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
Archive for the ‘Designers and Photographers’ Category
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
It’s Either That or Get One of Those Helper Monkeys
Editor #1: I have finger toes.
Photographer: You mean like long and bony?
Editor #1: Yeah, I can, like, pick stuff up with them.
Editor #2: Do you pinch people with them?
Editor #1: Yeah. I always pinch [my wife]. She hates it.
Editor #2: God is just preparing you for when you lose your arms.
333 North Meridian
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: fransen comes alive
Sorry, the Clown Suit Keeps Throwing Me Off
Lead animator: Quit goofing off!
Animator: I’m not.
Lead animator: I said no goofing off! Get to work!
Animator: I am working.
Lead animator, hitting animator with poster: No talking! Get to work!
Animator: I am working!
Lead animator: [Picks up computer mouse, and throws it across the desk.] Get to work! No talking!
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Overheard by: pretty picture guy
Not Like When We Swam with the Sharks
Sub-editor: Hi, Ed*!
Designer: Hi, Jack*! I’ll try not to cut myself when you’re talking to me this time.
Australia
