Co-worker #1: Hey, do we need to dress up when the Japs show up next week?
Boss: Don’t ever refer to them as Japs! That’s racist and very offensive. Please refer to them as Japanese instead.
Co-worker #2: Hey, while we’re being all culturally sensitive and shit, can I show up to work dressed as a ninja to welcome them to America?
115 Perimeter Center Place, NE
Atlanta, Georgia
Coworker on phone: Well, tell her to bend over and hand you some KY.
Cartersville, Georgia
Overheard by: Shocked and Disturbed
Worker #1: I thought you were supposed to be at the doctor.
Worker #2: Look at me! I can’t go in there! He’d put me on something for sure!
4182 Forsyth Road
Macon, Georgia
News guy working on obits: I never thought I'd see the day when we're out of dead people.
Traffic chick, during slow shift: Well, maybe someone will crash and solve both our problems!
Gainesville, Georgia
Office dictator: Folks, I just met with the budget people, and we really need to adhere to our T&A until the end of the year.
Peon: Um, do you mean T&E?
Windward Parkway
Alpharetta, Georgia
Cashier to customer: These are cute bras. I wish I had big boobs. Everyone says I should be happy with what I got, but I think I’d like big ones. [Customer stares silently.] Guys like big ones. Not saying yours are big or anything, but I wish I had your boobs.
2000 Barnett Shoals Road
Athens, Georgia
Accounting: My cat turned off my alarm this morning and made me oversleep.
Receptionist: What?
Accounting: Yeah, normally she sleeps under the covers with me, and I hear her get up and start pacing around to wake me up. But today she must have just gotten up and stepped on my alarm.
Receptionist: Well, she must have known you needed to sleep in.
850 Mount Vernon Highway NE
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: Cat
Director: September used to be a good month, until 9/11, whenever that was.
Atlanta, Georgia
Cubicle rat to another: I'm going to put a five-hour energy in a Red Bull like a Jägerbomb, pour the whole thing over that leftover birthday cake. (pause) And if I don't explode by 5:30, you win.
Georgia
Girl on phone, trying to find job while looking up: Which building are you in? The one with the glass windows?
Atlanta, Georgia