Give Us Your Best Co-Worker Nasty Habits Stories

[Yavin4]

I worked along side a guy who would blow his nose every 7 minutes. How did I know? I timed him one day.

[Samurai_Writer]

1. Loud coffee-slurping coworker

The woman in the cube next to me drinks 10 cups of coffee through the day. Yes, I counted. And SLURPS extremely loudly. God it's annoying. She also eats at her desk and chews with her mouth open.

[ThomCat]

12. I would KILL

I can't stand hearing people eat and drink.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. One day last week ...

I saw a man put his food back in the community fridge in the break room and then he rubbed his cheeks in between his you know where . And then I saw 2 ladies waiting for working just digging up their noses for gold . Just NASTY I tell you !

[tinfoilinfor2005]

3. Years ago I worked at a nursing home and one of the nurses aides

used to go in the rooms where the old men with Alzheimer's were housed and lift up her top and show them her boobs. She said it gave her a charge to give them a thrill. Maybe it did, but I found it a bit disrespectful. Most of these guys were family men from a whole different generation, and I'm not certain they would have approved of a peep show had they been able to give an opinion. But then again, maybe they were all for it.

[Love Bug]

5. I'm sure their wives wouldn't appreciate it, either.

[Crazy Dave]

20. That sounds sadistic and cruel

Especially doing that to an unwilling or a person incapable of stopping it. Nothing wrong if there is consent but I see no difference in that than a man exposing himself to women who do not want to see him. God I hope there wasn't any of that going on with the male staff.

[jane_pippin]

4. How about scheduling a meeting in your office 5 minutes before it happens

so you have to sit there and listen to yuppies yammering on about things that make you want to puke instead of listening to the cd you brought from home to help you have a nice relaxing Friday?

Because that's what my co-worker just did.

edit: Mad-guy smileys needed :argh: :mad: :argh:

[1gobluedem]

6. Clips his fingernails during meetings

Someday I'm going to put my foot up on the table and start polishing my toenails. Do you think he'll get the message?

Other than that, though, he's a really great guy.

I have another (part-time) co-worker who, when asked rhetorically "how are you?" will tell you. In very graphic detail.

[progmom]

8. you used to have a coworker who would tell you in very graphic detail

....but it would all be in her head. :tinfoilhat:

[1gobluedem]

9. Are you speaking of the Nutt?

She also told me about her buzzing.

[progmom]

16. oh dear

i forgot about the buzzing. :rofl:

[1gobluedem]

21. I will never forget

It's seared into my brain. Along with the description of, um, the discharge coming from her nose that she left for me to describe to the doctor if he called back during her lunch hour.

I must say, I do NOT miss those days.....:puke:

[Shell Beau]

7. Lucky for me, I don't work in an office regularly, but when I

am at the office (like today), another woman in here takes off her nail polish and and files her nails. x(

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. Here's a good one

we have a secretary who is a real old hippy. She is 60 and has hair down to her waist and wears celtic robes to work. Kind of interesting lady, but hygiene is not her forte'. We have a punch bowl for celebrations and one day she had a blister on her foot so she soaked her foot in the punch bowl. We don't use it much anymore.

[Common Sense Party]

26. [shudder] n/t

[LSK]

11. one is super hyper and loud

Shes ALWAYS shouting over cubicles to other people. Really annoying when shes super perky on a Monday morning.

[Richardo]

13. One person in our office has to sit down and occasionally scrape dog crap

...off his shoes.

Oh wait, that's me. :blush:

[Bunny]

15. Uh..., sure.

Richardo, I hate to break this to you, but everyone knows it's not *dog* crap you're scraping. :eyes:








:hide:



:hi:

[Richardo]

22. Well it *smells* like dog crap.

Did you know that dead oak leaves and DC are practially the same color? And that if you take your 5 dogs out in the yard first thing in the morning before you go to work you can easily step in some without knowing it?

Well it is. And you can. And do.

:hi:

Huhuhuhuhuh. He said 'do'.

[RandomKoolzip]

14. I had a coworker who used to snort cocaine while working...

A fellow line cook. He was a really funny guy, but he'd always be going into the walk-in cooler while working to take a snort. One night, right before he got fired, he was so zooted that he left the line altogether (during a rush) and started doing prep for the next day in another part of the kitchen, the boombox blasting. He ended up staying there all night.

[bleedingheart]

17. the salad shooter...

the woman who would talk and eat and shoot food all over you...

[MountainLaurel]

23. I think I know her

This individual always ate with her mouth open. Usually, it was because she was telling you about her digestive troubles and lactose intolerance while she was eating. Thanks, but I didn't need to know that having the alfredo sauce would mean that you'd have to spend the afternoon in the toilet.

[Crazy Dave]

18. I'd say the ones that yell at their spouses and argue with them on....

...the phone where everyone can hear. One dip-shit who lived with his mom was yelling at her one day and was threatening to hide her TV from her when he got home.

Maybe it was none of my business but I made it my business right then and there.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. I'm gonna win this one

Sports editor — apparently had Tourette's; the strangest things would fly out of his mouth. The cops reporter kept a list, which got up to 20-something. The ones I remember were "pants," "panties," "bull pants" and everybody's favorite, the classic "Shit on a whore."

He also had sinus problems and would snort like bull several times during the course of an evening. I mean loud. Same with sneezing. And he'd sometimes do a Felix Unger-type thing after a series of snorts/sneezes, like "HAAAAAAA!" And he yawned about the same way.

And once in awhile he'd go mining for nuggets — sometimes INside his pants.

To the guy's credit, he was a pretty good writer and a fine bar room baritone. Also did a good impersonation of Keith Jackson. Yes, indeedydoody.

[Yavin4]

28. He Must've Been The Greatest Reporter Ever

in order to put up with all that crap.

[nini]

24. better than a big snort every 7 minutes

:puke:

[RumpusCat]

25. I sneeze a lot

I can't help it. :blush: Am I a nasty co-worker? I always go blow my nose and wash my hands--I just apparently have a sensitive sneeze trigger.

[Yavin4]

27. I have another one: Perfume Lady

I worked with this woman who wore the stinkiest perfume on earth. She must have showered herself in the stuff. You could still smell her 10 minutes after she left a room.

[ThomCat]

29. Ewww!

I imagine everyone in your office had problems with nausea and headaches.

[Yavin4]

31. She didn't work directly in our office, but she frequently visited

You could always tell when she came by, when she was on the elevator, when she was in the hall, etc. She should never committ a murder because it would be easy to track her down, just follow the scent.

[Texasgal]

30. I had one that would

pick her nose in the bathroom and then rub her boogers all over the toilet chamber.... it was sick!

[ucmike]

32. i'm working with "air hanky" guy

about 20 times a day he holds a finger to his nose and blows snot on the ground. where we're working on the ground, on the roof, sometimes in the warehouse, at least once in a customer's house (that was a surprise). he's a real dick, so i don't know if he does it for shock value, cause he couldn't care less about his coworkers, or because he doesn't know it's a nasty thing to do.

rumor is that he's getting fired soon.

[Skittles]

33. there's a guy who hums and I cannot stand humming

he usually stops when I throw food at him.....lol his beef would probably be a coworker who throws food at him. :o