Bosses

Boss in meeting: You want to hear the CEOs speech, go google it on YouTube.

Wiesbaden
Germany

Overheard by: woken by snickering co-workers

Boss: Who likes fake ones? Sure, they feel real, but you can't suck on them without thinking, “damn, these taste fake.”

Fairfax, Virginia

Overheard by: WD40

Leader of meeting to team members: Alright, team, let's keep working to get out of this backlog. The backlog is our baby and we need to get rid of it!

Raleigh, North Carolina

Managing editor to editor: The healthy one fell into the river, and the dead one scraped the side of the house.

Bennington, Vermont

Overheard by: proscriptus

Boss to employee: Now, I want you to go back into your office and smash your head into the wall until it bleeds.

Montreal
Quebec
Canadia

Overheard by: Sarah

Boss to employee: This is a “sorry you're leaving” card. But someone's written in it “happy birthday,” and someone else has written “congratulations on the engagement, and on the baby.”

Cambridge
England

Owner: He's a great guy. Well, he can be a great guy. Sometimes. Okay, he's dying. He has cancer.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Boss: Dave*! You look like you've lost weight! Ever think about getting one of those HIV tests?

Calgary
Canadia

Director: So, Amy* wants to know if you'd like to have dinner with her and Sandy* and I next weekend. But I told her I'd have to take the gag out to ask you. She said she understood.
Model wearing gag: Mmmm fweee nnn maturdway.
Director: Great, I'll let her know!

Adult Film Company
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: fetishgirl

VP of development in grant meeting: Shooting the bird is not a process.

Cedar Street
Austin, Texas