The Creeps
There's a guy training in with me for the past couple of days and he's starting to give me the creeps. He seems to be a nice enough guy but he makes me a little uncomfortable. He's sitting with me at my desk and I'm showing him how to run the computer programs and how to type in the info, what to say on the phone, etc. Today he sat with me for 5 hours.

What started to unnerve me was that I noticed he seemed to be imitating me. I found that when I leaned back in my chair and crossed my legs, he would soon be doing it as well. When I leaned forward on the desk, he leaned forward, when I held my pen horizontally between my hands, he did the same. I noticed all this with my peripheral vision, you see, not trying to be too obvious.

Then he asked to use my hand sanitizer...

After he left I then had to sanitize my bottle of sanitizer with its own contents. That was yesterday.

Today it was slow as it got later and we were just sitting around, me wishing he'd go sit somewhere else, or go home, and him sitting there rubbing his eyes and tapping his foot, looking over his papers, being strange.

Then he asked if he could have some of my sunflower seeds...

I got up and started walking up and down the aisle, waiting, praying for time to speed up. Why didn't I just pour some out and give them to him? Why had I just said "I don't care, fine with me" and just let him reach right in?? I was just so stunned. And there he sat, like a 5 year old with his hand open, palm up, eating one at a time from the small pile in his hand, and silently cracking the shell and placing the spent shell in the garbage. One...at...a...time.
I don't even eat my sunflower seeds when someone is sitting with me!

You see, I'm not an anal retentive person, I'm not all germ-phobic, obsessive compulsive, but I work in an office. This office has lots of people who are not as good at washing their hands and covering their mouths as I am and I can't afford to get sick and miss work, so I have my hand sanitizer and I wipe down my desk, keyboard and phone every couple of days with a screen cleaning wipe which has alcohol in it. Unless of course, someone else has used my computer. In that case I wipe it down as soon as that person is out of sight.

Finally, it was time to go home, and I ran out the door. I left the sunflower seeds on my desk, I'll be throwing them away tomorrow. Must sleep. Going to the school in the morning. Looking forward to it. night

Wakefield