[Closed] Strange Colleague

Well, I reckon i can eat a rice cake in about 2 minutes. So, if he is eating them constantly over an 8 hour working day, allowing 20 minutes to eat lunch, assuming lunch is not rice cakes. Then that would be about 230 rice cakes every day! I agree OP, that is really weird

Oh and low and behold, I have just gone to make a cup of coffee and as I walk in he is walking out with a hot drink and the kettle is empty, teamwork at its best !

What a Kant!

half Lilt, half gin
Tilt?

Tilt??

I used to work with a mental health nurse who would arrive at the community Base about an hour before the start time and have a massive dump and leave it unflushed in the pan. You knew no attempt had been made to flush, as the dump could be seen garnished with dry bog roll. Due to the location of the toilet to the office the entire place would stink of fresh shite by the time everyone was getting into work. Oddly not a word was ever said.

I've been in my current job just under nine years and there is a guy who started roughly six months after me, I've never heard his voice. I've even tried (and so have others) to engage him in conversation and he just nods. Seems like a very clever guy judging by his output and will communicate via email no problems. I can't go five minutes without talking so find it a bit weird.

So the guy is spending £17 a day on rice cakes, expensive habit.

Oh and low and behold, I have just gone to make a cup of coffee and as I walk in he is walking out with a hot drink and the kettle is empty, teamwork at its best !

Gross misconduct surely.

Is that how you came to have the name "smell_it" 😕

I hate the non brew getters, why don't you take the P and say 'we'll all have one please Gary?' or 'sort yourself out then gary'

I started work at a new depot around a decade ago, (within the same company) after a couple of weeks i noticed that one of the other members of staff flatly refused to speak to me, i had no idea why, although i found out later that one of the other members of staff who i got on reasonably well with, was his ex.
Once id figured all this out, i made a special effort to speak to him if there were other people present, because i knew he would just turn his head away from me.
Not that long after he was sacked for gross misconduct.
There are some strange people about.
I wouldn't wish him to lose his job though, i just silently thought he was an asshole.

as I walk in he is walking out with a hot drink and the kettle is empty

That is how kettles work - you put in just enough water to avoid wasting electricity, you boil it, you pour it in your cup.
The next person then repeats.

If you was to meet this guy

You've lost me, OP.

I tend to steer clear of colleagues who don't understand grammar too. Call me a snob if you like, but I don't like wasting time conversing with thickos.

Reboiled water is also not good for coffee/tea.

[i]I tend to steer clear of colleagues who don't understand grammar too. Call me a snob if you like[/i]

Not a snob. Just a bit... no, very, weird.

You lot need to stop being so reasonable. Just admit it, the way he has been described, his actions around the kettle, his behaviour towards others is strange. Spin it anyway you like for comedic effect, but it seems pretty obvious to me that this fella has a strangely anti-social and disruptive colleague. I don't know what to advise,other than to keep his head down, carry on eating the rice cakes, enjoy his swimming and look forward to the day he can leave.

Ha ha brilliant CharlieMungus, "walking the mile, walking the mile"

Reboiled water is also not good for coffee/tea.

Cobblers.

All water on the planet has been reboiled a million times over.

If you said 'back in the day' and 'anyways' in conversation with me I'd ignore you too.

Not to mention "passive aggressive" and "said weirdo".

Forget Rice cakes man....I'm still reeling from the story about the guy washing his pants every morning in the sink, whilst naked! I mean WTF!

Must be oop North! 🙂

I work as a truck driver. You lot have no idea how weird colleagues can be.
Prostitute murdering etc....

I suppose you posh southerners wash them while wearing them then?

I suppose you posh southerners wash them while wearing them then?

Well, i hope they get on with whoever they swap with

he is walking out with a hot drink and the kettle is empty

from experience any man working in an office is slightly strange, i dont work and never have worked in an office for that reason.......

Oi, I resemble that remark

Think we need a picture of this guy whilst eating a rice cake to help us decide.

OP comes across as a complete ****stain

Think we need a picture of this guy whilst eating a rice cake to help us decide.

Put the picture up by all means. I'll have to go and get some rice cakes though

Oh and low and behold, I have just gone to make a cup of coffee and as I walk in he is walking out with a hot drink and the kettle is empty, teamwork at its best !

What you need is an Office Linebacker

Cougar - Moderator 
Cobblers.
All water on the planet has been reboiled a million times over.

But each time you reboil the kettle the water isn't evaporating into the atmosphere, raining down and filtering through the ground/rocks and filtering systems in water plants, being oxygenated and all that.

But then that could be a load of bollocks as an argument also 😀

I agree the stuff you find on the net about it being harmful to reboil is cobblers. Not so sure about taste though. A lot of argument that you're concentrating the minerals each time you do it. In my experience I find the limescale builds up more, even using filtered water. If I empty and fill fresh from filter, it doesn't seem to do that. And growing up in a soft water area and now living in hard water area, I find hard water taste is terrible in tea and coffee (especially tea).

Those dark chocolate rice thins from the free-from section are quite good.

Anyone else ever come across such a specimen and if so share your experience ??

I work with around 800 'specimens' every day at work. 😆

One colleague doesn't fill the communal kettle after making himself a drink.

Another colleague is so disgusted by this he goes on the internet to bitch about him to strangers.

Whose behaviour is the more "strange"?

OP, if I worked with you, I wouldn't talk to you either.

I have a high degree of confidence I am viewed as the office wierdo , I am really comfortable with that . 50% of my colleagues enjoy the way I am 50% are insecure dullards . management tolerate me as I get stuff done.

To be fair if we had an H R dept I would be out on my ear.

What an utterly deplorable thing to do to another human being. I suspect your "strange" work colleague is a good judge of character.

i imagine this hasn't gone entirely as the OP hoped.....

I was unsure until the bit about pow-wows. Now I'm on the colleague's side - I'm going to start only referring to pow-wows at work from now on. 🙂

I am really comfortable with that . 50% of my colleagues enjoy the way I am 50% are insecure dullards

You're on a knife edge - all it takes is one of that first 50% to retire, get pregnant of get run over by a bus and you're screwed.

Your career is literally hanging in the balance and you're here making small talk.

I don't think I can't bear the tension.

's Brexit innit