Who else has a workplace filled with people that are just a bit “off”?
I’ve worked at my job for almost a year and I’m finding it weird that 99% of the people I pass in the hallway don’t/can’t/won’t look me in the face/nod/say hi/hello/howdy/hola or anything.
It’s as if people here; when they leave their cube, feel like a life-long prisoner that has just been released.
I try to look everyone in the eyes/face and say hey/hi/hello/howdy or all of the above (which might weird some out) and I get little to no response from the majority.
I once got the response: “eeghhh” and the person turned and walked away.
Work can be a weird place. There are around 400 people where I am, most will at least nod or say howdy.
I’m stuck in a cubicle rat maze where I don’t interract with anyone near me. We got moved around as a “temporary” measure as part of a big re-org, the plans went down the tube and I’m still hanging with software techies that may as well be speaking Swahili.
I work with this one guy; every time I pass him in the hallway I say hello and he mumbles something incomprehensible and looks at his shoes as if they’re trying to escape from his feet.
A guy just got fired. He’s Hungarian, and used to print out pictures of crashes and train wrecks and drew happy faces in black sharpie on them. He crept me out.
I work with this other guy who dressed as Peter Pan at his wedding. He seems proud of this because he showed me the picture and didn’t think it was awkward until I told him, “That’s pretty fucking weird.” The look on his face looked like I put his puppy in a burlap sack and proceeded to beat it like pinata. He, also, walks around on his tippy-toes and is all extra happy to every one to the point where you KNOW it’s phony.
Man, where I work we have an unspoken rule that we do not acknowledge anyone else so that we do not have to admit that we actually are working here and this is not just a bad dream. But then there is this one dude who every time he walks by someone he has the audacity to look them in the eye and say hi/hello/howdy/hola or some other “h” starting greeting.
Some of the post-menopausal women that work with me take the cake. I mean, you can’t even talk with some 1 on 1 without running the risk a trip to HR. Always meet in a public area with a witness if I do talk to them.
One (looks like she over did it on the acid trips back in the day) got moved in with us after being in corporate for years. She had a corner cube, but had higher walls put in so no one can see in, and she has this carboard sliding door that she uses to block off the opening. Her car is loaded with all sorts of crap, beach chairs, cat carriers. She has her cube festooned with fake plastic flowers, not just 1 or 2, but maybe a dozen or more.
A lot of the senior secretaries are very, very quirky in general. They never say hi, have little to no work to do all day. I could find shit for them to do.
That weird chick who talks to herself in elevators?
That would be me.
But there is one woman at our office who is a bipolar mess with a superiority complex. She is the one who decorates her desk with all sorts of crap and has a bunch of cats at home. She is actually more gross than weird (I like weird people). She has a skin problem where she just scratches and scratches herself to the point where her arms or hands will bleed. Every winter she gets a nasty cough too. Sounds sort of like a cat hacking up a hairball. She also has this ear piercing cackling laugh.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Man, where I work we have an unspoken rule that we do not acknowledge anyone else so that we do not have to admit that we actually are working here and this is not just a bad dream. But then there is this one dude who every time he walks by someone he has the audacity to look them in the eye and say hi/hello/howdy/hola or some other “h” starting greeting.
Some of the people I work with are pretty weird, but overall it’s not bad. There’s these 2 asian guys who always make really loud disgusting clearing throat sounds, apparently it’s because pollution in China is so bad they get shit in their lungs but still, it’s nasty.
One of them works really close to me and, I’ve timed it, walks past my cube roughly once every 2.5 minutes, seriously where the fuck can this guy be going? Then this other coop student has that “look” about him where you know he’s just retarded, but then I’m like well if he was retarded he couldn’t work here so he’s probably just some weird CS kid or something.
every job is pretty much the same, i mean the work is different but the people are about the same.
i work in a resturaunt now and the customers are typically 10x wierder than anyone who works there, since you u need to have some kind of people skills in order to be a successful server, or huge tits.
itd be too much time to type out a description of the people i worked with at my previous job, just weird, gross people.
We have this Asian guy that has been here for eons. From what I’ve heard, he’s a black belt gas passer and eats weird crap he brings from home, and he’s a little guy.
There was this other Asian guy that ultimately got the axe. He was young and would be the last to “leave” at night. But he never left, he LIVED in his cube and slept under his desk at night. We had watchmen who would come around and one night he comes across this guy curled up.
It was at the same time that guys would come in and find all sorts of porn sites in their caches and all sorts of pix downloaded on their computers. Guess who was surfing porn before he went to his “bunk”?
EVERY workplace is different. If you don’t like the place or the people, consider changing. There are some great companies out there with great people. And some are just plain “off”.
But yeah there are a tonne of “normal” but WEIRD people out there.
I don’t really see the point in trying to say hello to 50+ people every day. Maybe they will be nicer to you over time but I don’t really want to know anyone I work with any more than I already do. They aren’t people I would be hanging out with outside of work.
I’m in government so the number of middle age overweight women is mind boggling.
