Admin girl: Are you sure you don’t have any meetings scheduled this afternoon or want to leave early to get a start on your weekend?
Boss: Nope, I’m all free this afternoon and thought I’d catch up on paper work.
Admin girl: Oh, okay.
Boss: Why?
Admin girl: Because when you leave early I normally give you 10 minutes’ headway and then sneak out myself.
Boss: Ugh, just go already.
Brisbane
Australia
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Coworker #1: I wonder who’ll get the Pfizer account…
Coworker #2: I hope I do! I love reading about erections!
Fort Point
Boston, Massachusetts
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Client: Is it North or South of Route 24?
Manager: Well, that depends on where you’re coming from.
Client: Oh, really? How does that work?
Huntington, New York
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Assistant checking weather online: Ohhh! Derek* got 12 inches yesterday!
Cube rat: I’m sorry, what did you say?
Assistant: He got 12 inches!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
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Coworker: Don’t close my door. Jack* and I like to communicate.
Jack: What’d you say?
Williamsburg, Virginia
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- Coworkers, Language barrier, Virginia
Social worker: Honestly, what parent in their right mind hands a toddler who is just learning to walk a wire hanger as a chew toy in goodwill and thinks it’s a good idea?
Medical Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overheard by: makin a difference
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- Consultants, Questions, Utah
Lieutenant: You work for a law enforcement agency, not a pirate ship!
Employee with sideburns: Sir?
Columbus Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
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- Bosses and Underlings, Insults, Massachusetts
Painting professor: I paint for people who look at art. Like, my mom will look at this and go, ‘Oh, I like the blue.’ And I don’t have to explain to my mother that this is actually about some weird sex thing I did.
Providence, Rhode Island
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- Gossip, Rhode Island, Teachers
HR clerk: Excuse me, ma’am, but it appears that you have something stuck in your pantyhose on your left leg.
Visiting manager’s wife: I’m not wearing pantyhose!
5760 East Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
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Scientist at desk to tech in lab: Just because you want to see hot firemen doesn’t mean you have to set off the alarm!
20925 Crossroads Circle
Waukesha, Wisconsin
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- Consultants, Gripes, Wisconsin
