Archive for the ‘Financial Folk’ Category

Whose Idea Were Tobacco Pacifiers, Anyway?

Products VP: Everyone who makes this crap is just as fucked as we are.
Finance VP: If only no one put this in their mouths…

Elmsford, New York

Overheard by: Bored Beyond Belief

Probably for Historical Reasons

Assistant: They’ve already designed the corn maze for a Lewis & Clark theme.
Account executive: Why did they choose Superman?
Assistant: [Stumped silence.]

Thomas Street
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Pants

We’re All Scared Of the X‑File

Finance clerk: Every time she comes in here, he grabs it and pulls it out, and she runs away.

Vienna, Virginia

Overheard by: Receptionitis

Happens to Every Guy at Some Point

Lowly finance clerk to director: What’d you lose?
Director: The eyeball from my carrot.

Nunavut
Canada

Overheard by: Finance Officer #3

Your Editors Were Shock‑G-ed to See How Long Ago That Was

Business analyst on phone: Hey, what do you need? The name of the user guide? It’s the digital one… No, the digital guide. You know, like Digital Underground, only without Tupac… No, biggie wasn’t in Digital Underground… Humpty Hump was… No, the guy with the gold nose… Okay, it’s “h”… “u”… “m”…

Chantilly, Virginia

Overheard by: CubeRat

1PM Refueling

Power broker #1: Two large cappuccinos.
Cashier: Thank you. That will be $4.50.
Power broker #1: Where’s the cinnamon?
Cashier: I’m sorry, we’re out of cinnamon.
Power broker #1: Then I don’t want it!
Cashier: Excuse me?
Power broker #2: Okay, let’s just bring it back to the office.
Power broker #1: No! Just give me my money back. I can’t drink the foamy milk without the cinnamon.

100 Broadway
New York, New York

Overheard by: Mark

3PM Customer Service

Bank teller: I was working drive-through this morning and offered a customer a bone for her dog in the back seat.
Associate: I think it’s nice that we do that.
Bank teller: The customer said it wasn’t a dog, it was her mother.

801 West Big Beaver Road
Troy, Michigan