of the company. Basically every time our office door opened we expected something insane to happen.

Some brief highlights:

• A sales guy in his 50s - kinda looked and dressed like Jim Steranko, you know, that slick but dated style? He had silver streaks in his slicked back hair and thick tinted glasses. He ALWAYS pulled his pants all the way down to the floor when he stood at the urinal. Once tried to tip my co-worker with a tiny baggie of coke for correcting something on one of his ads.

• A woman suffering from schizophrenia. Apparently, she was a long time family friend of the owners and they wanted to help her out. Which seems nice, but we were also pretty sure they were using her disability for some kind of scam. She often brought garbage bags full of dirt and dead plants to the office - and that's just for starters.

• The most neurotic person I ever met in my life. It's impossible to describe her effectively in a line or two, but picture the Wicked Witch of the West, the Chicken Lady from "The Kids in the Hall" and unfunny Woody Allen all got merged together in "The Fly" machine and came out chain smoking. During one of her many breakdown-style rants we finally convinced her she needed to leave our office because we had a pile of work to do, so as she left she screamed "My hair looks like a goddamn rat's nest!" before slamming our office door. When things got dull we would yell that at each other and it always got a huge laugh.

• A guy who would beg for sales on the phone. If we were in the other office we'd overhear him going "Ooh, come on. Please! I could really use this!" The weird thing was that he did seem to get a fair amount of sales. After a while we found out why: unauthorized credit card charges. He was eventually arrested.

The company was purchased by a larger corporation. They almost instantly decided to keep our department and gut the rest of the company, so that ended the wild days.

[Spawn67]

Ok now my turn since I started this thread....

I worked with a guy who came dressed to work as a Knight! Yes with full on with helmet and everything except he wore pants. He eventually got fired for threating to kill someone after they grabbed his long hair. He put a knife to their throat.

One guy I worked with was going through a SERIOUS midlife crisis. He was about 44 at the time but acted as if he was 21 and younger. He recently got a divorced and bought a sportscar, dyed his hair bleach blond, went to college frat parties, went to college bars, dressed young, hung out at the mall, would play music he clearly didn't like but pretented he did. etc etc

[TomStrong]

I don't have any stories that would stand up to these! I have laughed out loud at these. Hope people share some more.

[The Bat]

My mom used to tell me there is always one weirdo on the bus,no matter how hard I looked I could never see him?

[Gorn Captain]

I had a co-worker who tooks naps on top of her computer keyboard.
When she moved, you heard the sounds of the keyboard.
When she woke up, she had rows of letters imprinted in her cheek or forehead.

[MEMEGO]

Werid,werid? Whats that whos werid, im not werid.bbbbaaaaahhhhaaaaaaa!!!!!!!