What's making you a tad apprehensive today?

[Clodfobble]

Mr. Clod's coworker went insane this week. The first hints were at Christmas, when an anonymous Santa gave everyone on their team a copy of this incredibly dense, philosophical "poetry" by some ancient Eastern somebody-or-another. They all thought it was rather weird, and even weirder when it was eventually revealed that coworker "John" was the one who'd done it, as he was just another computer geek like the rest of them, and never seemed the type.

Then last Sunday, John started posting some very strange ramblings on their company-wide messageboard (it was an on-call maintenance weekend, lots of people were doing work that day.) Randomly declaring "new mindsets" he was trying out, and asking for opinions on how his psychological workflow might be affected by his new desk arrangement, which was no different that anyone could tell. When people ignored him, he began replying to his own posts. Everyone sort of thought it was an April Fool's joke, except he was pushing it too far and never said "April Fools."

Today he escalated to posting full-blown philosophical manifestos to the company messageboard that didn't make any sense at all, pages and pages that he was writing on the spot instead of working. They deleted his account from the messageboard, but rather than take the hint he immediately registered for a new one and continued.

He was pulled aside and told to go home for the weekend, take a break and get some sleep. And we don't know what happened next, but all of a sudden Mr. Clod's team is on red alert to change all the passwords and lock him out of the system, as he was no longer an employee at the company.

Fortunately, Mr. Clod is already taking Monday off, so he won't be there if the guy decides to come back and kill everyone.