Light Friday: Strange but True Co-worker Complaints

August 28, 2009

By David R. Butcher

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We're riding out the tail-end of what seems like a particularly long week. Anyone else dragging this Friday morning?

It's Light Friday time, folks. Wake up:

(via TechEBlog)

Unlikely Co-worker Complaints
Remember that time you thought your coworker tried to poison you?

CareerBuilder.com recently surveyed 2,600 hiring managers nationwide about the oddest complaints they received from employees. Our favorites:

• Employee is trying to poison me.
• Employee breathes too loudly.
• Employee eats all the good cookies.
• Employee suspected co-worker is a pimp.
• Employee's body is magnetic and keeps de-activating my magnetic access card.
• Employee has bells on her shoes and it's not the holidays.
• Employee is personally responsible for a federally mandated tax increase.
• Employee smells like road ramps.

A few things: First of all, eating all the good cookies is not cool. Second: Maybe the purple-silk-robed coworker moonlights. Third: Are bells on shoes OK during the holidays?

Lastly: Smells like road ramps? Smells like road ramps? What does that even mean? Also, do you have to prove this? Is it grounds for dismissal? So many questions...