Best thing about working

ChristinS

Has to be the coworkers (or is it the money?). The legal dept is near a few sales and sales support people. One woman, near me: has told me multiple times how much she hates all lawyers; just told either a client or coworker over the phone that she's sorry if she sounds grumpy, but that she's been going through a lot lately; and told another co-worker who was innocently asking if she wanted to go get a soda that she was completely fed up and the only thing keeping her going is a ton of Xanax. Oh. Dear. File that under things we don't aware with our co-workers.

ftnups

and told another co-worker who was innocently asking if she wanted to go get a soda that she was completely fed up and the only thing keeping her going is a ton of Xanax.

 hahahahaha I love when this happens. "so.....you don't want a soda? or....yes?"

wingedbride

My husband's office mate yells at his wife on the phone with him in the room, spends all day talking to him while my husband nods and ignores and then he says he is just so damn busy at work. It's insane these people have jobs while others are laid off.

KristenBtobe

I just listened to our three interns have a scintillating discussion about how challenging grocery shopping can be. "There's so many choices! I couldn't believe how many cereals were there!"  

KayRI

Oh, how I love listening to the secretaries in our office.  There's the one who makes these very bold statements, then immediately backs off:  "I hate  cake.  Well, actually, I just hate frosting."  or "I hate seafood, so I ordered fish and chips.  Fish and chips are good."

punkyshoester

My coworker talks to her boyfriend no less than 6 of the 8 hour day she works...and does so in this bizarre sex-phone-operator-type voice. Drives me bonkers.

HappyTummy613

I just felt a wave of nostalgia for the secretary at my old job, who had a 50-50 chance of bursting into tears on any given day.

noisy_penguin

My favorite co-worker (not the one that touched me all the time - I think she might be officially gone) has signed for packages for me a few times. When I pick them up the next day she goes on for a long time about how awesome she is for signing for the packages. She also brought up that she signed for packages for me in a staff meeting. After the Chargers lost and were out of the playoffs, she had a conspiracy theory about the kicker intentionally throwing the game because he felt the Chargers "didn't want it enough." During a team-building exercise she and I were assigned to the same group and we had to describe a stuffed fish (a walleye). She kept saying, over and over, "He looks mean! Like a shark!" It took everything I had to not shake her and scream "IT'S NOT A MOTHERFUCCKING SHARK, IT'S A WALLEYE. IT'S A GODDAMN LAKE FISH."

BobLoblaw

My coworker's granddaughter just joined the Army. She said she hopes the food is good because her granddaughter is picky.

I laughed in her face, I couldn't help it.

jens_a_ten

My office was in a school, so I was at a farewell BBQ for some teachers last week. I was cutting and serving the cake I made (Which reminds me, I tried making a rainbow cake! I have some crappy cell phone pics), and one woman I had never met engaged me in a conversation about how horrible her ex husband was being and that he's brainwashing their children into loving him more by never yelling at them, and his new girlfriend is a massage therapist and "you know what THAT means".

 

Meanwhile, people were lined up behind her looking at me like "So.. are we gonna get some cake or what?"

Vinny2008

I just seem to have co-workers that share really intimate details about their health issues.  Like the woman who, in response to "Good morning.  How's it going?" told me all about her upcoming hysterectomy.  Since she was being quite frank about it, I felt totally comfortable in asking questions about it all.  It was rather educational.

samfish2bcrab

i may have told this story:

My coworker was going through some tough financial times so she gave her dog to her sister.  (she didn't work here at the time, i have a feeling "financial troubles" is code for "went BSC")

The sister had the dog chipped and owned it for over a year when co-worker started demanding to have her dog back.  sister refuses, rightly so.  This dog is happy, healthy and has two kids to play with.

Now, if anyone mentions anything about dogs she goes into a rant about how we shouldn't talk about dogs when she's around.

YOU GAVE YOUR DOG AWAY, NUTTERBUTTER.  STFU

RFKD82909

I shared earlier but if we're talking about crazy co workers I might as well chime in.

DH and I have been discussing ttc (as you know from the last post and think im crazy for continuing but anyway. DH was at work yesterday and was talking to a friend about our plans. Another co-worker butted in and told him how irresponsible we were being by wanting to bring a child into this world when DH has health problems *Backstory DH was diagnosed with cancer 5 years ago and is now completely cancer free* She kept going on and on about how irresponsible it was to even consider it.

People are freaking crazy. Just because I work with you, doesn't give you any right to jump in my business.