# The Worst Co-Worker Ever - Read And Weep For Me
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 13, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965 "2003-05-13T15:06:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965/61 "2003-05-16T00:31:57Z")
Primaflora, if I were in the business of drive-by insults without the wherewithal to engage in a discussion, I’d run away as well. If you fear public embarrassment, write about me in your private journal next time.
… I assume you are addressing me, and the inability to spell my name is symptomatic of your stunted intellect.
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### Author:  [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965/62 "2003-05-16T01:25:59Z")
Holy Shit!!!
You know how they say "There’s someone for everybody? Well, tell Al, “Have I got a gal for you!”
You have just described, to a T an ex co-worker. I remember one time, I was trapped in the lab with her, and was desperately skulking about for something to pretend to be absorbed in so I could ignore her. It was futile. Her ceaseless, mind-numbing droning was so relentless that I was quite literally shrieking (mentally) “Shut up, shut upSHUDDUPSHUDDUPSHUDDUP… JUST…SHUT…THE…FUCK…UP!”
I then realized that everything had gone completely silent; evidently, I had been “thinking aloud.”
That episode made me something of a folk legend at work.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965/63 "2003-05-16T03:57:48Z")
Waverly… is that you, Al?
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965/64 "2003-05-16T09:46:13Z")
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> \*Originally posted by RickJay \*
> \*\*Waverly… is that you, Al? \*\*
Yep, now get back to work. I made a list of internet tools you could use and should install on your computer. I couldn’t find any paper except for the piece you have framed on your desk. It has a picture of people or something on it, but you can still read my list.
Seriously - sorry for the hijack. I won’t participate in a flame war in your thread.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-co-worker-ever-read-and-weep-for-me/174965/65 "2003-05-16T10:00:51Z")
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> \*Originally posted by RickJay \*
> **The autism/Asperger’s comments may be correct. Al is - I don’t know how to describe it, but we’ve all had to work with someone like this once or twice - someone who just does not seem to GET other people. He’s not totally devoid of manners or anything like that, and he’s not delusional or hearing voices, but he’s… off.**
Sounds like me, actually. Anyhoo, I’m _this_ close to telling the story of the cow-orker who continues to make me ashamed to call myself a computer nerd, but I don’t think I can do him justice.
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