Does this qualify as schizophrenic?
Published on April 26, 2005 By Arquonzo In Work
You're really not going to believe this story. I can hardly believe it myself, and I was sitting there.
Now to be sure, my co-worker and I have a very fundamental personality conflict to begin with ('cause he's an ass) so I'm not likely to cut him alot of slack. But judge for yourselves.
Here we are, staying at a military base for three weeks, working on a contract. It's overseas, so we get to stay at the (rather nice) on-base hotel. So we're down in the bar one evening last week, and two women walk in for a drink. We ask them where they're from, what they're doing here, etc. It turns out that the older lady's son was seriously injured in an accident, and they're here on family emergency.
Fast forward 4 days. We're walking out of the hotel on our way to work, and we notice the lady now in the lobby of the hotel, looking just devastated. Her son has died of his injuries, and she's in shock and mourning. We file past and sit on a bench to wait for our ride in silence, thinking about how awful the whole thing is, and feeling very bad for the lady, indeed. Or at least that's what I thought we were thinking. The lady gathers her composure, and walks past us to the ATM, withdraws some cash, and walks back slowly, as if in a trance, past us again. She enters the hotel, and the door closes behind her. That is when my co-worker says quietly "She's got a hot little bod."
I nearly ripped his head off.
Thank you all for letting me vent.

Comments
on Apr 27, 2005
You're right, he's an ass!
on Apr 27, 2005
HOLY CRAP!

Got access to his room? I'd shit in his shower and piss on his tooth brush. No, really, I would.

OR, military contract, eh? I don't know the details of your contract (obviously) but I do know that many military contracts require that contract people be held responsible for following the military EO/Sexual Harassment type rules while working for the military. It's a reportable offense, regardless of whether you tell him so on the spot or not, that is, if you are responsible under the military's EO/Sexual Harassment Policy. Just a thought...
on Apr 30, 2005
I don't think EO/Sexual Harassment counts if she can't hear the comment. My apologies if I didn't make that part clear. He did, at least, wait until she was back in the building with the door closed (we were outside) before he made his comment. Still....
on Apr 30, 2005
I don't think EO/Sexual Harassment counts if she can't hear the comment.


While I generally find it to cause more trouble to use the Army to fix this kind of problem, rather than a personal, one on one confrontation, it's considered by the Army to be a reportable/punishable violation if anyone, not just the person it was about, hears or sees it and is offended. Including contractor co-workers.