No Won­der the Postal Ser­vice Is Go­ing Broke

De­sign­er: Any cat la­dy with a stick­er-print­ing ma­chine… can make stamps.

Man­hat­tan, New York

A Bet­ter Ques­tion Is Why They Smell This Way

Em­ploy­ee: Why do you have rub­ber gloves?
Pho­tog­ra­ph­er: Don’t wor­ry about that.

New­port Beach, Cal­i­for­nia

Over­heard by: Not sur­prised

I’ve Even Learned How to Make It Shoot Con­fet­ti

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er: He said your box is bor­ing.
Graph­ics de­sign­er: He said my box is what?
Web­mas­ter: You have a bor­ing box?
Graph­ics de­sign­er: I’ve nev­er had com­plaints be­fore.

Sen­su­al Prod­ucts Of­fice
Las Ve­gas, Neva­da

Over­heard by: sen­su­al prod­ucts copy­writer

Well, Par­don Me While I Pres­tidig­i­tate Your Com­ple­men­tary Ana­phy­lax­is

Ac­count man­ag­er: You did a fan­tas­tic job on these busi­ness cards!
Art di­rec­tor: Shut up! Don’t con­dense me.
Ac­count man­ag­er: I’m se­ri­ous! You’re a cu­ria­tive ge­nius!

214 West 39th Street
New York, New York

Over­heard by: Trey Givens

Is Feb­ru­ary the One with On­ly Ten?

Ju­nior art di­rec­tor: Hey, what month is eleven?

Chica­go, Illi­nois

That Was Mas­ter­Be­ta Test­ing

De­vel­op­er #1: We’ve nev­er run the ap­pli­ca­tion in a clus­tered en­vi­ron­ment.
De­vel­op­er #2: Yeah, but we’ve run it in a clus­ter-fucked en­vi­ron­ment.

Canal Park
Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts

3PM Smoke Break

Ad De­sign #1: I’m hav­ing trou­ble of sleep­ing and was think­ing of get­ting Am­bi­en.
Ad De­sign #2: You’re too young to take sleep­ing pills. Have you tried crack?

151 West 34th Street
New York, NY

Over­heard by: Sarah

Bar­bie Strikes Again!

Web de­sign­er: I need you to print out 65 of those Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tions I cre­at­ed.
Graph­ic de­sign­er: How many?
Web de­sign­er: 65.
Graph­ic de­sign­er: Okay. Let me write this down. I’m not good at math.

Las Ve­gas, Neva­da

Over­heard by: Looks Like Di­va

Could You Make Up Your Mind?

De­sign­ers talk­ing about an ad: I’d throw a white girl in there, for shits and gig­gles.

Mid­town
New York City, New York

5PM That’s a Wrap

Di­rec­tor #1: Hey, why are you pack­ing up? Is your of­fice mov­ing to­mor­row?
Di­rec­tor #2: Uh, no. I just got fired.
Di­rec­tor #1: Oh, wow. There’s re­al­ly just not a way for this not to be awk­ward is there?

7201 Metro Boule­vard
Min­neapo­lis, Min­neso­ta