Manager: Come here, I've got a job for you.
Employee: I've got a job for you, too. (pause) And bring some chapstick, I don't like the lips to chafe.
Carrboro, North Carolina
Overheard by: Pizza girl
Manager: Come here, I've got a job for you.
Employee: I've got a job for you, too. (pause) And bring some chapstick, I don't like the lips to chafe.
Carrboro, North Carolina
Overheard by: Pizza girl
Male coworker #1: Well, we played with it enough, it's not hanging out as much.
Male supervisor: Yeah, if you beat on it enough, eventually these things go in.
(uncomfortable silence)
Male supervisor: Do you think I could go see it?
Male coworker #2: Yeah, just make sure you don't pull on it!
Richland, Washington
Overheard by: I think they were talking about a server…
Supervisor: Hey, we’re all here today… Let’s have a meeting!
Employee #1: About what?
Employee #2: American Idol!
Financial center
New York, New York
Overheard by: working hard
Secretary to boss: What? The legal department is corporate?
Manhattan, New York
Young, blonde female: Um, wow, I just cracked my spine and grew, like, an inch.
Male supervisor: Yeah, I just grew, like, an inch watching you.
3rd Street and Colorado Street
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: Miss Informed
Boss: You're out smoking again? I thought you were quitting?
Assistant: I start taking the Chantix tomorrow morning, smoke for a week and throw the cigarettes away and double the dose.
Boss: Okay, can I give you shit for it?
Assistant: All you want, I'll be a complete bitch and make your life hell.
Boss on intercom: Everyone, you have the next 2 months off: assistant is going to be a bigger bitch than usual.
Fountain Valley, California
Assistant: This Rubik’s cube is a little harder than this one.
Manager: Actually they’re the same, one’s just smaller.
Assistant: Yeah, but this one’s harder to solve…
Manager: No, I mean mathematically it’s exactly the same.
2301 M Street, NW
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Tobias
Employee: Do you think I can leave my machete on display? I moved my plants and posters.
Supervisor: Machete, cool. Bayonet, not cool. I already asked HR.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Overheard by: I Think I’ll Request A Different Cubicle
Boss to underling: Who was President after Lincoln?
Underling: Wasn't Carter after Lincoln?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: About a 100 years after
Boss: I’m trying to figure out how to explain this in terms that you can understand.
Jane*: I think I get what you’re trying to say.
Male peon #1: I think I also understand what you’re trying to say.
Male peon #2: Me, too.
Boss: Let me put it this way: let’s all imagine that Jane is at the OB/GYN…
Response Road
Sacramento, California
