76 People Who Were So Weird At Work That Their Colleagues Still Can’t Forget Them

One guy I worked with had nothing personal on his desk. No photos, trinkets, etc. He never wore a coat and during the bitter cold he would sprint to his car. The reason? He said if he ever quit on the spot or got laid off all he'd have to do is walk out the front door to his car.

She was 35+ had just moved out of her parents house. Down the street. Her mom still packed her lunch every day. Her dad was a cop. She unironically wore rainbow unicorn leggings (like for a child, but she was almost 6’) to work on “casual Fridays.” One time she told me I was “brave” for wearing blue and black together. THE UNICORN LEGGING WOMAN. I think about this stuff every time I get dressed it’s been over ten years.

I once worked with an engineer that in order to talk to him about your project, you needed to pay cookie tax. I kept a pack of Oreos in my desk to ensure my projects were completed on time.

We worked at the same clinic for a while. She was always so quiet. You couldn’t make it a full day without one moment of shock as you’d turn and she’d be inches away from you. Every time, she’d get the tiniest smirk on her face, turn, and continue her rounds. Almost like it was a never ending game she never lost. She didn’t have a defined role, either, just an ever constant presence each day. And yet we all knew her role there was more secure than any of ours.

I really miss that clinic cat.

This coworker rode his bike to work. Would change his clothes under his desk. On your birthday he would sing a birthday song while doing a German dance. If he really like you, he would change into his lederhosen.

Years ago on my way into the office in the city - what I thought was a - homeless man ran past me, jumped in the air, slapped a road sign and ran off ahead of me. I lost him in the crowd.

When I got up to my office floor there was the homeless man. He was one of the attorneys in my office and it was his first day. The homeless clothes he wore were his “train riding clothes.”

I secretly called him “homeless lawyer.”

I had a colleague who only ate baked potatoes… which he kept in his trench coat pocket already cooked. Used them as “hand warmers” in the winter, and then ate them for lunch like an apple?!?

Tony “Elvis”, came to work dressed as Elvis Presley every day. Behaved totally normally, dressed as Elvis. People would see him and look around trying to figure out if they were on Candid Camera.

Not mine, but a friend’s colleague…

A woman at the office got word that her grandmother passed away, and while everyone else was consoling her, a young male colleague piped in and asked “do you know what they are going to do with her mattress?”

I worked in an office where celebratory cakes were at least every 2 weeks. One day I was asked by the lady cutting the cake if I wanted to take some home because there was a ton leftover. I said "Sure, it was a delicious cake!" A different co-worker called me over to her desk and simply said "watch". I saw that heifer cut the cake, lick the knife with her tongue and proceed to keep cutting. THAT was the reason there was so much laying there! I've never eaten office potluck again!

Weird older white guy with terrible combover started work. He kept approaching different Asian women in the office asking them “What kind of Asian are you?” In the creepiest way possible. After several complaints of harassment he was fired. I don’t even think he lasted a month.

I had a colleague who would bring a gallon of whole milk to work each day and drink it out of the container. He’d bring the jug to meetings with him and drink the entire thing. Total criminal vibes.

I had a colleague that would bring a whole rotisserie chicken to work, and eat it at his desk for lunch throughout the week. Just with his hands. Just sitting at his desk, pulling bits of chicken off and just eat it. Every week, for a few months until he moved on.

I worked with a guy in the 80s who went shopping in his lunch hour. He came back with some bedding and a female collet asked what he had bought. "Black satin sheets" he replied "I only sleep on black satin sheets". "Goodness!" My colleague said "Are they tricky to wash? What programme do you use on the washing machine,,?"
He looked at her blankly. " Oh I don't wash them. I just buy a new set every 6 months"......

I had a colleague that was really great about sending gifts for anniversaries, and such. It would always arrived in a large manila envelope marked "lab results enclosed" and the name on the return address was "Reverend Seymore Pooty." He's missed tremendously around the office.

I had to repeatedly tell a male that clipping ones toenails at his desk is not good. I did eventually take it to HR and he stopped.

I had a manager who enjoyed bringing his pan flute to work, talking about his cape, and showing off his magic rock collection. I kind of enjoyed him actually (minus the pan flute playing)

I had another manager who dyed himself blue for burning man, but couldn’t get the blue off, so he was just blue for a week at work. He also ran for mayor of our college town under the platform that he was “the Party King of Davis.” Oh, and he also gave himself scurvy one time, just to see if he could.

On my first day at a new job a few years ago, an older colleague showed me a super fuzzy cupcake from his own first day of work in 1989 that he had stored in a little plastic box ever since then.

Joined a new engineering group shared an office with an attractive lady, didn't take long to figure out she was having an affair with coworker. Came back from business trip early, walked in on the two, her knickers on the floor. I set my bag down & said don't mind me, carry on and walked out. Later both approached me about what I saw, I told him he need to see someone about the mole on his behind. I moved into another office soon afterwards.

Wife had a colleague who would not throw anything away. When he saw people cutting up boxes for recycling, he would get incensed and yell that they were "destroying city property."
After he retired, they found 100+ coffee cans that he had snuck back out of the trash and hidden in an unused room.