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Does anyone here have some pretty interesting characters that they work with or any weirdos they can recall? I work in a warehouse, so I work around a lot of people. There's one guy that we call Dr. Giggles because he is always laughing, even without having to say anything to him. He scares me a bit. Everyone at my job seems to have a nickname, including the guy who comes up with them all. We call him the K kid (kindergarten kid). The names are numerous, like Geppetto, Pinocchio, Angus, Vinegar, Man-hands, The General, Dora the Explorer, Captain America, Panda, etc.

I don't really have any characters at my job currently. There was this one guy, three jobs ago, that was a greeter at this grocery store. He was really cool and very old. He liked to mess around with me, but one day he told me he would like to tie me up in the bottle room and touch my feet.....that was awkward....

I know no one is accusing me of it, but I just want to say that I'm not trying to imply anything with jobs. I just want to make conversation, to see what kind of whackos everybody meets at current or past jobs.

That being said, there's another co-worker there that has become a friend. He's a bit of a character, too. He gets into a lot of fights, but doesn't seem to know how to pick them since he always gets beat up. I don't know if it's possible to have different levels of severity of the disorder, but he acts like he has a slight case of ADHD.

I have never worked in a place where co-workers gave eachother nicknames... to me that's weird in and of itself (and I've worked in a LOT of different places in my 40+ years.)

I've worked in bookstores and hospitals and warehouses and construction sites and restaurants and hotels and convention centers and call centers and good jobs and bad jobs... and, man, no one ever had any nickname more unique than "Rae" (for Rachel) or "Tim."

Nor have any of my co-workers been all that interesting. They talked about football, drugs, pets, music, kids or girlfriend/boyfriend problems and that's about it.

I would have liked to have met someone who laughed at inappropriate times. If they were also really into encyclopedias, I could've checked to see if they had Asperger's Syndrome.

Ah... Bindery. Well, there you go. I've never worked at putting together paper products (at least, no one has ever hired me to do so.)

My ex-wife, Umberella, works for a bindery department (for Checks Unlimited, may we curse the name of that damn company and deluxe in general) and she says that she works with a lot of cards.

Get it? Paper products? Cards.
Ba-da-bump.

How so?

I worked in IT for 13 yrs, same location, this was a professional office environment, and I was on night shift for yrs. One guy (who eventually became a mgr for awhile) insisted on being called Tigger and gave EVERYONE nicknames. Some of the names were 'Hair-Dude', 'Grandpa', and 'Schnapwah', and some I don't dare post. He kind of tried to give me a nickname but he knew better, however he frequently did mix the similarities of my last name with another lead's first name and call me that on email or in person.

In general often the longer you work with people, the more you see their good and bad qualities and their quirks come out as well. One guy, a fellow lead on nights, a brilliant man and my work buddy for yrs, could ONLY talk about 6 topics. He knew 'everything' about politics, Disneyland, mainframes, the NRA, fishing and stocks but anything outside those topics he couldn't even feign interest. Also he was such 'an authority' about the 'Big 6' that he never let anyone have a right to their own opinion at all. I was one of the few who could get along with him, for 6.5 yrs, as I avoided most those topics.

However we had a lot of 'stranger' people at work and on shift than just this guy, night shift seems to attract them, but I know those people are everywhere.