Caught hiding under desk. What's the weirdest thing you did?

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I got caught by a coworker hiding under my desk the other day. Sometimes I get soooo overwhelmed that I need to just curl up and hide and that is what happened.

ANYWAY he laughed and I played it off and I'm sure the entire company knows that happened, but whatever.

What is the weirdest thing you ever got caught doing at work?

Making a hologram of Barbie and G.I. Joe in a copulatory position at the uni's laser lab.

LOL... I wish I could reply with something as entertaining as fnord.

Usually for me, it's just being caught stimming.
It really annoys one of my coworkers (swaying when I'm standing and agitated, or repeatedly running my hair across my lips when I'm sitting). But, luckily, this is the coworker to whom I am closest, so, when he tells me I'm doing it, I don't get offended because he's a friend and laughs at me for it.

I am lucky enough to have a dungeon (a file room in the basement) where I occasionally go to hide when I'm feeling overwhelmed. My boss has caught me rocking in a chair down there a couple of times.

Oh, during meetings, I tend to take things apart, or line up all of the items on the conference tables. I don't really realize I'm doing it until I suddenly catch myself, but, no one has made a big deal of it.

I've not been caught doing anything weird yet other than pacing a bunch when I'm waiting for something. But this reminds me of a story I heard from some of my more senior co-workers. Apparently a guy needed a rest and decided to take a nap under the clean room floor. For those who have not been in a clean room, the floor is made out of perforated 2x2' tiles that can be pulled up to access plumbing and wire ways underneath. Anyway, someone found the guy and thought he was unconscious, and they ended up calling in the emergency response team. It must have been really awkward.

I regularly go into long lectures about robots and artificial intelligence long beyond the scope of anyones interest.

:lol: I annoy people with statistics.

A decent example from a conversation I had with some colleagues a couple years ago.

A: The side work I started is expanding, I need to hire a couple of employees. One assistant, and one clerical worker.
B: Just make sure your new secretary isn't hotter than your wife.
Me: First off, why do you assume the secretary will be female? Secondly, 77% of men who have had affairs report that their mistress is actually less attractive than their spouse. Most people assume that infidelity is motivated purely by se><, when, in reality, about 80% of cheaters reveal that it isn't lack of intercourse that motivates them, but, rather, lack of respect, so you can see... (~I trail off at this point, because I realize that they're all looking at me like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears~)

I have to remind myself that NO ONE CARES about reality, they want to make a pithy statement as a joke and move on.

Drawing during meetings. People think I'm taking incredibly detailed notes and then are disappointed when they see what I was really doing. Also, knitting at my desk between shows.

I have seen an entire company put comments on their forums veiwable to the public but it is very long. paizo overheard thread

Started practicing some bboy moves on the floor of the conference-room, near the end of the work day when it is usually empty.

crawled under a rec center pool table to catch up on lost sleep, when i was in the army.

This is probably not considered weird but the strangest thing I ever caught doing at work was working. Alright, let me explain... So I was volunteering at a local hospital and I was asked to file things. So that's what I did. ...and I did it until pretty much everyone had left (and they were paid to be there). Someone eventually came in and said: "you're still here??" I said I wasn't done and they told me I didn't have to stay and I could just leave it for other people. I think a combination of my often losing track of time and wanting to do what was expected of me made me seem a bit odd in that moment. I don't think it was a bad thing, though, because when the manager of the department I was in had fired the secretary (for not working), before even putting the job in the paper, she offered it to me.

I guess sometimes strange can pay off. I got rewarded at another job for the same attention to what my employer expected. I often need such specific directions that when I'm asked to do something, I can't be satisfied with my work until I make sure I've done exactly what was asked of me. So far it hasn't held me back at all. I hope it stays that way.

I was making teas this one time, at band camp. Every time i put the spoon in the sugar, i licked it. Someone saw me doing this from quite far away and they just walked off.

I spotted a conspiracy in my industry, researched it to the point of exhaustion, and proudly presented my detailed findings to the top local guy in my field so he could alert the legislators that our state's proposed licensing bill was not designed to protect the public, but was in fact a sort of multilevel marketing program which would benefit only those who created it.

After my presentation, he stared at me blankly and told me I was nuts.

I hung my head and left his office. Two years later, it turns out that conspiracy and multilevel marketing or not, the new state licensing program is in the red financially, and the state regulatory agency is asking his opinion on whether to sunset it. He still thinks I'm nuts, but wants me to come to his office and bring my files.

I guess the weirdest thing I did was to get all worked up seeing malice everywhere, and maybe there was only incompetency or run-of-the-mill greed.

I pushed a door open too hard and it flew back and hit the wall. I laughed and put my hands over my mouth, only to see one of the assistant managers in a random room staring at me in a funny way. Oops.

did it leave a mark on the wall?

I have this thing where I get something like a bolt of electricity travelling through my brain. It is completely random and feels like almost a tickling sensation. Whenever it happens, I quickly and involuntarily raise my hands to my head and wince... really quite awkward to explain to people.