Coworker #1: What happened to my entire box of paperclips?
Coworker #2: You threw them all at me, remember?
Coworker #1: Oh, that's right. Thanks for replacing them, by the way.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: MarketingMatt
Coworker #1: What happened to my entire box of paperclips?
Coworker #2: You threw them all at me, remember?
Coworker #1: Oh, that's right. Thanks for replacing them, by the way.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: MarketingMatt
Dine-in customer, slapping both hands emphatically on table: There are no evil Canadians!
Pizza Hut
Kansas
Overheard by: Salad Shooter
Puzzled IT worker holding tortilla in one hand and piece of raw cod in the other: So what you're saying is that this isn't sushi?
Coworker: It's not sushi.
IT worker: But it's raw fish!
Coworker: Well, sushi is a special kind of way of preparing it. That's just a piece of cod you bought from the fishmongers, wrapped in a tortilla.
IT worker: So… I shouldn't eat it?
Coworker: No… This is like the jam incident, isn't it?
IT worker: Fuck you! Jam is healthy–there's bloody fruit in it!
Coworker: And you wonder why you're single…
Leamington Spa
England
Overheard by: Bleep
Office slave: Thank you for so much for going above and beyond with this, you are a beautiful person!
Sales guy: Oh, you think so?
Office slave: No, not that kind of beautiful–but thank you for the help.
Colorado
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
Counselor: I'm sure he's a nice kid, but he looks like a beaver.
Decorah, Iowa
Overheard by: skm
Owner: He's a great guy. Well, he can be a great guy. Sometimes. Okay, he's dying. He has cancer.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Teen on cell: Well, you know … She just has that certain “jism” that is so attractive.
Omaha, Nebraska
Overheard by: You Mean Mojo
Accounting manager to IT manager, after lengthy discussion on software solution: You're not right, but that will work.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: makes sense
IT gal on phone: Well, that's what you get for knowing so much! If you only knew one thing, like me, it'd be easy… And I don't even know it that well!
Kansas City, Missouri
