KevRossi wrote: » I worked with a guy who used to work with one of the major German car companies. I wouldn't be able to tell you what he had... Asbergers, autism, or whatever, but he was a kind of savant when it came to materials engineering. Seems he develped something to do with differentials on cars that saved a major car manufacturer about €50 million a year over the course of 10 years. Had a desk that was covered with miniature models of every Pokemon (150?), came and left as he pleased, but usually did a 6 hour day. Very nice, but incredibly shy lad. I'd go to lunch with him with another colleague, 3 people were fine, once a 4th person joined the table he would clam up. He was on way more than the rest of us, but he could have asked for a lot more. He lived in a one bed apartment that was an annex on his sisters house. She looked after him. That was about 12 years ago, he'd be 40 now, I sometimes wonder how he got on in life.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Tell him to try the soup next time.
Gregor Samsa wrote: » He'd drown in that. At the very beginning of lockdown, we had an office video chat, which was obviously the first one he had ever done. He was at home. Someone else said hello to him, and he waved. Then he looked at the hand that he waved as if it had done it all by itself and he was shocked that it moved. Then he waved his other hand, as if he was checking if it could do it too. Then he goes "Sorry, I'm not sure if I waved with my right hand or my left hand. It's confusing".
The_Dark_Lord wrote: Have you ever worked with someone who could be considered strange/eccentric? One guy I worked with years ago had all the charm and tact of a prickly cactus. Not that he was aggressive or antagonistic, but he simply had no people skills whatsoever. To say he was blunt would be an understatement. He made Sheldon Cooper look like Mister Conviviality. He also insisted on wearing a glove puppet when working at his computer. But having said all this, he was a genius at his job.
KevRossi wrote: I worked with a guy who used to work with one of the major German car companies. I wouldn't be able to tell you what he had... Asbergers, autism, or whatever, but he was a kind of savant when it came to materials engineering. Seems he develped something to do with differentials on cars that saved a major car manufacturer about €50 million a year over the course of 10 years.
Stheno wrote: He also prided himself on having no empathy whatsoever
Wanderer78 wrote: » Narcissistic?
Stheno wrote: No just an absolute asshole
Stheno wrote: » I worked with a guy who modelled himself on Stalin, had a biography of Stalin on his desk and when confronted with any problem people would ask you "what would Stalin do?" He also prided himself on having no empathy whatsoever
The_Dark_Lord wrote: » Have you ever worked with someone who could be considered strange/eccentric? One guy I worked with years ago had all the charm and tact of a prickly cactus. Not that he was aggressive or antagonistic, but he simply had no people skills whatsoever. To say he was blunt would be an understatement. He made Sheldon Cooper look like Mister Conviviality. He also insisted on wearing a glove puppet when working at his computer. But having said all this, he was a genius at his job. Have you ever had a work colleague who could be considered strange or eccentric?
Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: » Should have answered "killed a few people and threw their families in a gulag?" just to see his reaction!
bnt wrote: I remember one who was seriously in to cars, far more than usual. While I was there, he started off with a TVR, sold it for another TVR, then sold that for a Lotus Esprit. He should have had his own TV show by now.
TheW1zard wrote: » I had a colleague who we called Jurrasic Park, he kind of looked like the guy with glasses who stole the dna. So did his desk. He'd work all hours, one night he shat his pants and used his shirt to wipe it up. Did a good job of cleaning but in the panic left it all on the another chaps desk. I came in the next morning, I saw the guys whos desk it was standing over this with a director. He had picked up the rag on his desk not realising what it was and got **** all over himself. There was a hilarious investigation carried out by Murray from Flight of the conchords. I was called down as a witness where he had drawn a plan of the office and lots of arrows with times of peoples movements. Obviously no one could prove what actually had happened. The ****ty top and paper was fished out of the bin and used as evidence, and someone recognised the top. Now we all guessed what had happened and the culprit was off that week (happened on a Saturday). Email went around about the 'investigation'. About Tuesday he comes in all flustered to suss the situation out, I asked him what hed been up to and he said he'd been working. A few days later there was a bad smell and we found a load of ****ty paper hidden under another desk. In the end the poor chap fessed up, he called us into a room describing how he had exploded and projectile ****ted all over the place. He was suspended for a week and sent to counselling. I left the company a month later.
Gruffalox wrote: » Ugh no, no one can beat that Although I did once sit beside a guy who opened a can of some kind of solid meat, wodged in a fork, hauled the whole thing out and starting eating it like it was an icepop. Still. Sh1t covered everything is way worse.
Purple Mountain wrote: If there's no strange work colleagues in your job, then you're the strange work colleague.
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