# What's Up With My Coworker Constantly On The Move

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-my-coworker-constantly-on-the-move/608740>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 7, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-my-coworker-constantly-on-the-move/608740 "2012-01-07T15:58:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-my-coworker-constantly-on-the-move/608740/21 "2012-01-11T19:01:30Z")

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> [@Antinor01](#):
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> I worked with a woman who due to thyroid problems had an insanely high metabolism and just couldn’t stay still. She would take 6-8 aspirin at a time, eat all the time and was always on the move. She was skinny as a rail and would lose weight if she didn’t eat every couple hours.

What was the purpose of the aspirin?

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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-my-coworker-constantly-on-the-move/608740/22 "2012-01-11T19:35:05Z")

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> [@Lust4Life](#):
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> I have been that person, it was caused by being bored with the job.

That would be my guess. He’s probably standing there all day thinking “I’m gonna go out of my FUCKING mind if something doesn’t happen around here!”

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-my-coworker-constantly-on-the-move/608740/23 "2012-01-11T19:58:07Z")

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> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#):
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> I know someone like this. One summer, more or less to work off excess energy, he added a story to his house.

Now, years later… 😃

(Conjures up some humorous visions of some kind of insane Winchester House like structure growing over his yard.)

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