Weird people you work with

star.chaser · 10-09-2009 10:06AM #1

Recently started work with a new company. Large open plan office. This one girl on my floor from; lets say from one of the founding member countries of the EU, seemed normal enough at first, maybe a bit on the quiet side. So i begin to notice little things. She wears this kind of homemade uniform like a cleaners pinny with the word Geek embroidered on it. Then, when shes around this other guy of the same nationality, they begin to make weird noises to each other. like animal noises or something and they both just laugh and tell everyone, they can understand each other. Turns out they're both Trekkies. What topped it all off was when she arrived into work one day with her hair dyed luminous green and its been like that now for months.

Last company i worked for had a woman of the same nationality that started off wearing a high visability jacket on the journey to and from work (on the bus?) but after a while was wearing it like a normal piece of clothing around the office. Used to have this weird habit of randomly jumping up while talking to you?? Asked management if it would be ok if she brought her space hopper into work to replace the chair at her desk (management said it might not be a good idea as she might end up bouncing out the window! we were on the fifth floor).

Anyone else have any similar experience of weird people they work with?

Professey Chin · 10-09-2009 10:10AM

Im definately the weirdest in my office so I cant judge

star.chaser · 10-09-2009 10:12AM

well tell us some of the weird things you've done?

Jumpy · 10-09-2009 10:14AM

star.chaser wrote: »

Recently started work with a new company. Large open plan office. This one girl on my floor from; lets say from one of the founding member countries of the EU, seemed normal enough at first, maybe a bit on the quiet side. So i begin to notice little things. She wears this kind of homemade uniform like a cleaners pinny with the word Geek embroidered on it. Then, when shes around this other guy of the same nationality, they begin to make weird noises to each other. like animal noises or something and they both just laugh and tell everyone, they can understand each other. Turns out they're both Trekkies. What topped it all off was when she arrived into work one day with her hair dyed luminous green and its been like that now for months.

Last company i worked for had a woman of the same nationality that started off wearing a high visability jacket on the journey to and from work (on the bus?) but after a while was wearing it like a normal piece of clothing around the office. Used to have this weird habit of randomly jumping up while talking to you?? Asked management if it would be ok if she brought her space hopper into work to replace the chair at her desk (management said it might not be a good idea as she might end up bouncing out the window! we were on the fifth floor).

Anyone else have any similar experience of weird people they work with?

You have people in your office that speak Klingon?

Jesus christ.

syklops · 10-09-2009 10:20AM

Jumpy wrote: »

You have people in your office that speak Klingon?

Jesus christ.

Lucky Bastard.

"taH pagh taHbe'!"

There is this really weird guy in my office. First off he does not like star trek. Secondly, he does not understand any of my geeky t-shirts, such as "There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who dont".

I feel sorry for people like that.

chin_grin · 10-09-2009 10:24AM

Used to work in a call centre and (of course) a French member of the team brought in a snail he found outside. Was keeping it as a pet and had it stashed in an envelope. Someone called HR and a woman came up and had to tell him to get rid of it.

Morto for the fella, wha!

Sharpshooter · 10-09-2009 10:27AM

chin_grin wrote: »

Used to work in a call centre and (of course) a French member of the team brought in a snail he found outside. Was keeping it as a pet and had it stashed in an envelope. Someone called HR and a woman came up and had to tell him to get rid of it.

Morto for the fella, wha!

That was probably his lunch,poor guy.

Vain · 10-09-2009 10:38AM

People still have jobs

ScumLord · 10-09-2009 10:42AM

If I can count my other personalties there's six weirdos in this office, if I can't then it's just me. We all think we're normal but I guess the pending psych evaluation says different.

bob the bob · 10-09-2009 11:14AM

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

He talks all the time about buying a house to live in all by himself. No interest in living with a few other people for a few years. Straight from under Mammy's wings to big empty house. Then looks at prices of houses online, decides to stay with Mammy a bit longer and start some savings. In the next hour he will buy a DVD boxset for £100 and a new game for £50 and start speccing the next laptop he "needs".

His taste in food is like a 2 year old. He doesn't eat veg, fish, nuts and will only have chicken "the odd time". So mostly red meat and chips. A hardy meal I agree, but every day? when our department goes out to lunch, we have to go somewhere that does steak and chips. Amazingly there is a nice chinese restaurant nearby that offers steak and chips.

He usually has burger king for lunch, but once every few months will go on a "diet". This "diet" will involve eating nothing but grapes and bananas for 2 days, then calling in sick because he has piercing headaches and nausea.

