Manager: Oh, good. As long as she doesn't know what she's doing, we're okay.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: BeccaGo
Manager: Oh, good. As long as she doesn't know what she's doing, we're okay.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: BeccaGo
HR admin to uninterested IT guy: I’ll be perfectly happy once I’m not morbidly obese.
1037 West 9th Street
Upland, California
Overheard by: Convinced she’s correct
(phone rings)
Associate #1: What's the deal with the ringing phone?
Associate #2: Do you think we're supposed to answer it?
(phone keeps ringing)
Associate #3: What if it's not for us? What do we say?
Associate #1: Who do you think they're calling for?
(assistant runs in from next office and answers)
Atlanta, Georgia
Estimator: We’re going to sit on their heads until they shit nickels.
8531 Marginal Way
Seattle, Washington
Office drone #1: Last week I was on MySpace, and I dropped my old high school girlfriend a line. Would you see this as being friendly or creepy?
Office drone #2: Well, did you search specifically for her?
Office drone #1: No, I seriously just happened across her through my high school’s page, but unbeknownst to me she had just recently set up her account. I’m just freaked out that it looks like I’ve been trolling the internet waters waiting for her to surface and then, bam! Ten years ago that would have been the case, but not now.
Liberty Drive
Bloomington, Indiana
Overheard by: giselle
Assistant manager: I wouldn’t be able to find anything in these files even with a Ouija board and a fifth of Jack Daniels.
5760 East Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Office Manager: Are the purple ones grape?
Bored Admin: No, they’re not
Office Manager: Are they sugar-free?
Bored Admin: Ah, no, they’re not.
Office Manager: They look eastery!
111 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Young secretary #1: I don't understand why men are all interested in cougars now.
Young male employee: Mmmmm… cougars.
Young secretary #2: There's a Greek quote that says the older chicken is juicier.
Young secretary #1: Yeah… But isn't it harder to chew?
Lausanne
Switzerland
Overheard by: You lost me at juicier.
Supervisor: I saw a unicorn just the other day!
Coworker #1: No, you did not. They're extinct.
Supervisor: What?
Coworker #2: What?
Coworker #1: They been extinct since Jesus's time!
Supervisor: You believe in mermaids?
Coworker #1: Well, duh, mermaids were around during Jesus too!
Coworker #2: Neither of those things exist.
Coworker #1: Ohmigod! Are you serious? But my mom told me when I was a kid!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Malikat
Secretary: This photocopier is broken.
Office service staff: Why, what's it doing?
Secretary: Well, I tried to make a color copy, but it came out black and white.
Office service staff, looking at original: Um, your original is black and white.
Secretary: Yes, I know, I thought it would insert color onto it.
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: Legally Retarded
