Oddballs at your work

[Thaksins Love Child]

Theres a guy at my work who brings in a flask with 3 eggs in it. Boils a kettle the night before, fills the flask, pops in 3 eggs and by the time he gets to work in the morning they are cooked through

There's a part of me that wants to try this.

 

[casualdeyna]

Lad in our place has same routine for food every day. First off about 11 he puts his apple and banana on a napkin on desk, always in exactly the same place, almost like the hammer and sickle from old USSR flag, exactly the same every day.

then at lunch gets sarnie out and rips open a bag of crisps, lays the crisps out, then puts and stacks them in to size order. He eats the crust off his sarnie whilst eating the smaller crisps, is left with the bigger crisps at the end and sarnie with no crusts, exactly the same day in day out.

 

[blue banks]

It's not my work but my brother has talked about one of his colleagues who seems quite odd.

He collects the free metro newspapers on public transport and apparently has piles in his office, and when asked to tidy them away covered them with a tea towel and left them.

He searches bins and skips looking for hidden treasures, and my brother said he tried to kit the canteen out with 'new' cutlery he'd found round the corner. He also brought a scarf along to work and gifted it to a female colleague, and when she asked why it was dirty and wet it was revealed he found it in a puddle.

And maybe the strangest and most worrying thing - he keeps news articles about terrorist attacks and natural disasters in his drawer at work.

Sounds a bit like Samuel L in Unbreakable. Good movie btw.

 

[peoffrey]

It's a slight tangent but we once had a temp who seemed to think he was here to run the department. He tried to network throughout the organisation almost immediately and was caught e-mailing our magazine sub editors to beg for a job. He'd been employed for data entry. He asked to stay on after his 13 weeks but he'd upset about 50 employees with the strength of his personality.

 

[KingCarlito]

There was a bloke at my old job who was in his mid 30s, very dry and matter of fact. I found him funny as he had some good tales from back in the day.

Every single dinner time he'd go to the canteen and order chips, beans and a ham sandwich and go sit on his own. He'd scrape all the butter off the bread with his finger for 5 minutes. Then proceed to make a chip butty. I asked him why he only eats chips and beans as he said he's a good cook at home, he said everything else was inedible.

My money was on him being the type of guy to eat kiddy meals at home like turkey twizzlers and smiley faces.

 

[In Rodg we trust....]

I blame the interviewers!!

 

[Cellarite]

Some of these are so weird, I'm almost suspicious about them being wind ups.

A lad who used to work for me from Redcar told a group of blokes in our department (me included) about the animal porn that he enjoyed during a discussion about porn. When everyone told him how weird that was, he thought we were winding HIM up by denying that we all watched it.

 

[york away to this!]

Some of these are so weird, I'm almost suspicious about them being wind ups.

A lad who used to work for me from Redcar told a group of blokes in our department (me included) about the animal porn that he enjoyed during a discussion about porn. When everyone told him how weird that was, he thought we were winding HIM up by denying that we all watched it.

was he wearing a red and white shirt?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Bloke I worked with collects bus / train / ferry / plane tickets.
When he knew you were going away he'd pay you a little visit and ask if you could go on a local transport from somewhere to somewhere (wherever you were going) as he would like the ticket....
He'd be waiting for your return and his 'gift'.
I came back from New York once with a fistfull of subway tickets. He was thankful and said he would use most as swaps with his ticket collector friends....

 

[Cellarite]

was he wearing a red and white shirt?

Yep, although it was the red and white of Middlesbrough rather than Sunderland.