Manager to coworker: How are you doing?
Coworker: I am a little backed up.
Manager: Is there anything I can do to help?
Coworker: Nope, I'm on my way to take care of that now. (walks off to bathroom with a magazine in hand)
Keene, New Hampshire
Manager to coworker: How are you doing?
Coworker: I am a little backed up.
Manager: Is there anything I can do to help?
Coworker: Nope, I'm on my way to take care of that now. (walks off to bathroom with a magazine in hand)
Keene, New Hampshire
Female manager on call: That thing is huge! Is it six inches?!
Lewiston, Maine
Manager to duty worker: Oh, and tell them we've got a few babies flying around so expect a call from us next week.
Sheffield
England
Angry manager: You are talking apples, I am talking oranges, and we're both trying to get to the banana!
Lynnwood, Washington
Engineer: It's a mini keyboard. I have a computer hooked up to my tv so I can browse the internet and watch p… movies.
Manager, laughing: I heard the “p.”
Salesgirl: Wait, so you lay in bed and play with it?
Manager: Actually, yes, that's exactly what he was saying.
Sales girl: Oh, can I touch it?
Engineer: Only me and the FedEx driver have touched it.
New York, New York
Admin to another, about stapler: Yeah, with that long black one, you really have to yank it hard or nothing comes out.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Is that so?
Administrator, on phone: What? The internet's going to go down? Why don't you just suck all the oxygen out of the building?
Manhattan, New York
Manager, in frustration: I have cough drops, tea, antibiotics, cough medicine, and I'm even wearing a panty liner in case I cough too hard.
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Accounting manager to IT manager, after lengthy discussion on software solution: You're not right, but that will work.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: makes sense
