Oblivious female boss flipping through magazine: Oooh, pooter! I love pooter.
Startled worker: What?!
Oblivious female boss: Look — pooter letter openers!
Startled worker: Um, that word is actually pronounced ‘pewter.’ [Under his breath] Christ.
6101 O’Connell Avenue
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: TK
Manager: B.O.T.A. It's an anagram. Do you know what it stands for? “Bend over and take it up the ass.”
Employee: That's an acronym, not an anagram.
Manager: What? I didn't say acronym.
Oneonta, New York
Supervisor: You guys are just like my family!
Office peon: Yeah, except we don’t throw your shit in the river.
Academy Street
Newark, Delaware
Overheard by: Dude
Supervisor: Don’t worry, [the new procedure] is not that confusing.
Employee: I’m not confused, I always look like this.
202 C Street
San Diego, California
Overheard by: Emery Ann Harris
Sales guy, about customer: She’s an idiot.
Customer service manager: Awesome!
4755 Walnut Street
Boulder, Colorado
Female boss to male underling, about predicted upcoming snow storm: Tell me how many inches it is and then I'll decide if I have to be afraid of it!
Felton, Delaware
Manager: We really need to work on proper pronunciation on the phones. We really hear a lot of this, and it definitely needs to be improved. For instance: How do you say a-s-k? Anyone? (pause) You say “ask” not “axed”!
Employee: Well, who say dat?
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: office grunt #12
Boss to underling: We got a letter back from the IRS. It's about the faggiest letter you can possibly conceive of. I'm going to read it to you now..
Manhattan, New York
VP to manager: My job is going across the street saying things aren't going very well, and your job is to come to me and tell me things aren't going very well.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: debragail
Co-worker #1: Hey, do we need to dress up when the Japs show up next week?
Boss: Don’t ever refer to them as Japs! That’s racist and very offensive. Please refer to them as Japanese instead.
Co-worker #2: Hey, while we’re being all culturally sensitive and shit, can I show up to work dressed as a ninja to welcome them to America?
115 Perimeter Center Place, NE
Atlanta, Georgia
