Advice

IT guy: If you're going to buy a Mac at this place, why don't you just save some money and buy a sack of potatoes instead? They'll both do the same amount of computing and a sack of potatoes is a lot cheaper!

Bethesda, Maryland

Overheard by: IT Chick

Coworker on sales call: Oh, yeah, you keep doing that–that's just too much fun to make you quit!

Franklin, Tennessee

Manager: I'm so stressed I'm going to jump out of the 5th floor window.
Coworker: It's not high enough. You'd need to go to at least the 7th to ensure death.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Team leader to claims adjuster: You know what? Sometimes you just gotta go in there, bend over and say “here, John*, just take me.”

Brentwood, Tennessee

Employee #1: My stepdaughter won over $2000.
Employee #2: What's she gonna do with all that money? She should put it towards college!
Employee #1: She's 13 and a redneck. She ain't goin' to college. Plus, she's fine, so she just needs to find her a good lookin' redneck with lots of money, and she'll be set.

Shreveport, Louisiana

Betty's Developed a Bias for Action

Coworker: It doesn't have to work, we just have to do something!

Manhattan, New York

Manager, training new employees: So… Sexual harassment. Just don't do it.
Dreadlocked newbie: What about dry humping behind the butcher counter?

Escondido, California

Overheard by: This is a health food store…

20-something woman to 50-something coworker: If you didn't want to be so old, you shouldn't have been born so long ago.

Melbourne
Australia

Coworker to another: Don't trust him, he's evil and Singaporean. Double trouble!

Sydney
Australia

Boss on phone: You're not going to die. Canada's not that much.

Chicago, Illinois