Thanks guys for the ideas (and chuckles). He is "that guy" that 95% of my co-workers can’t stand but the 5% that like him are the ones that he needs in his corner. Just to give you an idea of things that have transpired in the last week:
- He books our executive conference room for 3 hours on Wed to work on something by himself, drinking pop and eating chips the whole time. (This room is stocked with beverages and snacks for customer visits). On Thur there is a meeting scheduled in same conference room because it was a large group of people. 2 people in the meeting grab a pop out of the fridge and he immediately says "I don't know if anyone hasn’t told you, but the beverages are for customers only, HR is really cracking down on people drinking free pop" (good time to note that 95% of the company is pretty sure him and the HR manager are having an affair)
- It has been documented that he spends 30-45 minutes a day walking laps around my area so that he can "bump" into one of the VPs to remind them that a project he is involved with has a potential savings of $400k (even though everyone else did the work and he is taking the credit)
- Last Thur was a busy day for me; I took 15 minutes to eat my lunch at my desk while I worked on some emails. Of that 15 minutes I checked the weather for a few minutes and out of nowhere I here "that doesn’t look like work", only to turn around and see him peering through my cube window. The way my cube is situated you can’t happen to just see through my window and look at my computer screen, you purposely have to looking. Another good thing to note is on this day him and the HR manager were in the lunchroom for 90 minutes eating their lunches together. I know this because I grabbed my lunch out of the fridge at noon and went down at 1:30 to get a Redbull and they were still there.
- He is a PM and one of my good friends happens to also be a PM. My buddy, very busy, our d bag....no one really seems to know what he does all day. I stopped in my buddies cube on Wed to see how his holidays were. Within 20 spoken words d bag is "prairie doggin" (term we have dubbed every time he pokes his head up above his cube to see who is at other people's cubes). My buddy has a cube next to our water and coffee pot. Each and every time I stop by to say hi, he prairie dogs, comes over and adds maybe a tablespoon of coffee or water to his mug and just hangs out on the other side of the cube for 2-3 minutes.