Boss: I need to leave work before I get too drunk!
1819 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia
Boss: I need to leave work before I get too drunk!
1819 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia
Manager #1: I was looking for you.
Manager #2: All right. Well I gotta go to the bathroom so give me a minute.
Manager #1: I do too; I’ll just come with you.
Worker: Hey guys, can I come too?
Manager #2: Sure, everyone can come. Come on everyone, we’re having a pee party!
1700 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Attorney reading medical report: Sue*, is this right?
Sue, the paralegal: Yup. Sure is.
Attorney: But… Why does it say ‘Christina*’ on this set of reports, and ‘Christopher’ on this set?
Sue, patting attorney on back: Read it all the way through, you’ll get it.
Attorney, from rear office five minutes later: Oh, lord… He’s… I mean, she’s… I mean… Sue? Can you come in here, please?
Sue, yelling across the office: Did you see the pictures yet?
Attorney: What?! There are pictures?! Where…? Oh, my good god! Sue!
Law office, Broadway
New York, New York
Manager everyone loathes: It’s okay to talk to me verbally about that…
Tucson, Arizona
Overheard by: Glad I work in another department
Boss: Can we talk for a few minutes?
Colleague: In a minute. I need to finish writing nasty emails to staff who don’t learn.
Boss: We can’t write nasty emails! We have to be encouraging.
Colleague: Dear sir, I’m delighted to be able to tell you that you are a complete idiot…
Australia
Boss: I don’t want you to answer the department phone anymore. Unless I’m on another line, that is.
Drone: OK…sure. Uh, what happened? I mean, did someone complain about me?
Boss: Not yet.
7 Times Square
New York, NY
Manager to office: Homo-erotic staring contest starts… Now!
Val Vista Drive
Gilbert, Arizona
CEO: I need you to call Dan*.
VP: Why?
CEO: I need you to distract him while I steal his pretzels. I need those pretzels.
Broomfield, Colorado
Overheard by: Cubeville denizen
Sales guy slamming down phone: Fucking bitch.
Boss: Tell me you didn’t just slam the phone down on our biggest billing client.
Sales guy: What? She couldn’t hear that.
Boss: What the fuck are you talking about?! I get the phone slammed down on me all the time — I fucking hear it.
Sales guy: Yeah, I guess maybe she could hear it.
Boss, picking up phone: Call me.
Sales guy, getting very nervous: No, it’s okay. I’m sorry.
Boss: Fucking call me. I said call me! Fucking do it now! [Sales guy calls. Boss starts slamming his receiver against his desk screaming] Can you fucking hear that?! Huh?! Can you fucking hear it, bitch?!
Sales guy: I hear it, boss, I hear it. Please, please stop.
Cleveland Street
Valley Stream, New York
Overheard by: amused coworker
Managing director handing envelope to secretary: Do you have a wet thing?
17 State Street
New York, New York
