When I was working at the local university I inherited a computer from a coworker that had been laid off. Everyone got the creepy vibe from him but he never did anything that was worthy of action other than making sure he was present at all mandatory sexual harassment training. After I had been using the computer for a month or so I got frustrated with how slow it was running so I started going through all the files and history to clear things out. I found a few folders that contained a total of more than 2000 porn pictures and videos. Quite a few of them with "rape" in the title. That was an interesting discussion to have with my boss. She told me to go ahead and send the computer out to IT to get it cleaned. I was grateful that I had kept my own keyboard and just moved the tower because I don't want to know what kind of yucky was being squirted around his office.
When a team member of ours left he gave us his blog link. It was a little scary including a note that he had purposely put some bad code into the software that no one had yet noticed. We didn't know what it was (nothing looked bad).
His blog also included a gem about how he had been lusting after a girl for years but her fiance asked him to stop writing about her in his blog so he agreed to stop.
When I was working at the local university I inherited a computer from a coworker that had been laid off. Everyone got the creepy vibe from him but he never did anything that was worthy of action other than making sure he was present at all mandatory sexual harassment training. After I had been using the computer for a month or so I got frustrated with how slow it was running so I started going through all the files and history to clear things out. I found a few folders that contained a total of more than 2000 porn pictures and videos. Quite a few of them with "rape" in the title. That was an interesting discussion to have with my boss. She told me to go ahead and send the computer out to IT to get it cleaned. I was grateful that I had kept my own keyboard and just moved the tower because I don't want to know what kind of yucky was being squirted around his office.
Omg my dad had the same experience! Except with the added bonus of havig naked pictures of his predecessor, a rather portly man, on the computer too! And online gambling programs which auto-signed him on, but under his predecessor's credit card info.
When I was working at the local university I inherited a computer from a coworker that had been laid off. Everyone got the creepy vibe from him but he never did anything that was worthy of action other than making sure he was present at all mandatory sexual harassment training. After I had been using the computer for a month or so I got frustrated with how slow it was running so I started going through all the files and history to clear things out. I found a few folders that contained a total of more than 2000 porn pictures and videos. Quite a few of them with "rape" in the title. That was an interesting discussion to have with my boss. She told me to go ahead and send the computer out to IT to get it cleaned. I was grateful that I had kept my own keyboard and just moved the tower because I don't want to know what kind of yucky was being squirted around his office.
Omg my dad had the same experience! Except with the added bonus of havig naked pictures of his predecessor, a rather portly man, on the computer too! And online gambling programs which auto-signed him on, but under his predecessor's credit card info.
Yikes! I am glad I didn't have any pictures of my old coworker. He was also rather portly and about 60 years old. I would have been seriously scarred for life.
My own weirdest experience: a middle ago make coworker clipping his toenail at his desk. In a very, very public place. And asking me if I thought he had an ingrown toenail. Ewes.
My mom once walked into the bathroom at her work to find a coworker naked from the waist down washing out her underwear and pants in the sink because she had diarrhea and didn't make it to the toilet in time. Just go home if that happens!
My own weirdest experience: a middle ago make coworker clipping his toenail at his desk. In a very, very public place. And asking me if I thought he had an ingrown toenail. Ewes.
Eww. I have a coworker who whips off his sandals and lotions up his feet like it's no big deal.
My office has a mannequin (I work in software). He has a name and a filing cabinet full of assorted outfits; he's currently sporting a mullet and American flag pants.
We also had a cricket eating competition this week.
Nonny - we had a concrete pig garden statue. We'd dress him up in Hawaiian gear every time my former boss went to Florida, to greet him on his return. His name was Jimmy, after a former partner. The partners all voted on his name and the former partner that formed another firm was the winning entry. Jimmy the Pig.
Post by runblondie26 on Aug 29, 2014 12:30:47 GMT -5
Along the lines of the waffle iron, we once had to get an HR rep to speak to an employee about why it was unacceptable to use a George Foreman grill in her cube.
Confession: I would like to bike commute, but posts like one of the responses there about Lance Armstrong wear was really off-putting and reinforce for me that it is probably a bad idea.
Confession: I would like to bike commute, but posts like one of the responses there about Lance Armstrong wear was really off-putting and reinforce for me that it is probably a bad idea.
I think if you walked straight into a locker room or rest room upon arrival, it would be a lot less awkward than these folks.
Confession: I would like to bike commute, but posts like one of the responses there about Lance Armstrong wear was really off-putting and reinforce for me that it is probably a bad idea.
I think if you walked straight into a locker room or rest room upon arrival, it would be a lot less awkward than these folks.
In my entire building, we don't have a single "one at a time" restroom or locker room. It's not impossible, but it sure makes it less easy.