Boss: We need you two to go through these patents on review, every line of them, very carefully. You're going to have to be real anal.
Blond coworker: Oh, I'm real good at anal.
Boss: Great, any questions?
Menlo Park, California
Boss: We need you two to go through these patents on review, every line of them, very carefully. You're going to have to be real anal.
Blond coworker: Oh, I'm real good at anal.
Boss: Great, any questions?
Menlo Park, California
Accounting woman: I am leaking.
Accounting manager: I heard you just went to the doctor.
Northbrook, Illinois
Overheard by: fishbones
Boss to colleague on phone: Yeah, the English language is quite infectious. It's like an STD.
Atascadero, California
Overheard by: I speak Gonorrhea
Boss, muttering to himself as he walks away: Now, how did I get pennies down there?
New Haven, Connecticut
CEO, farting as he walks by cubes: Excuse me, I just came back from the urologist.
(cube dwellers look at each other in confusion and start to giggle)
Springfield, Virginia
Overheard by: Glad Im Healthy
Senior VP: For all you people who are worrying about this problematic new travel coordination system, I just want to reassure you that there is, truly, light at the end of the rainbow.
San Francisco, California
Project manager: So what do you think the chances are that we will have a meeting giving us the status of what is up?
Admin: I'd say the odds are better that the girls' gymnastic team will win the 2006 Super Bowl.
Evanston, Illinois
Overheard by: teh aml
Sales rep to manager: Your shirt is a very weird green. It reminds me of green tea.
Manager: Do you want to eat me?
Sales rep (staring silently): Uh no.
Oregon
Overheard by: I love green tea
Young guy: What, you don't like Skittles?
Slightly older guy: No, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I eat them.
Young guy: How about Starbursts?
Older guy: Nope.
Young guy to boss lady: Did you hear that? Did you know you're working near a communist?
Boss lady: You see, the fact that you care about this epitomizes why the gen Xers hate your generation.
Los Angeles, California
