Cubicle #1: Since I have to travel through Virginia next week, I’m going to take Amy*‘s suggestion and get a mega millions ticket. The powerball isn’t working out so well for me.
Cubicle #2: My husband laughs at me because I want to keep working if I win the lottery.
Cubicle #3: What!?
Cubicle #2: Yeah, I want to keep working.
Cubicle #3: Well…
Cubicle #1 & #3, in unison: I wouldn’t work here.
England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tech guy: Did you hear about all the snow in New York?
Help desk chick: Yeah, wow! That means it’ll be heading here to California.
Tech guy: (silence).
Imperial Highway Brea
California
Cube rat #1: Hey Chris, go install this on Ben’s computer.
Cube rat #2: (lets out audible fart)
Cube rat #1: Never mind.
Cube rat #2: Hey, I’m only getting two bars for my laptop’s Wi-Fi connection.
Cube rat #3: It’s because that damn fart cloud is out blocking the signal!
Columbia, South Carolina
Overheard by: Cube Rat Holding Nose
Loud American coworker in next cubicle: Are you a mammal?
University Research Centre
Sydney
Australia
(sound of whip cracking)
Next cubicle coworker: Ahh, my eye!
Mission Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Ian
Vietnamese coworker using cardboard to fix cubicle, happily: It’s like being in refugee camp all over again.
Austin, Texas
Cube dweller: I know he was yelling at me, but he was wearing the same members-only jacket as Rosario from Will and Grace!
523 North Sam Houston Parkway East
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: bemused
Cube dweller #1: There’s one bagel left.
Cube dweller #2: I think that’s the one that was on the floor.
Cube dweller #3: No, I ate that one.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Guy a few cubicles down: No mom, I’m not looking at porn.
Los Angeles, California
Woman in cubicle to peon: Did you see me do the donkey face?
Malden, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Better than a punch
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist
