[STICKIED] Community Question Post #41- ONE EYED, ONE HORNED, FLYING...

[theidolhands]

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theidolhands asks: Who is the weirdest person you've ever worked with?

What made them appear so quirky?

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[springandsummer]

I used to work in an environmental laboratory, where we tested water samples at IBM (although my coworkers and I were contractors, not IBMers).

There was this one guy who had worked there forever (and had worked with my coworker at past jobs, going back about 15 years). Every Friday, without fail, he would make sure to say TGIF to everyone. He also wore a red shirt every Thursday, which had been in support for an IBM unionization movement that had been attempted years before I started (and keep in mind that we weren't IBMers, we just did all the work). He was the guy that went around the facility to do the sampling and powerwalked everywhere. He apparently shaved in the men's room.

Once, he even claimed that one of those automated tractor trailer-height garage doors hit him in the head, when really he walked into it.

But the actual cherry on the sundae is that he drove his officemate so nuts with all of his bullshit that the officemate put legit acid in weird coworker's potted plants and killed them (and got fired, whoops).

Is it an offense to kill plants?

[theidolhands]

Or...moreso misusing (company) acid?

And btw, for a split second I thought you were going to tell me that he put LSD in the guy's food or something just to drive him so beserk that he hoped it would get the other guy fired!

Oh dear, GREAT stuff, thank you for sharing that!

How did you get the skinny on the plant murders?

Re: Is it an offense to kill plants?

[springandsummer]

Oh my gosh, that would have been really funny :x

The side of the building was one big wall of windows, so plants thrived really well there. When these plants not only started to wither but to smell really bad, someone looked into it and realized they could recognize the odor. They questioned everyone and I'm not sure if the coworker owned up to it or they caught him on surveillance camera (they manufactured computer chips in another portion of the facility, so I'm sure they were recording.

It sucked because the coworker and I had started at the same time, so I had felt somewhat of a bond with him :/

[theidolhands]

It does suck, he was driven MAD. He should've pleaded insanity.

When I think of all the stuff my work places didn't catch or looked the other way on, this one zeroes in on plant murder and throws the book at him. Sheesh.

Re: Is it an offense to kill plants?

[firebomber]

This almost reads like something in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents: anthology. You'd have to add in a dead body somewhere, though, but by Jove, you'd have it!!

[theflyers]

Your icon, bless his heart *___*

Oh my goodness, don't take it out on the plants :(

[springandsummer]

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