Cube dweller: Zebrafish! Liquid nitrogen!
Business affairs office
Oregon
Overheard by: research sounds like fun
Cube dweller: Zebrafish! Liquid nitrogen!
Business affairs office
Oregon
Overheard by: research sounds like fun
Lieutenant: I’m so cooold!
Major: There’s a black fleece over there.
Lieutenant: I prefer to tough it out.
Major: Relax! It’s not war.
Camp Arifjan
Kuwait
Database admin #1: Well, this is a good place to work. You can really learn a lot here…
Database admin #2: Unlike a shop where everything’s automated and running smoothly — a place like that, something goes down, you just execute a stored procedure and you don’t have to know what it does.
Database admin #1: Yeah, you don’t want to work in a place where everything’s well-managed and actually works.
Database admin #2: Yeah! You won’t learn anything that way!
80 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, Florida
Overheard by: The Nerd Whisperer
Coworker #1: Snogging is heavily kissing… Not getting to third base.
Coworker #2: Oh. I thought snogging was a kind of drink.
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Annabelle
Peon #1, talking about proposed ad: Show the guys driving home too quickly and then getting decapitated because they’re driving their car too fast. That’s entertainment.
Peon #2: That’s not good. I’m thinking that’s not selling sandwiches.
Toronto
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: one smelly idiot
Sales guy: What are you two up to?
Systems admin: Nothing. We’re being facetious.
Sales chick: Wow, that’s a big word for Erin*. I’m not sure she used it correctly, though.
Sales guy: We’ll give her an A for effort, though.
Systems admin, skipping: I said ‘facetious,’ I said ‘facetious’!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Trendy vegan worker: What’s that smell? Is someone cooking bacon?
Coworker: There’s some in my salad.
Trendy vegan worker: That’s so odd. I never even liked bacon, but it smells so good! It’s making me horny!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coworker: Does any other Daves work here?
Dave: No. Except for Dave.
Book store
Southlake, Texas
Overheard by: We also have three Ashleys, three Michaels and two Clints!
Worker bee: In a perfect world everyone should smell like pizza.
Hemel Hempstead
UK
Overheard by: I’d prefer fresh-cut grass
Coworker on phone: No, sir, I am not an idiot.
Chicago, Illinois
