Do your co-workers’ crazy antics make you question how you fit in at your current job?
According to a new CareerBuilder survey, four-in-ten workers said they feel that they don’t fit in with their colleagues.
Comparing genders, more women (42 per cent) than men (37 per cent) report that 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.
As part of the survey, 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 talks 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 eight hours a day.
• Co-worker chews tobacco and spits it into empty soda bottles.
• 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 their office.
