Spikey-haired waiter: I’ll be right back with your check.
Cranky old man: I hope all his hair falls out!
Wife: Calm down!
Cranky old man: It’s a fad!
(spikey-haired waiter brings check)
Cranky old man: Oh! Mints!
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Archive for the ‘Anger management’ Category
…Well, I Don’t Mean It in a Sexually Harassing Way, Sir…
Trainee: This customer is mad because we won’t cover an accident that happened before he was insured with us. He won’t stop yelling!
Trainer: Ha! He’s gonna have to suck eggs on that one! Sucks for him. But seriously, go through the facts and dates with him and explain why we won’t cover it. Stay calm and apologize. You can do this!
Trainee, to customer: Thank you for holding. This… uh… Okay. My manager says you have to suck eggs, I’m sorry.
Riverview Parkway, San Diego
The Only Satisfaction Available to Telemarketers
CSR on phone: Please sir, stop yelling at me. (pause) You do not need to swear at me. (pause) You call me that one more time and I’m going to hang up. (pause) Yeah, I’m still here. (pause, then hangs up) The best part was he told me to die.
Phildelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: headsethottie
Heaven Only Knows What May Have Been Scratched
Cube dweller: You sonofabitch, you’re getting a goddamn manicure! If you don’t, I’m going to rip your goddamn nails off, because you don’t deserve them!
Office, Soho
New York, New York
Overheard by: Nervous Co-worker
…O Most Despicable Of Human Creatures?
Employee stocking makeup shelves to another: Yeah… They come here and ask me something and I’m like “that’s in groceries,” and they say, “well, where are groceries?” and that’s why I just hate customers. (notices customer, who has been standing there the entire time) Oh, hi! Can I help you with anything?
Conley Drive
Columbia, Missouri
Career Tip: Don’t Speak Unless You Know What You’re Talking About
Office genius: I don’t always know what I’m talking about. I often don’t know what I’m talking about. But it pisses me off when I do know what I’m talking about and people don’t believe me.
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Janeane Garofalo.
Coworker: On a scale of one to Chris Brown, how angry are you?
Houston, Texas
Dude!
Drone #1: Every time Tina* leaves her office, I pop in there and rat out a fart.
Drone #2: Dude!
Drone #1: When she made me work the weekend, I pissed in all her plants and wiped my ass on her mouse pad.
Circle Center Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Everyone Knows Encyclopedias Are Just Speculation!
Coworker #1, reading article: ‘Morphine is highly addictive…‘
Coworker #2: Morphine is not addictive.
Coworker #1: But it says right here in this encyclopedia article–
Coworker #2: –Morphine is not addictive.
All other coworkers: It says right here!
Coworker #2: Morphine is not addictive! I know this for a fact!
Lunch break
Edmonton, Alberta
Canadia
It’s Painted on the Wall
Sales rep: No, we cannot move the piano on the ship… The piano cannot be moved… No, we cannot move it to another room… The piano cannot be moved… What do you not understand? We cannot move the piano!
Chelsea Piers, Pier 6
New York
