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tell me about your oddest colleague?

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StealthPolarBear · 19/09/2011 21:59

Past or present.
We used to have one who would pick his ears and then make the coffee, it used to have bits floating in the top.

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bibbitybobbityhat · 19/09/2011 22:09

Oh this is going to be a scorcher of a thread!

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StealthPolarBear · 19/09/2011 22:08

Tm what was her reason for whispering? Was it in an "I'm an invalid" way?

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StealthPolarBear · 19/09/2011 22:08

He didn't just pick at his ear delicately though, he'd be in up to the knuckle, having a rummage Envy

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BupcakesandCunting · 19/09/2011 22:07

Oh I have loads...

  1. The basket case who used to pretend that he was loading and firing a shotgun in the staff room, with a glazed, vacant look in his eyes. His wife left him eventually, for being a loose cannon I think, and to repay her, he photocopied loads of flyers of her face and wrote "Have u seen this slag?" on all of them then stuck them up around Wolverhampton town centre.
  1. The deputy manager who used to systematically bully female members of staff, except the ones that he fancied who were safe from his sneery comments but were subjected to a whole other world of weirdness. For such a hardfaced cunt, you'd think that he'd take it on the chin when he found out that we ladies had been drawing comical doodles of him on the back of the ladies loo door. You wouldn't think he'd sob over it, would you?

There are more. I will be back when I have remembered them!

TastyMuffins · 19/09/2011 22:05

I worked in an office with someone who would come back to work from a day off sick and whisper as if she had lost her voice (even if she'd been off for an upset stomach). I used to whisper back. She used to forget to whisper when she was on the phone to people and speaking in her own language as if I wouldn't notice the loud voice because I couldn't understand the words!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 19/09/2011 22:05

I had one that used to cry on about the poor animals being "murdered" in abbatoirs. She wasnt a vegetarian.
She even cried off sick one day because she'd witnessed some animals in a transport truck on the way to slaughter. My boss took pity on her and sent her home, 5 minutes after she left she strolled past the shop scoffing a greggs sausage roll!

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 19/09/2011 22:04

Wonder if we worked at the same place?

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StealthPolarBear · 19/09/2011 22:03
Shock just Shock
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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 19/09/2011 22:02

I used to work at a big company with a staff canteen. They used to put big jugs off water on the tables. One day a colleague whipped out his false teeth, swooshed them in the jug, put them back in his mouth and carried on with his dinner. I never drank the water again.

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