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

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.

I had a guy who would put his motorcycle gear on his desk making his working space ridiculously small. He would then recline his chair and sit cross-legged at his desk while eating grapes and nuts for more or less the whole day. Occasionally he would move his mouse and do some design work - then sit back to think of it was ok. He would have breaks every hour.

Coworker had dandruff, walked barefoot to the copier, and cut her toenails at her desk. She also took naps. Her desk was so gross. When they let her go, no one wanted to touch her desk. Our boss sprayed Lysol while wearing a mask and rubber gloves. We found mouse droppings in her top drawer and behind her computer!

A colleague many years ago never had his coat or bag with him at his desk on a Friday.

Every Friday about 2pm he'd disappear with a document saying he "needed to run this past" someone or other.

We were on the 4th floor. One Friday he was discreetly followed.

It turns out his mate two floors down was where he kept his coat and bag etc. He'd go downstairs dump the document in the recycling bin, collect his coat and bag and go home....

Office guy would keep his door open but turn his desk to the wall, rest his phone on his shoulder, and nap. This happened for years. When he finally left, they found hundreds of ketchup packets and semi-bare professional photos of himself dressed up as a gladiator.

We had a contractor who claimed to be Walt disneys grandson. His name was Shane Disney (or that’s what he told everyone) Every day he’d wear his Disney jacket, pinned up pictures of him in his cubicle standing next to Disney security, ect. He told everyone that every weekend he’d fly to Florida where he’d get on the family Disney yacht then fly back on Monday. Come to find out he was an escape convict on the fbi most wanted list. FBI showed up one day and took him away in zip ties.

Had a coworker who would take naps under the conference room table over lunch. One day, an admin came in the room over lunch to prepare a 1 pm meeting and ran out screaming “he’s gone, he’s GONE!!!”

Anyway, Larry the nap guy went on to other shenanigans, including taking deep breaths and physically shivering when women entered the elevator. Beyond creepy.

We had a white dude who would play a didgeridoo in the parking lot on his lunch break. He kept it in his trunk.

My old boss had a desk drawer full of loose Pringle’s chips. He’d politely offer us some (we’d decline, of course), then he’d make duck lips with them while we talked to him. He’d do this to everyone, including the CEO.

I had a coworker tell me that immigration was bad because "what if I go to someone's home and they make me take off my shoes??"
Two things:
1. In Canada, this is pretty much standard for all houses except some rare instances/occasions in my experience

2. The guy was a MF-ing immigrant.

Lots of other examples, but that one really sticks out.

The weird colleague is my husband. I’m not gonna out him by telling you the stuff he does at work. Ok! One thing. He used to fall asleep at work under his desk in a sleeping bag he kept there, and he put a sign on himself that said “I’m fine, don’t wake me up, I’m sleeping”.

I had a colleague who used to steal other people’s lunches and eat them in the shared kitchen like it was a perfectly normal thing to do.
One day, I walked into the kitchen and saw him enjoying MY lunch - opened my box and was casually eating my food.

I approached him and asked, “Did you bring this to the office? If not, why the hell are you eating it?!”
And he looked at me completely unbothered and said, “It’s in the shared fridge, so I consider everything in there shared.”

What a weirdo.

I worked with an engineer who refused to learn how to use microsoft word. He’d print out a report, and to mark it up, he’d cut and tape the sentences and paragraphs back together with hand written comments, and then expect a younger engineer to retype it all for him.

Had a coworker who was let go after loading his in the cubicles. He blamed other people for him getting fired. And routinely showed up to job sites pretending he still worked for the company.

One lady brought a grocery store bag of raw radishes (unwashed, in that red mesh bag thing) and starting eating them at our 8am meeting.

I shared an office wit a man who drove 150 miles on Monday morning to work. He lined out of his van during the he week never showering. I showed him the shower that is available in our building. I offered to let him come to my house to shower. No luck. By Friday, it was unbearable. I told his manager and HR that if this wasn't resolved, I would be working from home. This was before there was a way to work from home.

As a government contractor, I worked in lovely old Victorian building in DC. I worked in the library. We got a new project manager, a white guy 50-60s and a former lawyer. In the library we had one toilet for the staff both male and female. His not so solids splattered the seat and back of the toilet. Asked him to clean it up, even posted a sign. He said it was not his JOB to clean after himself in a shared toilet.
It’s been 20years and Frank H should be gone by now.

I worked with a guy who had several oranges in various stages of decomposition on the shelf by his desk. When I asked him about it, he said he was conducting an experiment, in the event he had to go on a long sea voyage, and didn’t want to get scurvy.

When I was a teen I worked at McDonalds. The oddest thing I saw was a coworker who refused to wear slip resistant shoes and would wear slides with the black booties over them. She would also take her shoes off in the break room and pick her feet the smell was terrible. This same woman would go out to the retention pond behind the store and wade about knee deep and just hang out for a bit. Mind you we are in Florida and all bodies of water have gators in them.

I briefly worked with a German guy that ate only bananas and avocados. Like literally only those 2 things. He looked surprisingly healthy, actually.

In hindsight maybe he had extreme ARFID.