I shared a windowless office for a couple years with a 75 year old 'employee' who stopped talking to me after he found out i voted democrat. I'm not sure what he was hired to do, but he spent all day trading stocks on his cell while giving me suspicious leers as he whispered into the phone. When he wasn't trading he slept at his desk. He also would stock pile the free lunch they gave out every wednesday and bits of rotting food would emanate from his desk and space. he'd also work the weekends to take advantage of the lunch the company would buy for employees who'd come into to do actual work. i wore earplugs or headphones all day, to avoid the distracting sounds of candy sucking, burping, and snoring. he also would print out reams and reams of paper for his stock charts every evening, which was funny since the department head was such a stickler for recycling printer paper. there's so much more i could write about but i'd need 5 more cups of coffee. i've since left the place and heard he got fired in a recent round of layoffs. good thing.
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I shared a windowless office for a couple years with a 75 year old 'employee' who stopped talking to me after he found out i voted democrat. I'm not sure what he was hired to do, but he spent all day trading stocks on his cell while giving me suspicious leers as he whispered into the phone. When he wasn't trading he slept at his desk. He also would stock pile the free lunch they gave out every wednesday and bits of rotting food would emanate from his desk and space. he'd also work the weekends to take advantage of the lunch the company would buy for employees who'd come into to do actual work. i wore earplugs or headphones all day, to avoid the distracting sounds of candy sucking, burping, and snoring. he also would print out reams and reams of paper for his stock charts every evening, which was funny since the department head was such a stickler for recycling printer paper. there's so much more i could write about but i'd need 5 more cups of coffee. i've since left the place and heard he got fired in a recent round of layoffs. good thing.