Employee, on 9/10: Ohhh…I just realized what tomorrow is.
Boss: Talk like a parrot day?
Employee: Uhh…no.
Cleveland, Ohio
Overheard by: Intern
Employee, on 9/10: Ohhh…I just realized what tomorrow is.
Boss: Talk like a parrot day?
Employee: Uhh…no.
Cleveland, Ohio
Overheard by: Intern
Manager: Hey Annie, have you seen my new pen?
Waitress, excited: Oh my god, how cute!
Manager, excited: I know, right? (pause) It's really sad to think that is the most exciting things that's happened to me today.
Theater Distrtict Restaurant
New York City, New York
Male creepy marketing director, asking how to change copier's toner: So you just pull it out and shove it in?
Female office manager: (sigh)
Royal Oak, Michigan
Business user: So you're telling me that it will take six weeks to roll out this new bit of code to the stores?
Project manager: Yes.
Business user: This is ridiculous. Why can't we just have a set of rules that tells the systems what we want to do instead of inserting all this coding crap?
Project manager: Well, yes, we could do that.
Business user: Perfect! How long will it take to do that?
Project manager: About six weeks.
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Overheard by: Firebabe
CFO: What are they going to use video equipment for?
Budget services director: Making porn.
River Forest, Illinois
CEO on phone: I love immigrants, they're so cute. They're like dogs when you talk to them and they turn their heads and look at you, and try to understand.
McLean, Virginia
Overheard by: Septimus
Account executive: It's Mike's birthday today!
Mike: It is not.
CEO: Oh well, time for the ritual birthday sodomy, anyway.
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: IT Dude
Office manager: I think in my past life I was born in the Depression.
Hallway, Washington
Boss to another, on phone: I'm telling you, if we start letting them think for themselves, we're screwed!
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: Apparently Screwed
