CSR: May I have your name, please?
Customer: It's “Kathy.”
CSR: Just to verify, that's “k” for Kansas, “a” for apple, “t” for Tom, “h” for Harry, and “y” for, ummm…uhh…Wyoming?
Customer: Correct.
Quezon City
Philippines
CSR: May I have your name, please?
Customer: It's “Kathy.”
CSR: Just to verify, that's “k” for Kansas, “a” for apple, “t” for Tom, “h” for Harry, and “y” for, ummm…uhh…Wyoming?
Customer: Correct.
Quezon City
Philippines
Office girl, popping head into cubicle: Hi Jane*!
Jane: Ahhhhhhh! (frightened, ear-piercing scream that goes on for 20 seconds)
Office girl: Sh! Shh! It's me!
Jane: (carries on screaming)
Ad Agency
Singapore
Overheard by: eM
(at a three day workshop)
Suit #1: I don’t think I can sit through another afternoon of this.
Suit #2: It’s not as bad as yesterday. I’m finding it quite interesting.
Suit #1: That’s what you call Stockholm Syndrome, when you start to love your kidnapper.
Istanbul
Turkey
Coworker #1 (talking about the newly designed official computer desktop wallpapers): I don’t like the word “zero” in the wallpaper. It’s like such a negative number!
Coworker #2: It’s not negative if it’s used in a positive way.
Shubhada Building
Mumbai
India
Overheard by: M
Tech support: May I have your name, ma’am?
Customer: Erin Quincey*.
Tech support: And how do you spell that?
Customer: Q, as in ‘cute’…
6615 Ayala Avenue
Makati City
Philippines
Accountant: The boss is charging all his personal expenses to the firm. We'll have to use a little creative camouflaging to make them look like office expenses.
Trainee: How do we show his father's funeral coffin?
Accountant: Packaging & forwarding?
Garden Square
Panjim
India
Overheard by: Paige Turner
Office peon #1: He has a tendency not to sleep when he's at work.
Office peon #2: That's good, that's good. Should we invite him for tonight?
Office peon #1: Nah.
Manila
Philippines
Overheard by: Kaye
Dude #1, at urinal: Shouldn’t we have two different organs for peeing and reproducing?
Dude #2: Submit a design change request to god.
Bangalore
India
Consultant: I know the solution to this problem…only it won’t work.
IBM Golden Towers
Bangalore, India
