Bosses

Female marketing manager on phone: That was the best meeting we've had since I've been here. It felt like sex! When it was finished I wanted to smoke a cigarette and drink some scotch.

Technology Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hotel Manager: Can we help you, ma’am?
Guest: My husband just got on the elevator without me, I can’t believe that little shit/
Hotel Manager: Well, if we track him down we can send him your way.
Guest: If I can’t keep track of him after 30 years you won’t either.

9 East Wilson Street
Madison, Wisconsin

Project Manager: He needs to step into my office. The office of my fist. If he messes with my developer one more time, I’m gonna drop him like a bad habit. And by “drop” I mean “drop kick”. And by “bad habit” I mean “communist hobo”.

1375 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, Georgia

Boss to IT guy, looking at server cabinet: I noticed you cleaned it up when you put the new server in–it looks a lot better. Wait, where's the new server?
IT guy, pointing at small-form tower: Oh, it's there, tiny little thing, but it does the job.
Boss: Are you sure that's a server? It looks like a UPS to me.
IT guy: Uhhhh…

Caboolture
Australia

Girl tech: We are blocking emails to our customers with the word disbursement in it because of “semen”.
Head tech dude: Semen?
Guy tech #1: Are you sure semen isn’t somewhere else?
Guy tech #2: Semen? Like the nasty stuff?
Head tech dude: We’ll have to adjust the filter, we are blocking reimbursement too.
Girl tech: Jeez, this blocking could cause all sorts of problems.

9001 Shelbyville Road
Louisville, Kentucky

Overheard by: Andy Goss

CR manager: I don't want some bulky thing, a 2-incher ought to do it.

Las Colinas, Texas

Overheard by: Cubical Dweller Pita

Partner: I guess just like people watch tv electronically, one day they'll figure out how to send mail electronically.

Brooklyn, New York

Creative director: Okay, well… just… put it on the back burner for now. And maybe it will go away.
Art director: I like where your head is at.

Ad agency
Hudson Valley, New York

Overheard by: Staci Lynn

Male boss: So, earlier I walked down the hall calling your name, looking for you, but my wife is the one that responded…
Coworker, jokingly: That's because our names sound so much alike.
Male boss: No, I think it's because when we have sex I like to pretend she's a man and I call out your name.
Coworker: That's the most fucked-up thing you've ever said to me.

Charleston, South Carolina

Boss on phone: I dreamed about pork last night… Is that weird?

Adelaide
Australia