The Wrong Sort of Angel

Radio: ‘So if your life has been touched by alcohol or substance abuse…’
Construction guy: That’s me!

125th Street and Lenox Avenue
New York, New York

Posted on July 8, 2015
Blue Collar, Coworkers, New York, Substance Use & Abuse

12PM Asian Discrimination League Meeting

FedEx Driver: Gs prices are so expensive I am thinking about delivering packages on a bike.
Warehouse employee: You and your people should be used to that.

4000 Coolidge Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland

Posted on July 5, 2015
Blue Collar, Employees, General Idiocy, Gripes, Maryland, Money

Pope Cliff XVI

Coworker: Wait…John Ratzenberger?

430 Main Avenue
Norwalk, Connecticut

Maintenance guy: They shoulda had a Puerto Rican pope. Barbecue every weekend!

335 East 45th Street
New York, NY

Overheard by: Palaverist

Posted on June 27, 2015
Blue Collar, Coworkers, Geography & History, Meals and Snacks, New York, Religion, Words

Like Congress

Head maintenance guy: I tend to break stuff before I fix it. Then I fix it.

Malvern, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Wish I had that kind of job security…

Posted on June 25, 2015
Blue Collar, Pennsylvania, Technology, Weirdness

With Nuts, Actually

Barista: Would you like this brownie heated up?
Brownie man: I like my brownies like I like my women.
Barista: Dark and covered in chocolate?

Coffee shop
Cincinnati, Ohio

Overheard by: agrees with him

Posted on June 25, 2015
Blue Collar, Comebacks, Compare and contrast, Customers, Default, Meals and Snacks, Ohio, Questions

Personally, I Love That About It.

Maintenance dude: Is it okay if I borrow your post trolley for a second?
Cubicle girl: Sure, if you don't mind how gay it is.

Cambridge
England

Posted on June 18, 2015
Blue Collar, Employees, England, Offers and requests, Weirdness

Carmen Miranda's Descendents Have Always Faced Discrimination

Maintenance grunt: I can't take you seriously with that hat.
Maintenance monkey: This hat? This hat's the shit, man. It was my grandma's.

Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Posted on June 16, 2015
Blue Collar, Clothes, Family, Pennsylvania, Weirdness

British Bureaucracy Conquered the World and Returned It In Response to Written Requests

Peon #1: Alison just asked me how we get a washing-up brush for the kitchen.
Peon #2: I have put a request through CAFM, so hopefully they will order one for us.
Peon #1: Can you order a little holder for it, too?
Peon #2: Hmmmm, I will put a request in and see what facilities say.
Peon #1: Thanks!
Peon #2: Sorry, but what will the brush be used for?

Reading
Berkshire
England