Supervisor to associate, about smell complaints: Maybe it's something in your drawers… Umm…I mean your desk drawers.
Rancho Cucamonga, California
Supervisor to associate, about smell complaints: Maybe it's something in your drawers… Umm…I mean your desk drawers.
Rancho Cucamonga, California
IT server guy on cell: Yeah, it'll get really huge, and it'll stay like that for awhile…
Santa Clara, California
Overheard by: braingauis
Salesman: It’s this whole ‘No Child Left Behind, let’s get all the kids to graduate college’ bullshit. If everybody goes to college, who’s gonna do the work? Huh? Who’s gonna dig the ditches? Who’s gonna pick up the trash? We don’t need that. We need kids to drop out of school and do the work.
Birch Street
Brea, California
Suit on cell: I’m going home and changing into shorts. It’s so hot out there I need to throw up.
Washington Mutual
Livermore, California
Overheard by: Stephen
Guy a few cubicles down: No mom, I'm not looking at porn.
Los Angeles, California
Co-worker #1: Oh my gosh! They didn’t give us a September 31 this year!
Co-worker #2: What?
Co-worker #1: I’m serious! Look! What is this? Some sort of reverse leap year thing?
Co-worker #2: Yes, that’s exactly what this is. A reverse leap year.
Co-worker #1: Oh that’s so sad, you know, for all the kids whose birthdays are on the 31st.
Co-worker #2: You’re fucking brilliant.
2900 31st Street
Santa Monica, California
Employee: Why do you have rubber gloves?
Photographer: Don’t worry about that.
Newport Beach, California
Overheard by: Not surprised
Coworker #1: This is Matcha.
Coworker #2: What's Matcha?
Coworker #1: It's tea.
Coworker #2: I feel like a tea bag…
Los Alamitos, California
Overheard by: Lisa
Employee: You know, I like working at a place where you can say
areola and not get in trouble.
163 Freelon Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Eve S. Dropper
Student handing back professor evaluation: Sorry about the goo — it’s just from when my computer oozes, you know–
TA: –Your computer oozes? That doesn’t sound like a good thing…
Student: No, it only oozes when it’s hot!
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, California