Boss: Sue, I need you.
Sure: Aw, boss, I need you too.
Alpharetta, Georgia
Boss: Sue, I need you.
Sure: Aw, boss, I need you too.
Alpharetta, Georgia
Boss: Where have you been the past week?
Agent: I went fishing with friends.
Boss: Why?
Agent: I love fishing with friends, and I took a vacation.
Boss: Listen, I love fucking and drinking, but you don't see me taking a week off to do that.
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Nicole
Store manager to employee: Can you tighten your ballbag, please? I want all ballbags to be tight.
(customers start giggling and laughing)
Store manager: Come on, guys, we're in a sports store–the word “ballbag” isn't funny here!
Melbourne
Australia
Conservative girl: Hey boss, you still got nuts?
Boss: Uh, yeah… Yeah.
Conservative girl: Oh! I mean donuts! (blushes really hard)
Alexandria, Virginia
Boss to office: Listen up, everyone. Let's just pick a design and not circle-jerk around the issue anymore.
Manhattan, New York
Project manager: I'm going to find out who sold that piece, and I'm going to chew their ass!
Boulder, Colorado
Overheard by: skelly
Employee: This is going to make me crazy. Why do they keep submitting these requests?
Manager: Seriously, I'm not in the mood today. You are going to get me all riled up.
Employee: I know. I scream every week in my therapy session.
Manager: About this?
Employee: No.
San Francisco, California
Assistant: A tree fell right on her house, so she said she won't be in today.
Supervisor: I wish a tree would fall on my house. I want a new kitchen so bad.
Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Office manager to room full of new hires: I like to reach out and touch everyone. We have lots of different ways to do that.
L'Enfant Plaza
Washington, DC
Boss lady: Okay, does anyone have any suggestions on how to overcome this problem?
Underling: (makes an appropriate suggestion)
Boss lady: Interesting. It's possible that your square peg might just fit into my round hole. (pause) No. I'm not going to say it.
Underling: Ummm…I think I'm going to be sick.
Mississauga
Canadia
Overheard by: TCon
