Bosses and Underlings

Group Manager: Just to let you know, your boss went to go get his AIDS shot for his travel to India.
Co-worker: What I don’t understand is, why don’t we all get the AIDS shot?
Group Manager: Um, that was a joke.

440 9th Avenue
New York, NY

Overheard by: John Leffler

Boss to office: It's like being on Wheel of Fortune without having to buy a vowel.

Chicago, Illinois

Male boss: I want you to know that was awesomely wicked!
Female worker, just exiting ladies’ room: You can hear what people do in there?
Male boss: No! No… I meant, that e-mail you sent last week.

Kitchener, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Notdaboss

Team leader: Tomorrow we're having sexual harassment training. (laughs) Jane, you can't touch Sophie.
Male coworker: They can touch me!

Melbourne, Florida

Boss: Do you know where the gigabytes are? I need some more for my computer.
Employee #1: What are you talking about?
Boss: Are they in the closet?

He goes looking in the closet for about five minutes.

Boss: Seriously, do you know where more gigabytes are?
Employee #2: Maybe they’re in your pants.

N59W14909 Bobolink Avenue
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Overheard by: LeeAnn Michaud

Boss: This project is pretty ugly, so I’m giving it to you.
Employee: Aw, I didn’t get you anything.

60 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Underling: These people were home users. We also have data for work users, but they shouldn’t be double-counted in the combined numbers.
Boss: I am definitely going to Taco Bell tonight.

10 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY

Overheard by: pixelvisions

Secretary: What are they here for?
Boss: They are here to remove my organ.
Secretary: … What?

Fort Street
Lincoln Park, Michigan

Boss: All of these folders need to be filed right away, but I can’t trust the desk guys to do it.

Tutor #1: Isn’t that their job?

Boss: Yes, but they need to be filed alphabetically, and they can’t do that.

Tutor #1: They can’t file alphabetically?

Boss: Apparently not. [Tutor #2] spent two hours yesterday trying to put everything back in order.

Tutor #2, breaking into laughter: Is that what you thought I was doing? Shit!

Boss: What were you doing, then?

Tutor #2: I dropped my ring in the drawer, and I had to take out all the folders to find it! It took forever, too.

Boss: Did you at least put them back alphabetically when you were done?

Tutor $2: Are you on crack? That’s the desk guy’s job!

101 Braddock Road
Frostburg, Maryland

Overheard by: Ren

Broker to real estate agent in training: When you’re doing an open house you have to talk to everybody, no matter how poor they look. You know, no matter how black they are… if you’re racist.

Huntington, New York