the unhinged skit, the bank card PIN, and other times coworkers massively overshared at work

Earlier this month, we talked about times when coworkers have really overshared at work, and here are 10 of the most ridiculous stories you shared.

1. The wireless mike

At a local stage production, while the audience sat quietly in the darkened theater awaiting the start of the show, a graphic description of the previous night’s one-night stand, including groans of subsequent aches and chafing, clearly came out over the leading lady’s wireless microphone clipped to her costume as she relieved herself on the toilet.

2. The skit

I used to be a teacher at a prison — very odd population of people, a mix of mercenaries, martyrs, and misfits. For a statewide conference, the team from each prison came up to the stage and gave a brief (10 minutes, I think?) overview of their program. Ours was about some new technology we’d just gotten and some light bragging about attendance at a recent graduation ceremony.

Another team came up and did an absolutely unhinged skit about the personality conflicts they’d had in the last year, including publicly accusing two teachers of having an affair. These were all people in their 40s or older who absolutely should have known better.

3. The tattoo

Last year, a client in his mid-60s decided to get a tattoo, and decided I was the person who would be most excited for him. I talk to him maybe a couple times a year and have no tattoos of my own. He told me all about the tattoo, the design’s personal significance, the process of finding an artist, and how much his wife hated the idea and was going to kill him for getting it. I was the first person he showed when it to, as he texted me a photo literally minutes after it was done. He then called me the following week to fill me in on the fight he had with his wife afterwards. Haven’t spoken to him since.

4. The last year

My coworker once asked me what year I was born, and upon learning the year said: “Oh! That was the last year my husband touched me. I miss sex sometimes.”

I was speechless. I think my response was to mutter condolences and walk away.

5. The vasectomy

My boss told me all about his vasectomy on my first day of work.

6. The PIN

We bought a couple of key lockboxes for work. I asked my coworker what four-digit code he wanted for them. He immediately picked one and, as I started setting the combination, he told me, “That’s my bank card PIN number!”

7. The meeting delay

I had a sorta boss who used to begin our weekly group meetings with, “Sorry, I was shitting.” If you had any type of negative reaction to that, she’d just stare you down and give a very condescending, “You know, everybody poops. You’re the one with the hang up here” type lecture.

8. The new hire’s surgery

A coworker gave me a detailed explanation of her breast reduction surgery. Complete with indicating where on her chest things had been.

It was HER FIRST DAY.

9. The toenail

I had a coworker with a bad toe infection for which she was receiving medical treatment for months. She took pictures of the infected toe every day and without fail would describe the condition of her toe each day and try to show the pictures to me.

10. The car salesman

I was shopping for a car and went to a dealer for a test drive. We start off on the test drive and the sales guy is in the back seat. He leans up in the gap between the front seats, one elbow on each. “So, can I ask you a question?” Thinking he’s going to ask something about the car and how I like it, I say sure. “Do you think exes can still be friends?”

I . . . what? Um, yes, I guess so, if they both want to be? He then proceeded to detail his relationship with his (ex-) girlfriend, how they’d planned to move to this area together, but then she broke up with him and said they could stay friends, then she moved here without him, so he followed and moved here, so maybe they could stay friends.

My dude, if she said you could stay friends, then moved 1,000 miles away, chances are she didn’t really mean it and she’s probably a bit concerned that you moved 1,000 miles to follow her.

I did not buy the car.

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