I'm sure I was considered a weirdo by my former coworkers.
I had an old colleague who was really inappropriate. He would make really lewd comments about women in the office, tell me about his sex life with his wife, make inappropriate jokes. It was incessant.
I tried to avoid him by working an early shift, so he started turning up 4 hours early to sit with me until the later shift came in (that later one being his actual shift, so he was at work for an extra few hours daily for no reason). I told him I took the early shift to get more work done and he's distracting me by coming in early just to chit chat, and he replied that he was just going to watch me work quietly so I wouldn't get distracted. He'd pull up a chair to my desk and just watch me work.
He would stare at me from across the room all day and I could feel his eyes on me. Sometimes he would turn up before me and unlock my office door (keys were all kept at reception) and sit at my desk until I arrived.
I told HR but nothing was done because he denied staring at me and he convinced them I was being overly sensitive.
After he left the job, he sent me a sketched photo of my face. No subject or text in the email, just this portrait of me he sketched. I was so creeped out, particularly given how I'd endured a couple of years of him speaking of aggressive inappropriate things he thought women in the office were doing with their partners, or similar things he wanted to do with this wife. So
bleeping creepy.
There was another guy who regularly clipped his nails and toenails at his desk.
To this day the sound of nail clippers makes me feel sick.
There was one temp I caught eavesdropping with his ear literally up against the door of the ladies loos as he tried to hear what the women inside were chit chatting about. I also found it weird that these women would gather to gossip in the
loos everyday- of all places.
Two of them would often chat whilst using the facilities, sitting in adjacent cubicles doing their business and having a conversation. I found that so weird.
One of the senior members on my team refused to work. He would accept every task delegated to him but never complete it. The rest of us had to scramble to get his bits done on top of our own. No amount of talking to management/ HR changed his behaviour. Yet every year he would get a promotion and a raise whilst the rest of us got nothing. I don't know how he pulled that off when there were so many formal complaints against him.
We had a new hire who would refuse tasks and watch youtube videos all day. She said she could do so because her husband also worked in the firm (very junior position in a different department) and he told her not to accept any task she didn't like the sound of. Entitled much?
Oh and there was one manager who was so cheap, he would take a train to a city an hour and a half away just to buy Chinese food. He said it was half the price and double the portion of the local Chinese. I tried to explain to him that he could always order extra from the local if he wanted larger portions, and that the extra cost would be worth it because he wouldn't be wasting 3 hours of his life every few days, but he was focused on the savings he made on the cheaper meal and didn't care about the time he lost.
He regularly got food poisoning and would be hospitalized due to eating from dodgy places that were running special low prices. SMH.
I hope he is mellowing in his old age and not as horrible to younger staff members, as over ten years on I’m still traumatised and doubt my work, as he made me feel so useless at my job.
. She would tell us vile sex stories as well & would often show pics on her phone & 'accidentally' scroll too far so we saw her pushed into some ridiculously small underwear set with her boobs & stomach just rolling out everywhere (not body shaming but when you see those images & know how she smells it didn't conjure up the best image). She would make any conversation about herself & sort of latched on to me for a while, she would tell so many lies as well.