Boss: She’s just too crazy for me. She’s…what’s the word? Phonetic!
Associate: She sounds things out?
480 San Antonio
Mountain View, California
Boss: She’s just too crazy for me. She’s…what’s the word? Phonetic!
Associate: She sounds things out?
480 San Antonio
Mountain View, California
Office lady: This girl that was in the Paralympics has 1.5 arms and no legs below the knee. She won 5 medals in the games, and is an engineer.
Office guy: What? Like on a train?
Office lady: No… For BC Hydro, duh!
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: LJ
Coworker: I got rear-ended over the weekend!
VP: In your car?
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: twoferrets
Man: Yeah, they bring us all the way over to this new building and the air conditioner doesn’t even work. It’s June and ninety degrees, and no air conditioner…but it’s not like I’m bitter or anything.
735 Brewerton Road
West Point, New York
Coworker to another: Sometimes my wheels spin around the wrong angle and then they jab at you.
Seattle, Washington
Girl office worker, pointing to three-ring binder: Oh! You have a pretty purple one!
Male coworker: Go ahead and take it.
Girl office worker: Oh, it?s too small. I need a big pretty purple one.
Male coworker: Insert your own joke here.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Male coworker covered in cardboard: Thanks for telling me I’ve been walking around with box all over my chest.
Stamford, Connecticut
Overheard by: K-Slim
Presenter: So which button do I hit to get to the next slide?
Coworker: The space bar.
Presenter: Okay, and which one is that?
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: mystified
Coworker on phone: Well, tell her to bend over and hand you some KY.
Cartersville, Georgia
Overheard by: Shocked and Disturbed
28-year-old intern: How do you spell your last name?
22-year-old intern: “Towne”. You know, like “City” only with an “e”.
28-year-old agent: Don’t you mean like “Town” with an “e”?
22-year-old intern: Nope, I mean “City”. But I suppose “Town” would work too. I never thought of that.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
