Strange Colleagues

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Strange Colleagues... Everyone has them I'm sure, so I thought it might be fun if we talk about them behind their backs on the interweb. :cool:

At my current place of work their are several people that come to mind, but one in particular who started about a month ago.

Just to set the scene.. I work at a creative design agency. This particular person is a data analyst in the development team, aged about 55.

On his first day, he turned up with a black eye and cuts to his face.. this has happened several times since then - but he refuses to tell anyone what happened.

He listens to extremely loud dance music, loud enough for people on the complete other side of the office to hear. Then whilst he is listening, will often burst into song for a good minute or so before he realizes where he is and why everyone is laughing!

The strangest thing yet however, is the fact that he stood up from his desk the other day, walked over to a male colleagues desk (who wasn't sat there at the time).. and began to take his shirt off. I gave him a strange look and he bolted into the toilets. :confused:

We're convinced he could be an alcholic, as he often brings beers to work and started handing them out at a womans maternity leaving doo in the office!! :eek:
 
I once worked with an old boy who used to wear sun glasses when using a computer (he was an old school engineer, did most of his work on paper). I asked him why and he said it was to protect his eyes from the radiation from the monitor :confused: Good guy otherwise though.
 
You're hallucinating him.

But lol you reminded me of the guy that I worked with who claimed he was bouncing his dial up signal off "ghost satellites".
 
This one is more annoying than strange, but still strange.

An old woman who, thank god, is due to retire next year. She tells everyone what she is doing ALL THE TIME. She's a shipping controller so is constantly going on about forms and tariffs and trade agreements, duty, cargo, volume, vessels...I really don't care but nobody including me has had the gall to ask her to shut up.

I've learnt to blank it out now but honestly, why do some people have to give a running commentary on their jobs? Nobody cares about your shipping activities and it's not convincing anyone that you're really busy as you have about ten fag breaks a day and spend the rest chatting!
 
One of our counter staff is basically a compulsive liar, we have given up on catching him out on stuff he says as he doesn't care, and instead just nod and smile when he tells us about his latest bs. He's one of those guys that always has a story about whatever topic of conversation you are currently having. "Oh that reminds me of the time I...."
 
ah what work-place would be complete without the compulsive liar with the millionaire uncle.
 
We have a Mactard at work, he only comes in once a month but he's always complaining about Windows PCs and how he's looking forward to going home to his iPad and Mac.

I think he has a gloryhole in his Macbook too.

Knubje and Ciphon will know about our old "workmate" J Geezy who had a action man story to everything in his life :p
 
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Khaaan! said:
Knubje and Ciphon will know about our old "workmate" J Geezy who had a action man story to everything in his life :p
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I was thinking about the exact same guy. Similar to Archy above, the guy used to talk so much BS he must have been a compulsive liar.

One of the more legendary members of staff there once started the "BS Olympics" in which whenever the aforementioned guy started talking absolute crap about something you had to go one better on what he just said.

E.G- A group discussion at lunch, someone says "I saw the Foo Fighters at a Gig in Wembley this weekend".

This guy then chimes in with some absolute trip such as "Ah, my brother and his mates supported them when they were unknown. I got to meet Dave Grohl and the band after show and we still keep in contact to this day, etc".

To which someone else would then have to trump his story with something even more unrealistic. It was epic fun.
 
Khaaan! said:
Knubje and Ciphon will know about our old "workmate" J Geezy who had a action man story to everything in his life :p
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Heavy Breathy Geezy!

Remember when he raced Valentino Rossi... and WON!

Also the time he dislocated both of this shoulders in a rugby match, but managed to continue playing!

That guy was a king among men :p
 
Knubje said:
I was thinking about the exact same guy. Similar to Archy above, the guy used to talk so much BS he must have been a compulsive liar.

One of the more legendary members of staff there once started the "BS Olympics" in which whenever the aforementioned guy started talking absolute crap about something you had to go one better on what he just said.

E.G- A group discussion at lunch, someone says "I saw the Foo Fighters at a Gig in Wembley this weekend".

This guy then chimes in with some absolute trip such as "Ah, my brother and his mates supported them when they were unknown. I got to meet Dave Grohl and the band after show and we still keep in contact to this day, etc".

To which someone else would then have to trump his story with something even more unrealistic. It was epic fun.
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Awesome! Email going out shortly to propose this very thing for lunchtime today!
 
Knubje said:
This guy then chimes in with some absolute trip such as "Ah, my brother and his mates supported them when they were unknown. I got to meet Dave Grohl and the band after show and we still keep in contact to this day, etc".
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I would have had him on that. The Foo Fighters were never unknown. It was the very anticipated first album of Nirvana's drummer.
 
I remember when I was working a weekend shift with him and he was sitting on a beanbag al lazy watching a movie on his laptop.



And then one of the senior managers walked in ^_^



Bahahaha!
 
OT but I had a beer with the lead guitarist from the Foo Fighters the other day, Chris, nice bloke :p
 
We work 12 hour shifts in a small team so people can easily become annoying. But one guy who I have only worked with a couple of times does literally no work. He watches cartoons on youtube and laughs his head off constantly but when you walk past his screen he alt tabs.

It generally results in us asking why the email is so funny. :p

He also got a complaint made against him for staring at the girl in our teams breasts constantly. :D

But they are huge and she has them hanging out. ;)
 
I had a strange colleague once. I liked him, and still do to this day (though I have only seen him once or twice in the last couple of years).

Some interesting stories...

He lived in the work car park, in the back of a Vauxhall Omega Estate. You'd park up in the morning, look over, and he'd be boiling his morning coffee.

In our reception area we had some comfortable black leather chairs for guests to wait in. We were all sitting there working, when we realised he was missing. I get up and go around the corner, and he is asleep in the reception chairs. The senior management decide to let him sleep! :D

Once walked in to the toilets to find him shaving his back!

On many occasions he would stay at work late. When I say late, I mean very late - I'd walk out the door at 10 PM (we were a 9-5 operation) and he'd still be there. I was once talking to the IT manager a year or so after he left, and he had checked out what he was doing... let's just say it wasn't work safe. He did have a lot of stains around his chair...

There are more, but those are some of the best. We all had a lot of time for the guy as he was very genuine and just having a hard time. He was separated from his wife and gave her everything he earned so his children could live comfortably.
 
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