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| Food Sniffers and other annoying co-workers | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 6 2008, 07:31 PM (897 Views) | |
| Trialbyfire | Apr 7 2008, 11:14 AM Post #31 |
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You're BANNED!
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Thankfully I read this after lunch! ![]() Yuck!!! I have food issues, in general. Don't want to see your food, hear your food see you touch your food, etc. I worked with a woman who had some compelling need to tell you all of her most personal medical issues. I recall when we hired a new guy we all went out to lunch on his first day and she sat next to him. Someone mentioned a meeting we had attended that was relevant and she said "Oh, I wasn't there that day. That's the day I had my surgery." Then looked at this guy she's known for 2 minutes and said "I had a lumpectomy. A lump in my breast. Cut out." The poor guy. I thought he'd just melt into the floor. She would come in and tell me how she had her period and was cramping and just absolute horror stories. I kept telling her I think she needed a new gyn and acutally gave her a reference, but she never would go. Instead she'd come in and say things like "I've gone through 36 super-long-overnight-plus maxi pads in the last 24 hours. Do you think that's normal?" Boy, I kind of like not working, now that you mention it! |
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| Sannois | Apr 7 2008, 11:21 AM Post #32 |
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You're BANNED!
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I'm an only child and I have NEVER done that, I think everyone is right, just plain old poor manners! <_< |
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| Sannois | Apr 7 2008, 11:24 AM Post #33 |
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You're BANNED!
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OH MY me too! Makes me totally ill.. My husband clips his over the toilet and then doesn't flush them..
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| jetjocky | Apr 7 2008, 06:18 PM Post #34 |
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Shunnnnn the unbeliever. Shunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
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Wow, I never realized what (mostly) wonderful co-workers I've had through the years. My only annoying coworker story is the woman who was fulltime, but it would be a miracle if we saw her 15 hours a week. We always wondered what she had on the boss to get away with that for 10+ years. |
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| heineken | Apr 7 2008, 06:22 PM Post #35 |
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Off visiting Candy Cave, be right back.
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ooohhh...I have another one...the teacher who could never keep track of her cycle and got her period "randomly" every month and went through 2 boxes of my tampons that year. "Ohmigosh, I just totally forgot I was starting my period today"...hello, you've been a woman more than, um, 20 years and you can't track it? I could track it by the end of the year! |
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| TarynJ | Apr 8 2008, 06:44 AM Post #36 |
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Guiding your way to Candy Mountain, since 1873.
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Ugh - Indy, I feel your pain. At an old job we had a kitchen that opens into the office, and it drove us nuts when people heat smelly food, ESPECIALLY fish. It got so bad that a buddy put a sign up asking that people not do this. HR promptly hauled him down since there was a complaint that he was a racist. The kicker? He's of the same ethnic background as most of the fish-heaters...
His line? "[fill in ethnicity] CAN have a sense of smell too!". I think it's a good thing he'd been there forever and was a bit of a cornerstone of the company... they were on thin ice and always looking for an excuse to lay people off. Have the same problem at my new job. I don't dare say anything... |
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| Trixie | Apr 8 2008, 07:12 AM Post #37 |
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Thomas H. Cruise!
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I had a colleague who would show up at 10 or so a.m. (the office opened at 8:30) and then grunt until lunchtime. Just grunt. Like she was in pain. She claimed to be narcoleptic, and instead of speaking, just mumbled. So, all you ever heard from her side of the office was grunting and mumbling. She would microwave pasta with red sauce and dump salt on it. Tablespoons and tablespoons of salt. One day, the skin on her nose was peeling, so she sat at her desk removing it with tweezers and a compact mirror. "I know this is disgusting," sez she, "but I just don't care." She began having an affair with one of the VPs, around 40 years her senior... |
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| Giddy-up | Apr 9 2008, 09:43 AM Post #38 |
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Shunnnnn the unbeliever. Shunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
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wow I thought my co-worker was annoying, but he's nothing compared to these people. And I am sorry to say, but this thread had me laughing the whole time I read it.
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| DairyQueen2049 | Apr 9 2008, 11:30 AM Post #39 |
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DRAGON BREATH. DRAGGIN' BUTT
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Luckily the way wack employee here has left the building permanently. Whew. Drug addict issues. Thus money issues. Sad. So very sad. |
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| hey101 | Apr 9 2008, 02:29 PM Post #40 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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I didn't personally witness this one, but my good friend did... he was in a meeting with our VERY weird boss, who in the midst of speaking, pulled open his desk drawer, proceeded to BRUSH HIS TEETH at his desk, spit into the trash can right next to his desk, and THEN... moved on to FLOSSING. While still carrying on the meeting. My friend was . Of course that story was around the office in under two minutes. Our group of friends STILL laugh about that, 5 or 6 years later, even though we have scattered far and wide.This same guy has also clipped his fingernails in meetings, and once in the men's room, was standing at the urinals next to a different male friend of mine, and turned full-face to him and starting chatting with him and clapping him on the back. While certain things were still hanging out, as it were. And my friend was still in the middle of taking care of his own business. Now I've never been at the urinal station, but from what every other (normal) male has told me, it's an eyes-front, no-talking situation until everyone is finished and things are put away. This guy was beyond weird. But ENDLESSLY entertaining. He once told me that I should get myself a pair of hair-lined pants so I could feel every move they made when I walked. That's another one we all still laugh over (in fact I'm snickering away to myself right now as I type this!!). |
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