I have absolutely no problem telling someone "I'm having lunch here. Out."

The latest from the loud, beastly woman I work with, as documented earlier ITT... (and no, I am not exaggerating, unfortunately, I've heard this story 10 times)

A newer guy made an announcement that his wife is expecting, clearly unaware of how such a topic can snowball out control. Poor guy, completely unaware that he has rolled a live grenade onto the office floor.

New guy: Yeah, so it's about 11 weeks along.
Beast: You didn't know?
New guy: No, no idea.
Beast: Well that's what happens when you have sex with your wife and don't wrap it up! (At this point she starts her high decibal laughing spree)
New guy: Yeah..heh.
Beast: When I had my first, I had no clue.
New guy: Hmm.

(At this point I have abandoned my breakfast sandwich and am seeking shelter under a sturdy, sound proof surface)

Beast: I was drunk as **** a lot for the first couple months because I didn't know. If anyone should've had fetal alcohol syndrome, it's my Katie!
New guy: Wow. Yeah.
Beast: The weirdest part was that I had my period the whole time I was pregnant.
New guy: ....
Beast: Like, it wasn't super heavy every month, but there was definitely some blood that came out every month around that time.
New guy: Oh.
Beast: I remember one month it was really heavy and I thought I miscarried.
New guy: ...
Beast: I remember thinking, this is way too much blood to be my period.
New guy: ...
Beast: But I went to the doctor and I guess it was just some extra discharge, so everything ended up being ok. I mean, she has always had some learning disabilities, but we think that might have been caused by the hard labor I had and not really the menstrual issues or the alcohol.
New guy: Well, that's..
Beast: So when's the due date?

digusting dude

*wince*

She's gone now, but I worked with a yambag who was not too annoying until she decided to tell us she was heavy into BDSM. After a non-WTF response she 'felt free' and all her yambaggerage was about her ridiculous exploits, even pulling out her phone a lot to try and show us pictures.

The imagery in my mind was a tall skinny blonde with a whip until the revelation. Sadface.

Pretty quite/laid back software company. Guy on my team doesn't wear shoes in the winter (sandals in the summer). They are not even black socks. Really funny when he walks into meetings that way.

What kind of offices do you guys work in that nobody says to BDSM/Menstrual bitch that they should stfu and they dont want to hear their disgusting stories. A co-worker started talking about a toenail that was growing wrong and when he grabbed his phone you just say "WELL THANKS BUT I REALLY DONT WANT TO SEE HOW YOUR DISGUSTING TOENAIL LOOKS YA", or are you guys "non confrontational" ?

In my situation she has been talked to about it a few times (not by me), but it hasn't helped. Her thinking is that she's horribly underpaid for the job (which, she very much is) so the rules of professionalism aren't worth following, because she'll always be underpaid. But in reality if she'd just grow the **** up and be professional (and show some leadership to people we're hiring), they'd probably consider paying her what someone of her skill level would deserve (because all bearded clam stories aside, she would be worth it).

So basically she's the definition of a career entry level employee.

Haha. I'm pretty non-confrontational but def drew the line at phone pictures, she'd just always get excited in a convo then reach in her pocket and say 'how about I show you a picture!'



It kinda became a huge office joke though, so even though people thought it was disgusting they didn't wanna nip it in the bud

Saw a guy wearing a suit coat, nice shirt, and bare feet at work last week. Was tempted to spread staples on the floor.

You apparently have never worked around "office women". For people like the described woman, there's pretty much not anything you can say to shut them up. Why bother if it's not going to do any good?

Guy in my office has a couple of pictures in a frame of his stillborn baby on his desk. One is of his wife cradling the baby, the other is a closeup of its face. He's caucasion but the baby looks blue/black.

A year later himself and his wife threw a birthday party for the deceased child and invited people around and asked them to bring birthday cards.

I just kept thinking wtf after reading that... Thats some serious ****.

The birthday party thing is definitely wtf. But giving birth to a full-term stillborn (especially if you know already that the baby didn't make it, but have to go through the whole delivery anyway) is some traumatizing ****, people deal with it how they deal with it.

There was actually a very touching thread in OOT a while back from a guy who went through this. Search "dealing with a stillbirth".

And then there's keeping a picture of your stillborn on your desk.

Same couple have subsequently had another baby and now the guy has announced that his wife has decided that they'll adopt a baby with cererbal palsy when she's 29 (she's 25 now for what it's worth).

About 6 months ago she started taking an adult education class in nutrition and from then on he became an expert by proxy. He announced one day that milk enriched with vitamins is worse for you than alcohol because the extra vitamins ''bind to your liver'. When I called him out on this obvious BS he declared that that was just my opinion and plenty of people agreed with his way of thinking (even though ironically enough he's just parrotting his wife's pseudo-science).

I'd like to add to this. I used to work in public accounting. There was this douchebag Senior that totally overstepped his bounds often and was just a stupid douche. The things he would do include, acting like the HR department when we had an HR department, thinking he was the most important person in the firm, talking to staff in a condensing fashion, thinking he was always right, having his crappy music on loudly and then saying "if you don't like it, just ask me to turn it off," even though he has earbuds and thought we'd all like his crappy music, and finally having this stupid annoying snicker. Needless to say, I left as soon as I could.

If I was trying to make a ridiculous movie, I don't think I could have come up with something this ridiculous.

Guy sitting about 15 feet from me spent all day yesterday blowing his nose into a handkerchief. When I say all day, I mean literally every 3-4 minutes and whatever way he does it, it sounds like a trumpet every time. I can only assume he’s got hayfever and isn’t on anti-histamines because it isn’t natural to blow your nose that often. I only moved into this building two weeks ago so don’t know him well enough to have a word. He came in 20 minutes ago and has started already. Urge to kill rising….

Solid bump

Get yourself one of those service bells they have at front desks and ding it after each honk.

amazing....you have to do this. or do this instead

didn't read but lol'd at yambag

This.

Anyone that goes through this gets a pass. They pretty much have free reign. One of my exes who I was still good friends with had a still born child. Day before heart was beating and baby was fine. During delivery the baby choked on the cord. I couldn't even imagine how she felt. She was understandably a complete mess. She didn't have a birthday party or anything but she did send out still born pics and some other comments that you literally can't say anything back to. It was just an awful experience all around. You just have to let them deal with it the best way they can.