He’s a bit of an attention seeker but it’s got to the point where it’s embarrassing.
He’s not on my team but sits in an open plan office near me.
The last few days he’s produced an enormous prescription bag from his laptop bag and proceeded to lay out boxes and boxes of tablets across the desk. There’s emollient creams for eczema, some SSRI’s but the majority is over the counter stuff like paracetamol, Benadryl and a couple of multi-vits. He makes a huge show of taking all the tablets out and laying them out on the desk, then leaves them there all day.
No one has asked him about this but every now and again he says loudly ‘oh it’s tablet time! Totally forgot’ and then proceeds to rifle through the bag and pull out more boxes.
It’s incredibly annoying and distracting my team who are now making a bit of a joke out of it to be honest. I’ve quietly had a word and told them to ignore it and not to openly acknowledge that they’ve even seen it, but they’re young and it’s tough for them to keep straight faces now it’s become a running joke.
I’ve resigned myself to just ignore it and everyone else is too, but wtf?? What’s the motivation? I’d love him to stop but don’t want to bring attention to it and feed the behaviour iyswim.