Boss: Hey, are you good at org charts? Can you make me one?
Employee: I'm not a confectionist, but I can futz around and make you one.
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Lookforthewoman
Boss: Hey, are you good at org charts? Can you make me one?
Employee: I'm not a confectionist, but I can futz around and make you one.
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Lookforthewoman
Manager: If we are going to appeal to the youth market, we are going to have to euthanize our marketing materials.
Associate: That means to kill people.
Manager: Whatever.
350 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Underling: How big is yours?
Team lead: I don’t know, let’s see.
(pause)
Team lead: Man, that’s big!
Underling: If you think that’s big, that makes mine huge.
Team lead: Really? Let’s see it.
Underling: Okay.
(pause)
Team lead: Wow. You weren’t kidding.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Overheard by: Jonathan
Sales guy, entering a meeting: Sorry I’m late…
Director of marketing: You brought doughnuts? Coffee?
Sales guy: No.
Director of marketing: Then you’re dead to us. Get out.
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Co-worker: Oh, you know how he is… Yeah, that’s a great word to describe him: wanker.
Madison, Connecticut
Graphics guy: What format are these files?
Boss: They’re from the guy next door.
Graphics guy: Okay, but what kind of files are these supposed to be? There’s no extensions so I can’t open them in anything unless I rename them all and just guess the extension until I get it right.
Boss: Can you open them and check?
2245 Royal Windsor Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Bob
Manager: You can FedEx it to him at the University of Albuquerque.
Coworker: You aren't going to drive it to him?
Manager: Drive from Mass. to New Mexico? No, I don't think so.
Coworker: New Mexico? Wow, is that near the old Mexico?
Waltham, Massachusetts
Overworked peon: I told Julia to take a box cutter to your jugular if she saw you come in.
Boss: That's not nice!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Soapnana
Boss: Notice anything different about your blazer today?
Employee: No.
Boss: Well, I sewed it for you.
Employee: What? When?
Boss: Oh, a month or two ago, when you were out of the office for the day. You left it here, so I took it and sewed it.
Employee: Um, thanks.
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Manager: My new BM is awesome!
Subordinate: You mean BMW; the W is important.
Manager: Why?
Raynham, Massachusetts
