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Strange/eccentric work colleagues

The_Dark_Lord · 2020-09-17 16:05:35

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…

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#152 22-09-2020 12:44pm
tylercheribini

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Zebrag wrote: »

I currently work with a woman who genuinely believes the company will shut down if it wasn't for herself.

If you're that lucky sod that got landed on the same table with her for lunch, be sure to walk away knowing her family background and why her daughter in law is now her ex daughter in law, Why her husband and ex husband don't talk to each other and why her grand-children should be in the smarter classes in school (?)

She is on the same pay roll as me and we have the same contract so nothing more or nothing less is expected from us but she's one of those people that she will somehow make her role important. Honestly it amazes me how she makes a piece of paper seem so interesting when the words haven't moved all day and it's the same pieace of paper she has been holding all...day....long.

She isn't a supervisor, a manager or anything above or below me and has tried to direct me on how to do my job which is fine if I asked but I'm in the same company nearly 10 years and she only started 3 years ago so my days of learning and wanting to expand my career is long gone. I'm more than happy to do the bare minium, get paid and off I go. Think The Office but in the form of Retail.

It's not that she's eccentric but I think she doesn't have much of a life outside of work so she gets all the hours she can and pretty much runs around the shop. It's sad but at the same time she really doesn't help herself whatsoever

Yea I worked with a similar bag who was on the same pay grade as most, very quick to exercise her deluded sense of self appointed authority but just as quick to shirk any responsibility when it suited.

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