Office Misfits

According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 39% of workers said they feel that they don’t fit in with their colleagues. Comparing genders, more women (42%) than men (37%) report they feel they don’t always fit in with their cube mates. When it comes to industries, health care, sales and professional and business services top the fields where workers feel that they don’t fit in with their colleagues, followed by leisure/hospitality and IT. Workers shared some of the craziest things their co-workers have done on the job:




· Co-worker ate the cheese off the pizza box at a company meeting.

· Co-worker talked openly about flatulence.

· Co-worker in the cubicle next to me wears 3-D glasses with the lenses removed.

· Co-worker repeatedly bangs a mallet on the table for no apparent reason.

· Co-worker whistles 8 hours a day.

· Former boss brought a baby sippy cup to a meeting and started drinking out of it.

· Co-worker cleaned fingernails using a counterpart’s business card while sitting in the office.



CareerBuilder’s 2010 Big Game TV advertising highlights workers who are questioning their current jobs because of workplace behavior. The TV ads can be viewed at www.careerbuilder.com/TV.

What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever observed a co-worker do?