Mystery Employee →[More:]
I think almost every office must have one of these Mystery Employees. What on earth does this guy actually do? He's the one you see all the time, hanging out at the coffee service area, or in hallways shooting the breeze. He's really friendly and everyone knows him. He's the dude who greets you in the morning and asks you how your cat is recovering from hip surgery, etc.

Our version of the Mystery Employee has an office somewhere upstairs, which means he's Relatively Important. Yet he's rarely in his office and I've never seen him send out sitewide emails or department updates, which most of those execs do from time to time. He's usually just hanging out in someone's cube, gossiping or talking about golf.

I have worked in so many different departments and on so many different projects at this place that I now pretty much know everyone on the plantsite; executives, engineers, chemists, mechanics, operators, administrative staff, warehouse gofers, IT geeks, regulatory nerds, HR folks, Finance bean-counters, even our token PR/Marketing guy (who is constantly in his office schmoozing on the phone, does a ton of work on the corporate intranet and sends out bunches of Market-y emails, so our Mystery Employee is not our Marketing director, which would have been my first guess). You name it, I can put a function to nearly every face I see.

This guy, however - I have no clue what he does. Maybe he's just the site mascot? I haven't seen him yet this morning, or I'd flat out ask him, since it only just now occurred to me to wonder.

Office bunnies: do you have a Mystery Employee in your office? Do you have any logical (or creative) guesses as to what our Mystery Employee does?