[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?

Comments

[ellex42]

I think I probably am the weird person.

I promise I'm perfectly nice! I'm just...not like other people and not very good at hiding it.

But hey, back in 2008, I didn't think there was a connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden just because there's only one letter difference between Obama and Osama!

And I'm not willing to eat food items with a "best by" date of more than two years ago (we were cleaning out the refrigerator at work, and I flat out refused to let that coworker have the expired items we found at the back of the fridge)!

And I don't "forget" to put on underwear when I get dressed in the morning and then tell all my coworkers about it! Yes, that really happened. And she wore jeans every day. Argh.

[theidolhands]

Yeah, I'm thinking she kind of forgets on purpose...that's pretty desperate for attention, since I doubt it was said to get an "Ew gross, you're going to get mucus discharge all over your pant crotch." Ha, ha, ha.

[ellex42]

It happened often enough, and she was so...giggly...about it, that I'm quite certain it was on purpose. The reaction from other women was a collective silent "I didn't need to know that". From the men, there was a lot of surreptitious glancing at her crotch.

[theidolhands]

Which was exactly what she wanted, of course, and not the safest thing to announce (or professional at all).

[xchanceofrainx]

First anecdote isn't someone I worked with, but creepy nonetheless. There was a guy that worked with my co-workers, always mumbling to himself, always pacing and he'd just disappear... they had engine hoists in the back and they'd see him standing there, cranking them, staring into space. He just stopped showing up to work, and then suddenly there was a report of his wife missing. About 2 weeks after that, there was video survellance of him carrying a rolled up rug to the car that was on the heavier side... never found her and never charged him, because he ended up killing himself shortly thereafter. *shudders

[theidolhands]

Yeah, it's good you got rid of that "vomit" guy, even through the 'net I'm getting a major creeper vibe & my instincts are pretty good. Something is very off with that person and in a self-pitying, paranoid, vengeful & misogynist way that speaks of a lot of serious criminals (when they finally go bat shit).

And actually...I read your second paragraph before the first. Yeah, the first guy definitely killed her. It should still be proven wether he committed suicide or not; her family deserves to know the truth. That's fucked up.

I've worked with a handful of "bad weird" too and what's alarming to me is how often they are seen as normal or have protectors.

silly internet, posting my comment twice

[firebomber]

I worked for a business covertly backed by the Church of $cientology and the boss man was a "Clear" in the church. That was... pretty weird and I only lasted three days because of it. They didn't eat sugar of any kind, didn't allow newspapers into the building, and wanted you to look up everything in a dictionary.

At the dining hall we had a kid who a paranoid schizophrenic off his meds. He got fired for sexual harassment on top of the bosses finding his MySpace, which detailed some very violent ideations, and was often later mocked around campus as "that guy who stops and talks to lamp posts." (I don't really consider this "weird" since he was mentally ill.)

[beartalon]

The weirdest person I ever worked with was a woman in one of my jobs' Finance departments. She had been let go, but then came back for a brief contract. She was odd before, seeming to spout random things that weren't closely tied to conversations. When she returned for the contract, she brought a friend. It was a duck sock puppet. When you were talking to her, her hand would make the duck "watch" whomever was talking, and otherwise "react" as she did. If that wasn't odd enough, she wouldn't take anything handed to her, unless the giver put it in the duck's mouth, and that was conveyed by her voicing the duck. She'd put her puppet-covered hand in front of her face and speak the duck's words in a higher-pitched voice than her own. Sometimes she'd snap the duck's beak at the hand of the person handing her papers.

She didn't stay for the duration of the contract.

You have to be making this up.

[theidolhands]

But if not, we've found a date for Mr. Hat!

RE: You have to be making this up.

[beartalon]

Nope. She was there that day, and fired by the end of the day. I have no idea how she got through the re-entry interview.

[theidolhands]

This is about bowling, right? :P