New recruiter: I really am hoping to get that spreadsheet from you so that I can finalize mine.
Contract recruiter: Wow. You're organized.
New recruiter: I am an anal nut.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Matt
New recruiter: I really am hoping to get that spreadsheet from you so that I can finalize mine.
Contract recruiter: Wow. You're organized.
New recruiter: I am an anal nut.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Matt
Accountant: Jumping through fire's not that hard. You just… go over it. You know how, when you wave your hand over a flame, you don't get burned? It's like that, but with your whole body.
Los Angeles, California
Female coworker #1: He told me I have astigmatism.
Female coworker #2: Oh my god! I don't even know what astigmatism is.
Female coworker #1: It's what my sister has.
Los Angeles, California
Server #1: So he deals drugs to kids?
Server #2: Well… Indirectly.
Los Angeles, California
Coworker on phone: I kinda just rub it underwater.
Stockton, California
Manager, training new employees: So… Sexual harassment. Just don't do it.
Dreadlocked newbie: What about dry humping behind the butcher counter?
Escondido, California
Overheard by: This is a health food store…
Designer, walking into boss' office: Hi.
Boss: Hi.
Designer: Hi.
Manager: Hi.
Designer to CEO: Hi.
(CEO laughs)
Designer: What's so funny?
CEO: I was enjoying the “hi”s. I wanna know what comes after the “hi”s.
Boss: The lows.
Culver City, California
Secretary: Isn't he the one that died?
File clerk, busy typing: Yes.
Secretary: Oh. Okay, well, I won't send the e-mail to him, then.
File clerk, mumbling while typing: Wow.
Riverside, California
Boss, walking by: If I'm going to go to Jupiter I'll have to leave the office.
Chico, California
Overheard by: Corgi
Guy to Egyptian coworker: Pam*, it's your song–Egyptian lover!
(Egyptian coworker just stares at him)
Santa Barbara, California