I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

He spent 3 months agonising about whether to buy a guitar or not. (I play a little bit) I said go ahead, his favourite music is Nickleback and Green Day so he could be as good as his heros in 6 months with a bit of effort. He bought it, and gave up in 2 days cos "his fingers are too long" for guitar.

He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

He has been talking about studying for IT exams since I met him in 2007. He cannot digest and understand an email that is more than 1 paragraph long (easily distracted, poor concentration skills) yet proclaims he will be MCSE qualified in a year (This involves studying and working through 7 books each 700-1200 pages)

He says "hangovered" instead of hungover.

Captain Darling · 10-09-2009 11:20AM

bob the bob wrote: »

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

He talks all the time about buying a house to live in all by himself. No interest in living with a few other people for a few years. Straight from under Mammy's wings to big empty house. Then looks at prices of houses online, decides to stay with Mammy a bit longer and start some savings. In the next hour he will buy a DVD boxset for £100 and a new game for £50 and start speccing the next laptop he "needs".

His taste in food is like a 2 year old. He doesn't eat veg, fish, nuts and will only have chicken "the odd time". So mostly red meat and chips. A hardy meal I agree, but every day? when our department goes out to lunch, we have to go somewhere that does steak and chips. Amazingly there is a nice chinese restaurant nearby that offers steak and chips.

He usually has burger king for lunch, but once every few months will go on a "diet". This "diet" will involve eating nothing but grapes and bananas for 2 days, then calling in sick because he has piercing headaches and nausea.

I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

He spent 3 months agonising about whether to buy a guitar or not. (I play a little bit) I said go ahead, his favourite music is Nickleback and Green Day so he could be as good as his heros in 6 months with a bit of effort. He bought it, and gave up in 2 days cos "his fingers are too long" for guitar.

He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

He has been talking about studying for IT exams since I met him in 2007. He cannot digest and understand an email that is more than 1 paragraph long (easily distracted, poor concentration skills) yet proclaims he will be MCSE qualified in a year (This involves studying and working through 7 books each 700-1200 pages)

He says "hangovered" instead of hungover.

I lol'ed at that. More of a wanker then weird though.

AssaultedPeanut · 10-09-2009 11:25AM

bob the bob wrote: »

........
I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

..........
He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

Brilliant.

Excellent first post

bluto63 · 10-09-2009 11:27AM

Captain Darling wrote: »

I lol'ed at that. More of a wanker then weird though.

He listens to Nickleback. There must be something wrong with him

AckwelFoley · 10-09-2009 11:33AM

bob the bob wrote: »

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

He talks all the time about buying a house to live in all by himself. No interest in living with a few other people for a few years. Straight from under Mammy's wings to big empty house. Then looks at prices of houses online, decides to stay with Mammy a bit longer and start some savings. In the next hour he will buy a DVD boxset for £100 and a new game for £50 and start speccing the next laptop he "needs".

His taste in food is like a 2 year old. He doesn't eat veg, fish, nuts and will only have chicken "the odd time". So mostly red meat and chips. A hardy meal I agree, but every day? when our department goes out to lunch, we have to go somewhere that does steak and chips. Amazingly there is a nice chinese restaurant nearby that offers steak and chips.

He usually has burger king for lunch, but once every few months will go on a "diet". This "diet" will involve eating nothing but grapes and bananas for 2 days, then calling in sick because he has piercing headaches and nausea.

I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

He spent 3 months agonising about whether to buy a guitar or not. (I play a little bit) I said go ahead, his favourite music is Nickleback and Green Day so he could be as good as his heros in 6 months with a bit of effort. He bought it, and gave up in 2 days cos "his fingers are too long" for guitar.

He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

He has been talking about studying for IT exams since I met him in 2007. He cannot digest and understand an email that is more than 1 paragraph long (easily distracted, poor concentration skills) yet proclaims he will be MCSE qualified in a year (This involves studying and working through 7 books each 700-1200 pages)

He says "hangovered" instead of hungover.

Facekicker would kick him in the face

cathysworld · 10-09-2009 11:34AM

Does he look like this??

star.chaser · 10-09-2009 11:38AM

bob the bob wrote: »

I have a manchild at the desk next to me.

have a guy like that here as well. heard him on the phone one day giving out to his mum cause she mixed some of his white shirts with dark clothes and the colour ran. has this irritating habit of clicking his fingers when he walks as in a click everytime a foot hits the ground.

Turd Ferguson · 10-09-2009 11:40AM

bob the bob wrote: »

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

He talks all the time about buying a house to live in all by himself. No interest in living with a few other people for a few years. Straight from under Mammy's wings to big empty house. Then looks at prices of houses online, decides to stay with Mammy a bit longer and start some savings. In the next hour he will buy a DVD boxset for £100 and a new game for £50 and start speccing the next laptop he "needs".

