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
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
Aggressive advertising program manager: Yeah, then on the conference call we can tell them about all the ways we can go to malls and touch the kids!
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
IT manager: Oh my god, look! They gave her panties!
Network admin: Look, they gave him panties too!
IT manager: No way! (picks up Star Trek barbie to check)
Tacoma, Washington
Communications person: Do you think we need to tell the field?
Change manager: Well, it all depends on what level of confusion you want to communicate.
Columbus, Ohio
Female operations manger, on phone with another woman: He's wrong, he's wrong… becuase he's a man!
Woburn, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Choo Choo Charlie
Unwell-looking manager, coughing: I think I might go home a little earlier today. (coughs) I'm feeling a bit fluey.
Paranoid coworker: I don't want the flu–don't come anywhere near me!
Perky coworker to manager: I've had the flu vaccination–you can come all over me!
Melbourne
Canadia
Overheard by: confused but amused
Office manager, ordering markers from supply catalog: What about this one?
Receptionist: Yeah. Anything that says “magnum” must be good.
Office manager: Yep.
Receptionist: I just need something big and fat.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Manager to worker: Did you get some sun this weekend?
Worker, sheepishly: Yeah.
Manager with gusto: Man, you're redder than a dick on a dog!
Southlake, Texas
Ex rock band member, current marketing manager: We just busted our nuts all over this project and now, I'd really like someone else to bust their nuts for us!
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: working through lunch
Engineering manager: He just knocked a ChapStick out of my ear with a grape!
Central Florida
Overheard by: Arfnotz