Weird Workmates

[Couldyajust]

Not so much a work mate but when I was an NPTC assessor I asked the candidate to prepare the tree ready for felling. He walked straight up to the tree, hugged it and said a few words under his breath; he then began to clear escape routes etc.

 

When I asked him what he had done and said he stated 'Saying thanks to the tree and apologising to the wood fairies for its felling.....'

 

I once had a customer worse than that. Was prepping a load of lodgepole pine they had bought in ready to build a massive roundhouse yurt halfway up a mountain. In order to get it up the track to where it was going to be built had to cut a single branch on a silver birch that was in the way. Before I was allowed to do so we had to have 5 minutes silent meditation followed by a prayer being said. When the branch was eventually cut they were in tears, they then proceeded to wrap the branch in a blanket & took it off somewhere while they decided what its purpose would be.

[Python]

Ive had a work mate that ONLY ate space raiders, he also took to wearing a gold glittery blouse that he found in a charity shop when he was climbing, he launched a large milkshake across the cab once because it was the wrong flavour, drove for over an hour with his hand on the horn, and regularly shat himself...... He was a scary scary little man lol

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Worked with a guy once who pleasures himself whenever he was in a traffic jam, luckily he never did it in the cab but we caught him doing it in his truck when he had to take it to site one day. He said most people do it and it is completely normal. Then get stupidly annoyed when we said it wasn't. Really calm lad usually but if you brought up he's 'habits' he would turn in to a very angry person.

Very odd chap indeed

[Andrew Gale]

Tip my hat to that fella . He's obviously more in touch with life than you

 

That's a bit harsh; I'm perfectly in touch with life thank you very much..

[Mesterh]

There are some weird scary people out there that need removing from the gene pool!

[Lazurus]

And I thought working in local government was weird, must be something in the fuel you guys use.Lol

[Mr MEng]

And I thought working in local government was weird, must be something in the fuel you guys use.Lol

 

Not if you use Aspen

[skyhuck]

Once had a lad who had a phobia of Birds, a single feather would totally freak him out.

[oldwoodcutter]

Ive known a few in my time, some bordering on being certified, who would have been safer for everybody in a straight jacket. Others just weird like a middle aged chap that joined the team, and quite quickly his habit of touching himself over his trousers became very noticable and more and more frequent,like every 20 seconds or so if he had a free hand. Obviously the other guys in the crew asked him what he was up to,but he would simply shrug it off as if he didn't know what they were talking about.

A good worker but not what customers want to see on their property, i remember when i mentioned my concerns to him,and his future with us, he looked at me as if i was bonkers.

[bluebedouin]

Worked with a guy once who pleasures himself whenever he was in a traffic jam, luckily he never did it in the cab but we caught him doing it in his truck when he had to take it to site one day. He said most people do it and it is completely normal. Then get stupidly annoyed when we said it wasn't. Really calm lad usually but if you brought up he's 'habits' he would turn in to a very angry person.

Very odd chap indeed

 

Ive known a few in my time, some bordering on being certified, who would have been safer for everybody in a straight jacket. Others just weird like a middle aged chap that joined the team, and quite quickly his habit of touching himself over his trousers became very noticable and more and more frequent,like every 20 seconds or so if he had a free hand. Obviously the other guys in the crew asked him what he was up to,but he would simply shrug it off as if he didn't know what they were talking about.

A good worker but not what customers want to see on their property, i remember when i mentioned my concerns to him,and his future with us, he looked at me as if i was bonkers.

Sounds like Chucky Marstein from S.O.A.The chinese chopped his fingers off!

Edited January 15, 2016 by bluebedouin
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