His taste in food is like a 2 year old. He doesn't eat veg, fish, nuts and will only have chicken "the odd time". So mostly red meat and chips. A hardy meal I agree, but every day? when our department goes out to lunch, we have to go somewhere that does steak and chips. Amazingly there is a nice chinese restaurant nearby that offers steak and chips.

He usually has burger king for lunch, but once every few months will go on a "diet". This "diet" will involve eating nothing but grapes and bananas for 2 days, then calling in sick because he has piercing headaches and nausea.

I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

He spent 3 months agonising about whether to buy a guitar or not. (I play a little bit) I said go ahead, his favourite music is Nickleback and Green Day so he could be as good as his heros in 6 months with a bit of effort. He bought it, and gave up in 2 days cos "his fingers are too long" for guitar.

He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

He has been talking about studying for IT exams since I met him in 2007. He cannot digest and understand an email that is more than 1 paragraph long (easily distracted, poor concentration skills) yet proclaims he will be MCSE qualified in a year (This involves studying and working through 7 books each 700-1200 pages)

He says "hangovered" instead of hungover.

You do realise that you admitting working on the same level as a guy like this doesnt really reflect you in a good light

keano_afc · 10-09-2009 11:40AM

cathysworld wrote: »

Does he look like this??

I was thinking of The Office too, but I can imagine him looking like the IT guy that came to fix Tim's computer. The "Go-Kart King".

bob the bob · 10-09-2009 11:56AM

keano_afc wrote: »

I was thinking of The Office too, but I can imagine him looking like the IT guy that came to fix Tim's computer. The "Go-Kart King".

You have come fairly close to nailing it!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZoES9KQ-Q

shovelsfc · 10-09-2009 12:00PM

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

You do realise that you admitting working on the same level as a guy like this doesnt really reflect you in a good light

slap the head off him

Jumpy · 10-09-2009 12:00PM

snyper wrote: »

Facekicker would kick him in the face

Facekicker would kick anyone in the face.

shovelsfc · 10-09-2009 12:00PM

bob the bob wrote: »

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

He talks all the time about buying a house to live in all by himself. No interest in living with a few other people for a few years. Straight from under Mammy's wings to big empty house. Then looks at prices of houses online, decides to stay with Mammy a bit longer and start some savings. In the next hour he will buy a DVD boxset for £100 and a new game for £50 and start speccing the next laptop he "needs".

His taste in food is like a 2 year old. He doesn't eat veg, fish, nuts and will only have chicken "the odd time". So mostly red meat and chips. A hardy meal I agree, but every day? when our department goes out to lunch, we have to go somewhere that does steak and chips. Amazingly there is a nice chinese restaurant nearby that offers steak and chips.

He usually has burger king for lunch, but once every few months will go on a "diet". This "diet" will involve eating nothing but grapes and bananas for 2 days, then calling in sick because he has piercing headaches and nausea.

I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

He spent 3 months agonising about whether to buy a guitar or not. (I play a little bit) I said go ahead, his favourite music is Nickleback and Green Day so he could be as good as his heros in 6 months with a bit of effort. He bought it, and gave up in 2 days cos "his fingers are too long" for guitar.

He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

He has been talking about studying for IT exams since I met him in 2007. He cannot digest and understand an email that is more than 1 paragraph long (easily distracted, poor concentration skills) yet proclaims he will be MCSE qualified in a year (This involves studying and working through 7 books each 700-1200 pages)

He says "hangovered" instead of hungover.

slap the head off him

TestTransmission · 10-09-2009 12:05PM

bob the bob wrote: »

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

He talks all the time about buying a house to live in all by himself. No interest in living with a few other people for a few years. Straight from under Mammy's wings to big empty house. Then looks at prices of houses online, decides to stay with Mammy a bit longer and start some savings. In the next hour he will buy a DVD boxset for £100 and a new game for £50 and start speccing the next laptop he "needs".

His taste in food is like a 2 year old. He doesn't eat veg, fish, nuts and will only have chicken "the odd time". So mostly red meat and chips. A hardy meal I agree, but every day? when our department goes out to lunch, we have to go somewhere that does steak and chips. Amazingly there is a nice chinese restaurant nearby that offers steak and chips.

He usually has burger king for lunch, but once every few months will go on a "diet". This "diet" will involve eating nothing but grapes and bananas for 2 days, then calling in sick because he has piercing headaches and nausea.

I was telling him recently that my wife was going away for a few days. He says "Dude, you can have a house party!!!"
I explained that it was my house and I could have a house party any night of the year if I wanted.
Also, my wife is not my mother so I don't need her to go away for me to have some friends over and get pissed.

