3PM Rachel’s Birthday Thing

Boss: Those cupcakes are delicious. What a sugar rush!
Intern: I broke out in hives.
Boss: In hives?
Intern: A rash. My skin is very sensitive.
Boss: To sugar?
Intern: Yup.
Boss: That’s amazing.
Intern: When I was a kid I got sick and I had to have, like, ten X-rays a day. Literally, five X-rays a day. And I think that messed up my photons.
Boss: Your photons?
Intern: Yeah, that’s how X-rays work, you know? They reverse your photons. That’s how they get the image.
Boss: Oh.
Intern: That’s why my skin is so sensitive, because they messed up the photons. They won’t admit it, because they don’t want me to sue them. But I know what’s up.

10 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY

Overheard by: pixelvisions

Posted on September 5, 2023
Bosses and Underlings, General Idiocy, Health & Hygiene, Interns & Temps, Meals and Snacks, New York

9AM Darkest Before the Dawn

Boss: We will be taken off the internet. It is slowing down productivity.

5 minutes pass.

Worker #1: …What will I do all day?
Worker #2: Work.
Worker #1: Ha, ha! Whatever.

3275 Steinway Street
Astoria, New York

Posted on September 3, 2023
Bosses and Underlings, Coworkers, General Idiocy, New York, Questions, Technology, Time Management

5PM I’m Leaving, Too

Boss #1: You’re taking off for your wedding; when will you be back?
Co-worker: Two weeks.
Boss #2: Yes, and when she gets back, she’ll no longer be a virgin.

609 Reliability Circle
Knoxville, Tennessee

Overheard by: Arthur Vandelay

Posted on September 2, 2023
Bosses and Underlings, Possible Sexual Harassment, Tennessee

5PM I’m Done Working Anything Today

VP: God! They’ve got you working reception? We must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

5203 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, Virginia

Posted on August 28, 2023
Bosses and Underlings, Insults, Virginia

11AM Schedule Conference Room for Next Week

Worker Bee: How many people do we have signed up so far?
Middle Manager: So far as have 35 RSTDs.
Worker Bee: Hmm, we should really stock up on more antibiotics.

1155 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: eazy_e

Posted on August 22, 2023
Bosses and Underlings, General Idiocy, Health & Hygiene, Illinois, Questions

3PM Coffee Break

Boss: Your brother is Wiccan?
Drone: Yes.
Boss: So he does magic?
Drone: He likes to think so.
Boss: And he’s not Christian?
Drone: …No.
Boss: So he can do whatever he wants? Like kill someone?
Drone: …No, he still has to abide by the laws of the land.

557 Church Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia