Coworker: I can't touch that.
Manager, walking by: Whoah… Let him touch it!
Phoenix, Arizona
Coworker: I can't touch that.
Manager, walking by: Whoah… Let him touch it!
Phoenix, Arizona
Manager #1: Are you sure you don’t need anything more? We’ve got the extra money to spend.
Manager #2: Haven’t you heard? I’m cheap and easy. It doesn’t take much to please me.
Peon: That’s what I read on the intranet last week.
5442 Martway Street
Mission, Kansas
Overheard by: Office Gnome
Boss on phone, trying to dig himself out of a hole: I've been straight and honest and very clear and precise in what I say. I am very careful and think about what I say before I let it come out of my mouth, except this one time, but it went over everybody's head, so I don't think they noticed.
University
Maine
Senior VP: Whassaaaaaaaaaaaaap!
VP: You're such a loser!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Manager: Where's Mike Love's file? I need Love by 9 o'clock!
Richmond, Virginia
Co-worker: Do you want to tell them the truth?
Boss: What’s the truth?
Co-worker: The truth is that you can’t go and I don’t feel like it.
Boss: So you want to tell them that?
Co-worker: Yeah.
Boss: Do you want to tell them the truth or the enchanced version of the truth?
100 Chesley Drive
Media, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Back Office Peon
Committee member: I forgot to bring in my receipts. I am wearing the cone of shame. I have put a reminder in my bra so that when I get undressed tonight I will remember to get those to you.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Director of operations: I can drink a whole bottle of cough syrup and operate a crane, and it doesn't bother me!
Kansas City, Missouri
Director: Like all of my meetings, I don’t have an agenda. I like to just let people talk and it usually turns up interesting discussions.
5720 Peachtree Parkway
Norcross, Georgia
