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Food Sniffers and other annoying co-workers
Topic Started: Apr 6 2008, 07:31 PM (899 Views)
Melliebay
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DQ, I have no problem with it if I'm out to dinner with friends. I do have issues with food sharing, because I have a bad seafood allergy, so I tend to just order for myself, but I will usually offer a bite of whatever I'm eating.

My friend calls it "only child syndrome" and thinks I am being selfish. Um, no. I brought my own food, I don't expect someone else to magically feed me and neither should you. If you are hungry, there is free soup in the cupboard. :lol: :lol:
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My hubby had a cube mate years ago who would remove his shoes and CLIP his toenails at his desk. :spew: :o :jaw:

This was a weekly occurrence

Another guy would follow him every time he'd get up from his desk, even to the bathroom. NO social skills. They took to referring to him as "the satellite" because he was constantly in orbit around my hubby. Not saying anything, just comforted by his presence I suppose.

There are some seriously weird people out there with NO social skills!

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I would have to leave the area if someone clipped their toenails. I am really anti-feet!
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Thankfully, the company that I work for has removed me from the section of the office known as cubicle hell. I now have a door that I can shut and I do. The most annoying person here would be the woman who thinks she is all that and then some and loves to raise sh*t during meetings, but if you come up with a solution to the problem, she refuses to acknowledge it and keeps right on harping away like some fish wife....

or the head of one department who has the most annoying betty boop voice. and she always has to talk about herself and her kids and never listens to what anyone else has to say.

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I will trade you your food sniffer for my fish bone spitter-outer!

Most the people I work with are from different countries so we have some very interesting cultural differences that abound (mostly in the hygene department...though after almost 4 years, the insane BO and spitting in the hallways don't phase me too much anymore).

I refuse to eat lunch in our dining room at work, though, because I work with several people whose table manners make me physically ill. The last time I attempted eating lunch with the group, I would up sitting across from a guy who was eating chunks of fish. Said chunks of fish had bones in them. Whenever he found a bone, instead of discretely putting the bone in a napkin or doing something not completely disgusting, he'd open his mouth and spit the bone (and some fish particles) onto the table. :spew: Not even onto a napkin on the table, just directly on the table. Then, if any good fish had come out in the mouthful, he'd pick it out with his fingers and re-eat it. :spew: I really try to be culturally sensitive and all that and I'm sure we do things here that totally wig him out too (like, say chew with our mouths closed!) but the fish regurgitating just pushed me over the edge. Now I happily eat at my desk where I don't have to watch anyone else's See Food lunch...

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This thread actually makes me thankful that I'm teaching. Kids do annoying things, but I just try to attribute it to the fact that their just kids. I don't have to deal with weirdo adults so much.
The teacher in the next room is a compulsive liar, but that's another story.
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Oh Indy, that is so gross!
We have some "Chatty Cathys" here, too. There is an instructor in the Geology department that wanders the hall looking for people to annoy. I was warned about him when I first got here and was polite, but not friendly, so he has left me alone. He has bothered other female faculty to the point of harassment. I don't understand why he is still here - he's not tenure-track faculty and just covers a few intro classes. I certainly wouldn't trust him to teach my 19 year old daughter.... He's so creepy! :spew:
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YIKES, EGADS and ZOUNDS, people! :jaw: :psycho:

This thread is increasingly making me feel MUCH better that I don't work anymore! NASTY memories are returning after reading your stories...but gotta say that the fish bone spitter is a new one! ICK. :unsure:

Yeh, some folks are just very lonely, some folks never learned manners, some don't have a clue what personal boundaries are, and many are just loons.

At least I'm home and KNOW the loons here! :innocent: (Especially the one in the mirror?)...

But really, yes, it can be terribly difficult to deal with some of these idiots daily at a job...

Here's one for you guys...

One job I had during the years before computers required much paperwork which required typing...we were using IBM Correcting Selectrics (for those of you of my generation you'll know exactly what that is! for those of the computer generation it's a typewriter from IBM) --- anyway, this WITCH I shared an office with was a sly cow and she and I began to have some real problems. She had decided I had to go because she was unhappy that the boss (another woman) was finding my work TOO well done and so was sure I'd get promoted (oddly, I didn't want a promotion there as I was going to school and angling for a career change and what's weird is she knew this...sighhhhhh...)---

Anyhoo, one day she decided to pull a fast one on me, but I caught it and she was quite upset about this. Color me amazed the next morning when my boss called me into her office and said we needed to chat...you know the deal...please sit down, office door gets closed...that "uh oh" feeling in the pit of your stomach when the boss sits down at her desk with a very serious look on her face---

Well, color me AMAZED when she pulls out the print cartridge out of my typewriter from her desk and proceeds to tell me that at 4 a.m. she gets a call from my "office mate" telling her that I should be fired because I had written a note to my mom in working hours. I asked my boss how the heck my office mate knew this? Wellllll, my boss says, she apparently removed the print tape, took it home and spent from 8 pm to 4 pm reading it...YES...she sat at home alllll those hours reading that tape from one end to the other LETTER BY LETTER and wrote out everything that had been typed by me on my typewriter! Found a short five sentence note to my mom I'd typed out and called my boss at 4am to request that I be FIRED for this! :o

HOW screwy is this?

