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

I was a federal contractor at the SEC and my colleague was straight up weird. Although she was a 50-60 something year old, she’d suddenly give me the silent treatment for days on end for seemingly no reason. She’d just look at me when I asked her a question and she’d walk away. She also had anger issues. The assignment ended when Dump was in office the first time because they cut the funding. No surprise there.

2/2 he called in on the radio says he was on the job site. One of our team bosses dropped by. No one was there. When the team boss came in he was pretty rattled. We both knew this guys alibi just got blown apart. I was already afraid of him. You know his dome people won’t make regular eye contact but when they do they stare a hole into you? That was him. I always felt creepy looking at that knife and him.

A guy I worked with came to work and went straight for his breakfast in the canteen and even on night shift and then disappeared for upto 6 hours, no one including me could find him.

I had to talk to an apprentice who had been late every day for weeks and who’s manager had been covering it up.
I said you’re ‘this’ close to being let go due to attitude. At the end of the meeting I asked if he had any questions. He asked how close he was to being let go. I said ‘this’ close with my thumb and forefinger. At which point he stood up. I braced myself for an attack. He tore off his t shirt and shouted right well in that case I’m off. And stormed out of the building into the mall.

He would quote rap songs but in a normal, dad like voice "I've got my mind on my money and my money on my mind." Or "hotel, motel, holiday inn! ".

He ate wild roots and mushrooms that he foraged for around our work. When he got mad he would tell people how he was going to end them (specifically) and what he was planning to do with your earthly remains. He didn’t get fired as quickly as you’d have wanted him to.

Had a freelancer in for a week, and after our morning meeting with the production manager, slammed his fist on the desk and growled “I hate women telling me what to do!”. Also an avid twitcher apparently, but not sure that’s connected.

When I was pregnant and about to go on mat leave, I had to train my replacement. I was eating a biscuit and he *picked up and ate* my half-finished biscuit.

Obviously didn't say anything (British) but I think he realised he'd done something wrong because a little while later he went to the kitchen and brought me back a replacement biscuit. Just resting on the bare skin of his hand

Also maybe the guy who accidentally ordered gay adult entertainment for me to decorate my side of our shared office.

Worked with a guy - nickname Psycho Steve - who used to drink 13 (always 13) cans of full-fat coke every day. Then he would go home and drink a 2L bottle. He was a very strange chap.

Let me start by saying, this girl was going through it at the time and has come out better than I could’ve imagined. That being said, I once worked with a 21 yr old who would sit on the floor behind the desk, in full view of everyone who passed by, with her legs spread open and the space heater between her legs because she was having cramps. I also worked with a kid who thought acetaminophen was pronounced “assuhtuhminOphOphen”, I can’t think of it any other way now. He also got us banned.

A colleague told me to get my hair cut during work time. He said “it grows during work, so get it cut during work”. He also stood up when talking, apparently he couldn’t when seated. Not once.

There was a gal who routinely took full calls in the bathroom. I think she would mute when she flushed. But it was a massive 8 stall bathroom so sometimes flushes happened. I always wondered how her teammates and clients felt cuz I KNOW THEY HEARD EVERYTHING.

The guy who used to wave his paycheck in my face every two weeks and say “This is why I am more important you, I make more money.”

I never showed him my paycheck. Mainly because I’d work the overtime that he was “too important” for, so I was actually taking home an average of 20% more.

And then there was the alcoholic I was always covering for, but because our boss was an alcoholic too (but when I worked for him had stopped drinking) they got along really well.

A guy I worked with once said he needed to go home early because he had eaten too much at lunch and his pants were too tight and uncomfortable. a woman once wore a skirt with a slit in the back, but wore it backwards. When someone said it was backwards she said it was “European style”.

I work in a high school cafeteria. I arrive at 6am and see a guy with disheveled clothes, long unkempt hair, he’s got shoes over his shoulders, is was digging through the trash cans. I went up to office “I believe there’s a homeless man in the cafeteria”. The office staff locked down the doors and kept kids in the lobby. Police officers came, the guy is gone. They review footage with me. Turns out, the guy was the night custodian Oops sorry guy. I’d never met him before.

I had a coworker who for lunch every day had a gallon of whole milk and olive oil. He would also disappear at random for who knows how long.