I work with about 1500 people and I would say about a good 1300 of them are a lil odd. LOL
My fav is this one housekeeping lady (oh btw - i work at a casino). Anywho - Marilyn is very odd but I have known her for years. She talks to herself - entire conversations. But that is not the strange part - it is what she says randomly. The best was when she was just walking thru one of the employee break rooms and spouts off...I wont put it here even tho it is the funniest thing ever. Well, after working with her for 5 yrs I actually lived in the same apts as her - and saw her several times taking out her trash - all beer cans. So she was maybe having a few split personalities and drunk? I dunno.
What I love about where I work is that it seems all these people just will say and do whatever comes to mind. I tend to stick to my department and just sit back and watch the other strange people around me LOL.
Oh there was a security guard who had this old cutlass and he had hand painted his security number on the top of his car ( i dunno what the heck that was about) and on both doors of his car. Hahaha.
He also claimed to have been shot 14 times and still have 5 bullets lodged in his liver.
A door greeter we had was arrested at work because she was featured on the nightly news on our states most wanted list....
One of the blackjack dealers was also a teacher and arrested for having some strange relationship with a 14 yr old student of his
One of the cashiers used to brag about "doing time" in prison - for killing her husband
Apparently the background checks take longer than one would think..........

Whats your story?

I worked with a lady that seperated from her dh. He was begging her to come back to him and she ignored the calls, so he sent 144 red roses to our office ~ a dental office!!! It looked like a funeral home!!! Our boss bought one dozen from her to take home and then she took the rest of the roses to the local hospital to hand out to patients! She never did go back to him and a few weeks later, when she went home for lunch, he had cleaned out the entire house

Kathie

I did hear of someone who trolled the halls near the executive restrooms to be able to say they were familiar with ceo's. I guess wizzing in the next stall constitutes bragging rights. Actually, I am not even sure this person worked there, just did it to be able to say they were familiar with ceo's maybe ?

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I worked with a woman once who had been removed from her previous job in a straight jacket. She also bragged to me that she had run back and forth, and back and forth, over her daughters musical instrument...then took it to a school board meeting to show them "what the band director made me do". There are many more stories, but I won't bore you with all of them. BTW, she was a family service worker for Head Start. So much for references.

I work with a wonderful lady. She is the most innocent, good hearted human being that I know. While the rest of us are swearing like truck drivers, she comes up with expressions like, Mother, pin a rose.
One day she was unsnapping her paper jacket, and accidently unsnapped her scrub top at the same time. The supervisor was standing six feet away at the time. She nearly died of embarrassment. The rest of us nearly died laughing.

This same lady went to her class reunion a few weeks ago. She hadn't seen her old teachers for many years. Her husband was with her, and for some reason he decided to put on her name tag. She saw it on his jacket, and ripped it off, fearing that someone would see her name, and not having seen her in a while, think that she had a sex change operation. Only this lady would think something like that.

I could go on and on.

I work with a wonderful lady who is so warm and nice. However, something has been off the last two months or so. We finally figures it out last Saturday although others have suspected for a bit. She's been drinking especially at lunchtime. She could hardly stand up at work, and we had to keep her in the back room.

She's not even worried about getting fired. When she was drunk she told me that the supervisors would have to prove that she was drunk. Everyone knows, and she does seem to be getting away with it for now. It's very sad to see her self destruct. Her husband is an ass who doesn't work (his parents are extremely rich and give him money) and they have a 17 month baby. She's just so unhappy with her marriage and her husband's lack of ambition.

She told me all of this when I drove her home Saturday. I didn't want her driving herself.

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Ok. Another couple of stories:

I used to work for the phone company with tons of coworkers. One of them robbed a bank with friends one Saturday. She was driving the get away car. She was sent away for a few years. She was only about 22 or so at the time. Very sad and very unexpected to see her name and picture plastered all over the Sunday paper. This was maybe 25 years ago when people really weren't robbing banks.


My sister was the supervisor for awhile for a deaf young man who ended up being one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims. My sister's best friend was a supervisor for the prison guards at the prison in Wisconsin where Jeffrey Dahmer ended up. She used to talk to Jeffrey a couple times a week. How would you like to have a Jeffrey Dahmer connection???? She said he was actually very quiet and very polite.


I could think of other stories, but my cats are telling me their food bowl is empty! How shocking!! I wonder where all of that cat food went!!! And why do my cats need to go on a diet????

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I worked at a restaurant. We had a coworker, a woman about 67 I'd guess. She would go around saying N word this, N word that..the Blacks laughed it off and sometimes would egg her on to say it. She also complanied how she won all sorts of lotterys from foreign countries and the postal service was stealing her money. My dh was a Navy man at the time and she would say the military is stealing her money. Once I saw her walking home from work. Her car was in the shop . She lived a good 15 miles from home. it was a bit chilly so I pulled up besider her and told her to get in the car. She hemmed and hawwed but finally got in. Tried to pay me and I refused..saying I was doing her a favor and did not expect money. After I dropped her off, I found a $5 bill stuck in my seat cushion.

