Strange work colleague
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So been sharing a office with a guy for 6 months. He is completely professional, not got a single complaint work wise. However he seams to have taken a instant dislike to me. I try to make conversation with him as we are in close proximity for 6-8 hours a day. All i get back is one word answers, but everyone else gets full on chats. He gets up and goes to the shop. Never asks if i want anything, just appears with cans of coke and sweets. My last office colleague was a ok guy. We would chat as we worked about cars,football,our kids,politics etc. Not as great mates, just general work chat. This new guy is so closed of, but only to me. Not done anything to upset him. I have asked if everything is ok in our office, he just said "yip, why would it not be?". Now i know i may come across with this post all "why wont he like me" but its not like that. It makes for a unpleasant, strange work environment. Not sure if I've put across very well what im trying to convey. Anyone had a similar issue at work?
I shared an office with a bloke who went "postal" at me one lunch break for typing "too loudly"
Started screaming at me, about what a t
t I was, and how he hated me, and how I was really really selfish, for typing when he was trying to sleep.
Mind you, he started being nice to me, when I diagnosed imminent turbo failure on his 54 reg megane 240 orange st box, thus preventing total engine failure due to parts of the turbo being ingested into the engine.
It turned out he had mental health issues, and worse still lived with his dad, at age 35.
Started screaming at me, about what a t
t I was, and how he hated me, and how I was really really selfish, for typing when he was trying to sleep. Mind you, he started being nice to me, when I diagnosed imminent turbo failure on his 54 reg megane 240 orange s
t box, thus preventing total engine failure due to parts of the turbo being ingested into the engine. It turned out he had mental health issues, and worse still lived with his dad, at age 35.
Maybe he just doesn't like you that much.
I have worked with a guy before that never directly said an unpleasant thing to me, but who I found to be clueless, self satisfied, insincere and smarmy. I never had much to say to him.
Work place politics meant that I had to refrain from telling him what I thought of him, so he probably had a similar impression of me as you are doing OP with your guy.
I have worked with a guy before that never directly said an unpleasant thing to me, but who I found to be clueless, self satisfied, insincere and smarmy. I never had much to say to him.
Work place politics meant that I had to refrain from telling him what I thought of him, so he probably had a similar impression of me as you are doing OP with your guy.
northwest monkey said:
Tell him about the time you used to work at Knowsley Safari Park and you oversteered an L200 into a penguin or the time you saved a fit bird from a shark attack by strangling it with an eel.
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