Bosses and Underlings

Worker: [Jeff] didn’t come in because he has pneumonia. We went to the hospital yesterday.
Manager: Ever since you and [Jeff] started dating he’s begun falling apart. Now he’s got pneumonia. That’s what drugs will do to you; lower your immune system.
Worker: That couldn’t have been it…It’s been 2 weeks since we’ve taken ecstacy.

7350 S. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, Florida

Manager: Can you gather up the other guys? We have to move a bunch of stuff.
Employee: Fuck you.
Manager: What did you just say to me?
Employee: Fuck you, asshole.
Manager: Are you nuts?
Employee: Fuck you, bitch.
Manager: You’re fired. Get out of here.
Employee: I wasn’t clocked in. You can’t fire me.
Manager walks to computer, clocks him in, says, ‘You’re fired,’ and then clocks him out.
Employee: That’s so unfair.

Circle Centre Mall

Overheard by: Shatmandu

Intern: They didn’t have Guinness, so we had pure Jameson and Bailey shots.
Manager: Oh, well.
Intern: Laced with something else.
Associate: PCP?
Intern: Who knows?
Manager: Could it have been PCP?
Intern: It tasted awfully sweet.

10 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY

Overheard by: pixelvisions

Office peon: How many wheels does an 18-wheeler have?
Boss: Let me see your résumé again.

1212 Klockner Road
Gordonsville, Virginia

Overheard by: the office linebacker

Supervisor: Did you find that part?
Coworker: No.
Supervisor: Well, where is it?

Flagstaff, Arizona

Overheard by: Jimmy

Young office worker: I need some Catholic classes or something. I get all confused about the Bible characters and Jesus.
Manager: Why not go to church? Or maybe when you go to college, they’ll have a Bible study. Lots of kids do that.
Young office worker: I need something before then. I need Jesus for Dummies so I can catch up!

365 West Passaic Street
Rochelle Park, New Jersey

Overheard by: the cubicle right outside

Boss: Don’t do that. Make Suzanne* do that.
Assistant: Why?
Boss: Because Suzanne is a cunt and we hate her.
Assistant: I like her. Erin* likes her.
Boss: We don’t really like you two, either.

Goshen Turnpike
Bloomingburg, New York

Overheard by: Veronica at http://everythingisused.blogspot.com/

Manager: Ow, shit shit fuck shit.
Peon: What’s wrong?
Manager: I accidentally ironed my arm this morning, and now it hurts every time I touch anything with it.

1180 Jefferson Road
Rochester, New York

Overheard by: Cube Farm Worker #5823457

Office manager: The first rule of thumb is that two geotechnical engineers will always give you two different answers. The second rule of thumb is that I’m always right.
Interns: Hahahahahahahahah

Pause

Office manager: I’m being serious.

1066 West Hastings
Vancouver, Canadia

Overheard by: Andrew

Senior research analyst in the elevator: Someone’s all cologned up in here.
Team leader: I think most of us are. We’re a good smelling team.

4833 Rugby Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland