Customer: Why is your store so big?
Salesgirl: [Silence.]Customer: I’m an accountant — I notice these things.
Chocolate store
North Plainfield, New Jersey
Overheard by: Other Salesgirl
Archive for the ‘Financial Folk’ Category
10AM File Referral
Banker #1: How do you file an old CD referral?
Banker #2: Well you submit it and cancel it and submit it and cancel it and repeat that 5 times, and then wash your hands…Oh, I thought you said OCD referral. Like obsessive-compul–
Banker #1: I get it.
1241 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Teddy
12PM Lunch
Accountant: This chicken [Sue] brought in is yummy. I’m just going to take a break to eat it here rather than take it back to my desk. I don’t trust myself not to get my paperwork all greasy.
Supervisor: That’s why I’m going to make a sandwich out of it.
Secretary: Oh, I don’t care about greasy fingers. All I do is handle incoming checks all day.
401 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee
Though I Did Think “Smokey” Was an Unusual Name
Loud finance lady on the phone: Oh, so you’re a bear? I never would have guessed.
Stratford, Connecticut
That’s Great, Blanche
Auditor: I am a man! I have chest hair!
46th St & 3rd Ave
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Auditor #2
Just Like You Asked Me to Leave Early Today
Account manager: This report is missing data. Why aren’t February 1st and 2nd included?
Analyst: Because I asked you yesterday if you wanted me to include them, and you told me not to.
Account manager (surprised): Oh. I did? Oh. Okay. It’s great, then. Thanks.
New York City, New York
How You Know Your Coworker Is Straight
Employee: Did you see the Accounting Department? They are all dressed up like the Village People… or the Seven Dwarfs — I’m not sure.
100 Mountain Road
Framingham, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Snow Whitefish
I Prefer to Call Myself a “Money Magician”
Accountant: So it’s an EFT, whatever that stands for.
CSR: “Electronic funds transfer.” Wait… Aren’t you an accountant!?
Newmarket
Ontario
Canadia
4PM Talk to HR
Assistant: I submitted this check request a month ago, can you tell me why it hasn’t been paid yet?
Accountant: Oh, you wanted it paid?
40 W. 20th Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: Faith Black
3PM More Resumes
Finance: There must be something in between “tax accountant” and
“undercover narc.”
156 W. 56th Street
New York, NY
