Telemarketing instructor #1, analyzing recorded call: Does heavy breathing count as “filler language”?
Telemarketing instructor #2: Not at this call center.
Boston, Massachusetts
Telemarketing instructor #1, analyzing recorded call: Does heavy breathing count as “filler language”?
Telemarketing instructor #2: Not at this call center.
Boston, Massachusetts
Boss: You’ll be happy to know that we asked accounting to open up a billing code for “unstrategic planning.”
5340 Alla Road
Los Angeles, California
Waiter to other servers: Okay, just so everyone knows, there’s a Sasquatch loose somewhere in the bathroom.
Chicago, Illinois
Office manager, heating up lunch: “Just add water and microwave for four minutes.” No, that has too many directions.
Detroit, Michigan
Overheard by: Confused
Account manager, yelling across the hall: He needs you to bring more photo paper, and black ink.
PR exec, yelling back: A black cape?
Account manager: No, ink!
PR exec: A cape?
Account manager: He wants ink!
PR exec: Why does he want a cape?
London
Canadia
Co-worker #1: Can I use the abbreviation RNA?
Co-worker #2: You mean, like the stuff in your blood?
Co-worker #3: What’s the abbreviation for “the customer’s a jerk”?
962 Coronado Boulevard
Universal City, Texas
I‑banker: Why can’t we just donate money to hire people to do this work?
2615 W. 84th Place
Chicago, Illinois
Lady peon: Oh my god, last night I saw the most confusingest movie ever.
Barnie’s Coffee and Tea
Jupiter, Florida
Overheard by: Bored Coffee Girl
Art teacher, looking at another eating Pringles: Pringles are the perfect chip, based on the texture, shape, and lines. They fit perfectly in your mouth.
History teacher: I don’t know. If you asked me, I’d just prefer a Lay.
Teacher’s Lounge
Marvell, Arkansas
Overheard by: They Let Me Teach Children
Employee: Don’t interrupt me now, interrupt me when I am finished!
1200 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama
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