Female coworker #1: Stop pouting. That might be appropriate behavior with a sexual partner, but it isn't appropriate among your coworkers.
Female coworker #2: If I offer you sexual favors, would that make it okay?
Manhattan, New York
Female coworker #1: Stop pouting. That might be appropriate behavior with a sexual partner, but it isn't appropriate among your coworkers.
Female coworker #2: If I offer you sexual favors, would that make it okay?
Manhattan, New York
Hipster teen on phone: Oh, that was awesome! Like a combination of Fergie and Jesus!
Barnes & Noble
Greenfield, Wisconsin
Overheard by: darkhorse
Office mate (confused after not getting the whole story): You paraphrase like a boy. We're girls, we want to hear the truth.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Office worker #1: …. Mmmmmm…. You really don’t look well. What’s wrong?
Office worker #2: Well I don’t know… Is it normal for your bladder to be apprehensive?
Grafton Street
Dublin
Ireland
Overheard by: Rory the irish guy
Office girl #1: Is there a shortcut to delete something in excel?
Office girl #2: Just hit delete.
Office girl #1: Yeah but you know how Control-c is copy and Control-v is paste.
Office girl #2: Well there is an actual delete button.
Office girl #1: No, I know -I am just trying to save time.
Office girl #2: Well hitting two buttons is not going to be quicker than hitting one.
Office girl #1: I know -but it’s a shortcut, you know?
Office girl #2: Google it.
Corporate Pointe
Culver City, California
Overheard by: Lyn
Coworker to another: That guy walking down the street looks like my brother's baby's mama's other baby's daddy.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Employee friend: So, is everybody getting laid off then?
Executive friend: Not everybody.
(employee friend smiles)
Executive friend: Just everybody that wasn't on the commonwealth* project.
Employee friend: I wasn't on the commonwealth project.
Executive friend: Oh, yeah, uh…
Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: I WAS on the Project!!!
Loopy office lady: Oh, in the winter I only drink decaf, but in the summer, I drink coffee with one shot of Kahlua, one shot of Baileys, and one scoop of vanilla ice cream. Oh, yeah! And one shot of amaretto.
Office Park
Murray, Utah
Overheard by: I'm the sucker with cream only.
Coworker #1, walking down hallway: What's so wrong with beating dead whores?
Coworker #2: I don't really know what to say right now.
Coworker #1: See! In this morning's meeting nobody else said anything about it either. I was just saying that we need to stop talking about the budget because it's like beating dead whores. Like that saying goes. But the conversation just kind of stopped.
Orlando, Florida
Overheard by: Jen
Employee: You look like a hobo office worker! Can I take a picture?
Los Angeles, California