Another time a young woman in her 20's worked for us. She and the supervisor did not get a long..one morning, bright and early, they got into a fussing match. The girl threatened to walk out. The supevisor told her go right ahead but if you do not bring back your uniform you will not be paid...The coworker STRIPPED down to her bra and panties and WALKED OUT of the store at day break, in the middle of the city ( Va Bch) ..she walked all the way home like that ( about 3 miles away !)

The man who made the salads was a elderly man...if you looked at him you would think grandfather. His job was not only to prep salads and other side items, but to also stock essentials for us up front like salad dressing, milks, etc. One morning I asked him very politely as I always did to please have the milks up front, it was getting to be the morning rush and we needed that. Salads did not have to be prepared until lunch time. He flew off the handle ! Sputtering ! Pointing his finger, screaming at me ! I was absolutely in shock ! There was no reason for this behavior.

Another elderly man who's wife was dying would regularly steal bills from a donation jar we had. He would reach his skinny hand inside and steal $20's, etc. Again, looked like a kindly old gentleman...

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That was incredibly stupid of her. If I were her boss and she charged me for 12 roses and then gave away the other 132 roses, I wouldn't be giving her a raise any time soon! I might even phase her out because I wouldn't want someone that dumb working for me.

I worked at a group home for mentally challenged adults. I worked with a guy named Gus. Gus was great..on top of it in every way..great with the clients, great with meds and could smooth things over between staff members like you would not beleive. We had a client who could get very violent but Gus could calm her so quickly. Sometimes he would hum, sometimes he would just chat with them. It was amazing. I worked with hin for 3 years and NEVER heard his say a negative word about anyone and NEVER saw the stressful job ever get to him...amazing

He should have been house managerr...but our HM was a complete idiot.

Gus would take his breaks and go into the backyard to practice a martial arts that he invented. I wish I could remember the name. Some staff members made fun of him but he was ALWAYS calm and able to handle anything, so there must have been SOMETHING to it.

ON THE OTHER HAND

We had this woman who worked overnights. This was a group home where the over night person stayed awake. The clients kept complaining that the phone rang alot in the middle of the night. One night she called in sick and our House Manager took her shift. She found out the phone calls were this woman's "JOHNS" setting up meeting times with her.

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proving some of the best things in life come in a jar.

You're kidding right? First, I assumed the boss offered to pay for them. Second she gave them to people in the hospital!!! You would punish her for doing something charitable? Glad you're not my boss!

I once worked in a nursing agency with a girl who was paranoid about being sick. Every "disease of the month" movie sent her into a panic that she had that illness.

When I worked for the local government we had this one girl in our office who was a doozy...she showed up in our fairly casual office one day in a tight short blue dress with a black leather jacket and fishnet stockings (the hooker looking ones). She was also dumb as dirt but through she was so smart... Some of her funniest mistakes were:

In an e-mail to the entire office (sent on two different occasions) - "Your presents is required at the commissioners meeting on..."

Told someone to turn by the "detention" pond

Kept discussing the "pacifics" of an issue

My father accused me of engaging in a battle of the wits with an unarmed person when I would go head-to-head with this girl. She was very mean-spirited and sometimes I just had to settle things with her.

You have to be from the Midwest to remember Jeffrey Dahmer. I lived in Milwaukee at the time.

No you don't. I'm from New England and remember it well.

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You have to be from the Midwest to remember Jeffrey Dahmer. I lived in Milwaukee at the time.

No you don't. I'm from New England and remember it well.

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I agree, CA here and it was a horrible story. A short story of him was just on Stone Phillips' last piece. Still brought me chills.

I'm in Texas and remember Jeffrey Dahmer!

peapie

I had an email from an administrative assistant asking me to send her something again and at the bottom she wrote "Sorry for the incontinence" Obviously, her spell check wasn't working properly, but we all had a good laugh in the office over that one!

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from nc and remember Jeffery 's story very very well. dont know how you could actually forget that!
anyways. I worked at a state run mental hospital on High Control. This was the most violent ward there. No staff came on this ward unless they were employees on this ward. One of the patients had injured a staff member badly and the staff member was in the hospital and they hired a temp to take his place. the temp was a huge guy who looked like a bouncer from some bar.He took the self defense classes and all the self protection classes we were required to take. It was his first day on the ward. he walked off the elevator, came through all the locked doors we had to open to get on ward and we were in a huge brawl! One of the pts had broken a picnic table leg off on the back deck and was swinging at anyone who tried to come near him. he had hit a few staff with it already. anyways, after we all ganged up at tackled the guy to get the leg away from him, it took all we could to calm him enough to walk him to the seclusion room. The new guy , who like I said was HUGE,did not lift a finger to assist us ( I am 4'10 and was fighting just as hard as the rest of them, ) He turned, went back through all the locked doors and went to the office and told the supervisor that he didnt think he wanted this job that he was afraid he would get hurt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This guy weighted at least 300 lbs and had arms on him the side of my legs and he was afraid he would get hurt!!! Glad he left. staff like that in that type of job WILL get SOMEONE else hurt.

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