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I worked with someone who would tell me very precise weird personal details (eg, “the left side of my mouth can’t taste”). I found it odd because they weren’t
by prepend 4y ago
I worked with someone who would tell me very precise weird personal details (eg, “the left side of my mouth can’t taste”).
I found it odd because they weren’t really pertinent and seemed really unique that I’ve never heard of anyone else with the condition.
I suspected he did this to try to determine who they can trust when he would remark that people were liars or not trustworthy and one time a coworker told me a completely different weird detail about them.
I never got a chance to ask them about this technique before we stopped working together.
- david422 4y agoSo was he like ... hey bud, don't tell anyone this, but ... "the left side of my mouth can't taste" Because I can't figure out how this would be helpful in any other context.
- prepend 4y agoHe never said not to tell anyone but he brought up several such details while we were working together. The information wasn’t really helpful for anything in that it wasn’t relevant to our work (making software). I never revealed the info because it was said in confidence. But we weren’t really that close so it stood out to me. My example was made up but the actual factoids were about medical issues and bodily functions. It wasn’t creepy or anything just not something I would want widely known.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThat sounds like a terrible workplace in general.
- BurningFrog 4y agoTrue. But also very interesting!
- prepend 4y agoNothing is perfect and there were trade offs. This person was really smart so the stuff we made was interesting. I wouldn’t want to work in that org again but I’d gladly work with that individual.
- robby_w_g 4y agoThis comes off more as pathologically lying rather than paranoia.