Bosses and Underlings

Employee: Are you yanking my chain?
Boss: Oh, you’ll feel it when I’m yanking your chain.

111 E Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Hear No Evil

Assistant: I heard you told someone in the office that we're all on medication here. I take offense to that. I'm not on medication.
Boss: You should be. It gets you through the day so much easier.

Connecticut

Boss: We’re trying to fit a round square into a peg hole.

53 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Mark

Sarge: Is Posh gonna be there?
Office peon: Yeah!
Sarge: Sporty?
Office peon: Yeah!
Sarge: Spunky?
Office peon: That’s not a Spice Girl!

Newark, Delaware

Overheard by: Shaye

Preacher: What’s that beeping sound?
Secretary: It’s the battery getting low on the smoke detector.
Preacher: Well you don’t need that if you would quit smoking, do
you?

801 7th Street South
Clanton, Alabama

Boss to employee: Lepers don't change their spots.

Sacramento, California

Overheard by: Chad

Manager: Do you have any pasties?
Office girl: What?
Manager: Pasties. You know, to write a note on.
Office girl: You mean a Post-it? Pasties are what strippers wear over their nipples.
Manager: God bless strippers.

Costa Mesa, California

Office lady: Whatever happened with your belly button?
Boss: Oh, it still hasn't healed. You wanna see?
Office lady: Ew! No!

Washington, DC

Overheard by: CreativeBunny

RVP: Hey, I thought you were out sick today.
Sales manager: Nope, I was just tired.
RVP: [peeved] Nice.
Sales manager: Hey, you brought me here for my brutal honesty.

8833 W. Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, California

Secretary: Hey, I haven’t seen you for a while. You been on vacation?
Associate: No, I’ve been here.
Secretary: I just love running into you. You look just like that guy from Whose Line Is It Anyway. That black guy…What’s his name?
Associate: Oh, really? No one’s ever told me that before.
Secretary: It’s ok, right? Because he’s my favorite.

1425 K Street NW
Washington DC

Overheard by: callmeahab