Worker: Bower birds are cool — they’ve got it going on. Cassowaries are cool, too. They can eat a dog.
Leederville
Perth
Western Australia
Overheard by: Going on holidays
Worker: Bower birds are cool — they’ve got it going on. Cassowaries are cool, too. They can eat a dog.
Leederville
Perth
Western Australia
Overheard by: Going on holidays
Office chick #1: But why does she do that?
Office chick #2: It doesn’t matter — her boyfriend is so gay!
Melbourne
Australia
Receptionist shouting down hallway: Stop talking about me, Cindy*! I can hear you talking about me!
Cindy: [Keeps talking.]Receptionist: [Rings Cindy.]Cindy: Hello?
Receptionist: Stop talking about me — I can hear you talking about me!
Cindy: Who is this?
Douglas Street
Milton
Australia
Overheard by: Supaflyrocksta
Phone monkey to supervisor getting beer out of bag: So, can I drink this at my desk or do I have to go outside?
Government Call Centre
Canberra
Australia
Secretary squeaking loudly, about coworker's hedge: Wow! I love your bush, it's so pretty!
Perth
Australia
Overheard by: Michael
Co-worker on phone: Hi [Victor], I was just calling about the new nano covers. They are priced the same and everything but one comes with a little white strap and the other comes with a big black one…So it’s just the customer’s choice whether they want a big black one or a little white one?
432 St. Kilda Road
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Overheard by: Data Monkey
Co-worker: There were so many Jews in the concentration camps. Why didn’t some of them join together and try and fight the Nazis?
195 Turbot Street
Brisbane, Queensland
Australia
Manager: What does the word “nugatory” mean?
Employee: I don’t know but it sounds important.
Manager: I’ll see if I can slip it into my next talk to staff, they won’t know the difference.
North Terrace
Adelaide, South Australia
Bimbette: Hey, remember the time we broke the toilet?
Blonde: Yeah, stuff like that happens to us.
Bimbette: I wonder what will happen to us next…
Blonde: Let’s have a threesome with someone famous!
Bimbette: With who?
Blonde: A Beatle… John Lennon?
Bimbette: Duh, he’s in America!
Blonde: Duh, he’s dead!
Bimbette: Yeah, but he’s still in America.
St. Kilda Road
Melbourne, Australia
Overheard by: Same Cubicle, Different Pair