He spent 3 months agonising about whether to buy a guitar or not. (I play a little bit) I said go ahead, his favourite music is Nickleback and Green Day so he could be as good as his heros in 6 months with a bit of effort. He bought it, and gave up in 2 days cos "his fingers are too long" for guitar.

He bigs himself up to unbelievable levels
"On my first driving lesson, I was asked to do a 3 point turn. I did it in 2, and the instructor said I was the best driver he had ever seen"

He has been talking about studying for IT exams since I met him in 2007. He cannot digest and understand an email that is more than 1 paragraph long (easily distracted, poor concentration skills) yet proclaims he will be MCSE qualified in a year (This involves studying and working through 7 books each 700-1200 pages)

He says "hangovered" instead of hungover.

They're everywhere..arent they

limklad · 10-09-2009 12:19PM

There is two guys I have to work with from another group. I nicked name them the odd couple. (only two in that group)

One Guy has a spotless desk and cubicle with only a computer and a phone to be seen, anyone passing thinks that no body sits there. Very clean in appearance (no dust). Very picky in every decision making takes ages to make up his mind and still single.
Ask for anything from him, he takes ages to search for it even up to several days to find it. Extremely slow :eek: that you have a good nip before he finds it.

The other guy, his desk looks like everybody in the company dumps everything into his cubicle. Rough looking, impulse driven in his decision making and has a family, Yet ask for anything, then within 1 sec his hand goes into the rubbish dump heap that is his cubicle and he present what you are looking for to you there and then. Extremely fast it is shocking to see after seeing his mess he sits in.

Professey Chin · 10-09-2009 12:26PM

shovelsfc wrote: »

slap the head off him

I see face-kicker has now been replaced.
I dub thee Head-Slapper

Turd Ferguson · 10-09-2009 12:36PM

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I see face-kicker has now been replaced.
I dub thee Head-Slapper

Lt Col Kojak Slaphead III is better

flanzer · 10-09-2009 12:38PM

limklad wrote: »

The other guy, his desk looks like everybody in the company dumps everything into his cubicle. Rough looking, impulse driven in his decision making and has a family, Yet ask for anything, then within 1 sec his hand goes into the rubbish dump heap that is his cubicle and he present what you are looking for to you there and then. Extremely fast it is shocking to see after seeing his mess he sits in.

I have to admit, I'm a bit like that too! And my house is spotless and I can never find anything when I need to get my hands on it quickly!

Bill-e · 10-09-2009 12:38PM

bob the bob wrote: »

Had to join just to post in this thread.

I have a manchild at the desk next to me. 25yo, living with parents. Calls his mother asking what's for dinner every day. Usually asks her to go into his room, get clothes from floor, wash these clothes.

He always talks about his bedroom, the 50" plasma, PS3, Xbox, 2 PCs as if it's his castle.

Oh crap, this guy kindof sounds like me! :eek:
I live at home with the rents(<-I bet that's also annoying), have a pretty sh!t hot home entertainment system and my ma rings me at work most days. I'm also a finicky bollix when it comes to what I eat. I've loads of computers at home and I'm also doing my MS certification.
Is 25 a ridiculous age to still be living at home?
I'm getting worried now!

10-09-2009 12:38PM

There's this new guy at work who gets all startled whenever I stand up to stretch my legs for a bit while we're talking. He also seems to dislike my top that has the word "greek" embroided on it and I'm also pretty sure that he hates the fact that me an my fellow countryman like speaking Klingon in the office.

cathysworld · 10-09-2009 12:43PM

Bill-e wrote: »

Oh crap, this guy kindof sounds like me! :eek:
I live at home with the rents(<-I bet that's also annoying), have a pretty sh!t hot home entertainment system and my ma rings me at work most days. I'm also a finicky bollix when it comes to what I eat. I've loads of computers at home and I'm also doing my MS certification.
Is 25 a ridiculous age to still be living at home?
I'm getting worried now!

I am also 25 and living at home! Im not worried :cool:

TestTransmission · 10-09-2009 12:50PM

Bill-e wrote: »

Oh crap, this guy kindof sounds like me! :eek:
I live at home with the rents(<-I bet that's also annoying), have a pretty sh!t hot home entertainment system and my ma rings me at work most days. I'm also a finicky bollix when it comes to what I eat. I've loads of computers at home and I'm also doing my MS certification.
Is 25 a ridiculous age to still be living at home?
I'm getting worried now!

Yes,time to cut the apron strings (well,actually,it was about 6 years ago)

Weird people you work with

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