A coworker of mine has been trying to speak up and argue with everyone without having any reason to do so. Many discussions we had recently has resulted to most of us wondering where he's trying to get at.

Talking about my night out with a friend of mine in a nightclub. "I rarely go to bars or nightclubs. I may have went to them maybe just four times in my life," I said, to which he replied "If you want to be socially accepted, you need to go out more regularly." Note that 1) he's a workaholic who may spend 70 hours per week working, including late evenings, early mornings, and weekends and 2) I am socially accepted and I have an outside life -- I just didn't accomplish that by going at bars. I have my own social events.

When I mentioned about another coworker being savvy of computer security to the point it borders paranoia, he said:

-- Well, he knows more than you.
-- He's almost twice my age!, I replied.
-- Yeah, but he knows more than you!
-- Why are you comparing him to me? I never said I knew more than him about security!
-- Don't twist my words!
-- I don't even need to twist your words...

Another coworker intervened and told him that his words were far from being twisted and that he needs to think more before speaking.

This morning, he talked to me about his team members having entered time during the power outage we had yesterday:

-- What kind of entry did you put during the power outage?, he asked.
-- Nothing. I didn't do anything because I couldn't do anything.
-- Well, one of my team members put time during the power outage.
-- His computer had power during the outage. Even if he didn't have Internet access, he could have done some things locally.
-- But the server was down.
-- Many of us keep copies of files on our computers. Maybe he did that!
-- I sincerely doubt it!
-- Well ask him!

If he "knows" more than I do, already knows the answer, and wants to assume what he doesn't know, why did he bother asking me in the first place?

He also likes to talk to himself a lot... But I won't interfere with his self-indulging monologues.

I'm not sure what's going on, but it seems the workplace is getting tense recently. Not to the point when everybody is at someone else's throat, but I have the impression that everybody is cranky. Let's hope it's just because of the summer heat...