Strange/eccentric work colleagues

I am the strange and eccentric colleague

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.

In a long working life I can remember several.

One guy was a fantasist who at one stage convinced everyone that he was a superb marksman who was going to the Olympics to represent Ireland in the shooting category. So convincing was he that the plant arranged with their US counterparts to look after him when he was over there.

Sure enough he took two weeks off around the time of the Olympics. His cover was blown when a manger saw him wandering around Douglas shopping centre when he should have been in Atlanta.

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.

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.

.....so what you mean is, he was more than likely autistic....

No, I haven’t worked with anyone more weird than myself, I rock!

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

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.

Nothing odd about that, petrol heads be common, and the cars mentioned are bloody nice

If there's no strange work colleagues in your job, then you're the strange work colleague.

Kylta wrote: »

If you haven't got something wrong with you, well you won't get a job were I work, when a homicidal psychopath is the basic, well after that anything kind of goes. I've worked with so many of these people over the years, some are alcoholics, some are coke heads, some have mammy issue's, some i'm sure are incurable. Now I know I can be a bit eccentric at times, but i'm the saneist person in the place. Oh the bosses are worst than the staff.
I won't say who I work for but if I do
People will give a quite nod with agreement at the above statement.

You work from home ?

corner of hells wrote: »

You work from home ?

Thanks for the laugh

Worked with a strange lad up to the end of last year.

But for the work uniform, I wouldn't be surprised if he wore the same clothes in every day, as he never deviated from the one pair of jeans and a particular type of boot that was well-worn- rain, hail or shine. Always wore a baseball cap that has seen better days and seemed to take pride in a pair of sunglasses when the weather was good, the type you pick up for cheap in a pharmacy (he treated them like Ra Bans).

He had zero social skills. Fr.Stone levels of interaction like. The most important aspect of the job was to give tours to visitors, but in all my time I was rostered in with him, I never seen him do it once. Could barely string a sentence together if asked a basic question over the phone, and often panicked when having to give out change.

He ate his lunch very loudly as well, and seemed to emphasise each chew. Sometimes I would be getting something near his desk and spot that he would be reading up the wikipedia articles of some sci-fi films and was often quite stalker-ish to women on FB.

Now he is a nice guy, and really loved working here. Hasn't found a job since, and probably has some form of autism. But he would be completely unemployable in a busier work environment.

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.

Jesus Christ I pissed meself reading this story...holy fcuk. Not sure who’s actually the bigger nutcases here- yer man that shat himself or the loons “investigating” it?!