Anyhoo, my boss fired HER. It was a strange company, and I got my education classes done and got a new job elsewhere in a new career path about 90 days later.

BUT, I never forgot that...and from that day on I always was VERY careful about watching my back.

Pffffffffffffffftttttttttt...crazy co-workers...BAH. :pissed: :argh: :soapbox: :sigh:
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Wow! :o :o

After reading this thread I can't tell you how happy I am to work with horses all day! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Of course, woe to me if I try and eat a carrot or apple at the barn! :teehee: Then I have my "coworkers" all over me!
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Yeh, CDE Driver! Bring out those apples and carrots and watch the action! ;)

And, I'm with you...ponies, puppers and parrots...I'll take them any day over the loons of coworkers!
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The art teacher here is very annoying! She is Russian and has no concept of when people are busy or trying to get work done. She just talks and talks and talks!
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Apr 7 2008, 08:25 AM
Yeh, CDE Driver! Bring out those apples and carrots and watch the action! ;)

And, I'm with you...ponies, puppers and parrots...I'll take them any day over the loons of coworkers!

I agree that working with animals would be the preferred choice, however, the unfortunate thing is that most animals come with some weird human attached at the end of a leash or lead shank.

Some of the people that I had to deal with as a barn manager....man....the stories I could tell....the woman who would wait until 10Pm (barn closed at 9) to come and see her horse becuase she wanted to curl up and read it a bed time story, and she did, every night. She would open the horses stall door, plunk herself down and start reading aloud. She would never turn on a single light, just have one of those itty bitty reading lamps attached to the book...I walked into a dark barn one night and heard the story "good night moon" being read out loud. I have to say, it kinda freaked me out. She also had crystals hanging from her horses stall and halter too to keep her centred....
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Apr 7 2008, 08:25 AM
Yeh, CDE Driver! Bring out those apples and carrots and watch the action! ;)

And, I'm with you...ponies, puppers and parrots...I'll take them any day over the loons of coworkers!

No kidding! And frankly, if my dog spits up his food and then re-eats it, I'm actualy pleased because it's less for me to clean up - plus, he doesn't have thumbs and a PhD, so he doesn't have to have table manners!


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Some of the people that I had to deal with as a barn manager....man....the stories I could tell....the woman who would wait until 10Pm (barn closed at 9) to come and see her horse becuase she wanted to curl up and read it a bed time story, and she did, every night. She would open the horses stall door, plunk herself down and start reading aloud. She would never turn on a single light, just have one of those itty bitty reading lamps attached to the book...I walked into a dark barn one night and heard the story "good night moon" being read out loud. I have to say, it kinda freaked me out. She also had crystals hanging from her horses stall and halter too to keep her centred....


OMG! Now that's a nutjob of a woman!
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When I was in programming school, we were working on a special project. My group went to one of the largest "shops" in town to interview the IT mangers. We videotaped the interview, and were supposed to edit it. The guy in the group who taped it refused to give us the tape, because he claimed that another guy in the group made porn films and would use the tape to splice our heads onto porn actors' bodies!?! :psycho: The teacher let the rest of use do an alternate project.

A few years later, this same guy came to interview at the place I was working. I talked to the people hiring and told them about the video incident. He didn't get the job. A year or two later, he applied for another job there. I felt guilty about the whole thing - he had four kids to support, maybe he had changed, etc., so I didn't speak up. He got the job.

Things were fine for a while, then he just stopped coming to work. One day he comes in and starts yelling and throwing things because they wouldn't give him the paycheck that he hadn't been there to earn. Turns out he was bipolar and had stopped taking his meds. He had ditched the wife and kids, and was living in a hotel room with a girl 15 years younger than he was. The next day guys were there installing card readers on all the doors, so that nobody could get past the lobby without a key card. It was actually really sad for him and his family, but I felt guilty because I should have spoken up again.
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Indy
Apr 7 2008, 10:05 AM
I will trade you your food sniffer for my fish bone spitter-outer!

Most the people I work with are from different countries so we have some very interesting cultural differences that abound (mostly in the hygene department...though after almost 4 years, the insane BO and spitting in the hallways don't phase me too much anymore).

I refuse to eat lunch in our dining room at work, though, because I work with several people whose table manners make me physically ill. The last time I attempted eating lunch with the group, I would up sitting across from a guy who was eating chunks of fish. Said chunks of fish had bones in them. Whenever he found a bone, instead of discretely putting the bone in a napkin or doing something not completely disgusting, he'd open his mouth and spit the bone (and some fish particles) onto the table. :spew: Not even onto a napkin on the table, just directly on the table. Then, if any good fish had come out in the mouthful, he'd pick it out with his fingers and re-eat it. :spew: I really try to be culturally sensitive and all that and I'm sure we do things here that totally wig him out too (like, say chew with our mouths closed!) but the fish regurgitating just pushed me over the edge. Now I happily eat at my desk where I don't have to watch anyone else's See Food lunch...

:jaw: :spew:

Indy that is awful. Thank Tom I work at home. The worst thing to happen here might be a dog having to throw up, but they usually give me enough warning that I can fling them out the back door...
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