Not so much a stupid colleague and batsh1t mental, but still.

I started off my working life after uni in the civil service. Being low on actual work experience, I started as an Admin Assistant while my immediate supervisor had been there for years so experience meant she had risen to one grade above me.

Her highlights included sticking an A4 printed sheet on the department hole punch reading:-
"Please do not use the 2 hole punch to punch one hole in paper as it grinds down the metal punchers"
Predictably, by the time she got back from her lunch that day someone had punched a single hole in the note.
The request for hole punch respect was voluntarily removed that afternoon.

After we stopped working together but in the same section I was told by my official boss to sort out First aid courses for the appropriate people. I worked my way round the section asking if peoples certificates were up to date eventually arriving at H's desk to find she was off sick that day.
So the person she worked beside volunteered the information that H had been on the course a month previously, I marked that on the records and job done.
2 days later I get into work and my boss pulled me aside to tell me that H had filed a 3 page official complaint about me for "talking about her courses behind her back."
I kid you not.
My boss gave it the due consideration it deserved and binned it before it went any further, but still.

I should mention that I thought H and I got on fine and we had never had any run ins before this point. There was no animosity between us and Id never knowingly done anything to antagonise her.

Of course, things started to take a more crazy turn when she came in after Christmas one year saying her fiance (who had never been mentioned before) has been out on his motorbike over the holidays bombing down a country lane when he ran fowl of a wire someone had run at head head between two trees. This apparantly decapitated him, killing him instantly (as decapitation will do.)
Thing was, this never made the news and she never took a single day off to grieve. Not even for the funeral.
I'm not sure how stupid she thought anyone else was that we would believe this....especially so soon after her 'hysterectomy' that again she took no time off to recover from.

Of course, I do realise that this goes beyond stupidity and borders on psychological problems. Didn't stop her getting promoted up the chain after I left though.

As bad as this sounds, she wasn't the worst mentalist I met while in the civil service. The place was afraid to let anyone go, so you ended up with a abnormally high amount of crazies and dead weight in one building.

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(Upallnighteatingcheese, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 8:53, 2 replies)

Here's another fine selection:
www.b3ta.com/questions/bastardcolleagues/post116034
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 10:36, closed)

I also used to work in the Civil Service
as an admin assistant when I left school and you are quite correct, there was a large number of assorted crazies in a relatively small office - notably one of my "bosses" who used to sleep all day.
(twoheads Is currently broke on, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 10:58, closed)