Manager: First thing we do is get back control of petty cash.
HR clerk: Isn’t that like closing the barn door after the coke has been snorted?
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Manager: First thing we do is get back control of petty cash.
HR clerk: Isn’t that like closing the barn door after the coke has been snorted?
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Boss: Wow! This adhesive is really on there!
Worker: Yes, adhesive does that.
Boss: No, but it’s really, really stuck on. It’s just like…glue, yeah. Just like glue.
Worker: Adhesive is glue.
Boss: …It is just like glue.
855 Capitolio Way
San Luis Obispo, California
Office worker: Do you know why this code is causing a problem?
Web developer manager: I only know worthless things. I know all the lyrics to “American Pie,” but I can't remember my mother's phone number.
Piscataway, New Jersey
Overheard by: Caroline
Salesman: And then you’re cruising for a bruising.
Sales manager: How old are you?
Salesman: What?
Sales manager: "Cruising for a bruising"? My grandma said that!
Salesman: How about "truckin’ for a fuckin’"?
Sales manager: OK.
111 Oak Street
Bonner Springs, Kansas
Supervisor: I need your traveler in the system by 2.
Employee: Okay, I'll get on that after lunch.
Supervisor: Sounds good. (notices ass pressed up against window) And tell Nick his friend isn't allowed to bring him lunch anymore.
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Nurse: What is the single dose of Kaletra?
Nurse manager: 400 and 100.
Nurse: So 500.
Nurse manager: 400 and 100
Nurse: Right. So 500?
Nurse manager: 400 and 100.
Nurse: So wouldn’t 400 and 100 be 500?
Nurse manager: Well obviously you would get 500; I thought you could just do the math all on your own.
550 North University Blvd
Indianapolis, Indiana
Supervisor: Just do whatever’s easier for you.
Word processor: It’s easiest to do it this way, ’cause then I don’t have to think.
Supervisor: Well, you want to think a little bit…
Word processor: Nah, not really.
1 World Financial Center
New York, New York
Boss on phone: Hi! I just wanted to call and see if you were all sparkly from all that fairy dust I sprinkled on you. You are? That’s so hot!
Underling: I should so not be hearing this.
Camden Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Ren
Boss: There is chocolate over here. Someone brought in chocolate.
Underling: What? What kind? From where?
Boss: It's Perugina, from Italy, my favorite.
Underling: Oh, no thanks. I don't eat anything that ends in -gina.
Baltimore, Maryland
Sales guy: Sooo, how do I get on our intranet again?
His assistant: We put this on your Favorites list, remember? We’ve done this before.
Sales guy: No.. no.. I’m not seeing it.
Assistant: Yes, the very first time I showed you how to log in, I had you add it to your Favorites first.
Sales guy: I don’t know, but I know I’m not seeing it.
Assistant: Hmm, I can’t remember if it was under a subfolder or not.
Sales guy: What are you talking about?
Pause
Assistant: Okay, let’s start from the beginning… Open up your Internet Explorer….
Sales guy: Okay… done…
Assistant: Now click on Favorites….
Sales guy: Oooh. Is it called [Company Inc]-home?
Assistant: Mmm hmm. That would be it.
Cubicle neighbor: Is this the same voice you use to explain things to your daughter?
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
