Guy over PA system: May I have your attention please. There has been a fire reported in the building.
Co-Worker: Well, that’s just an excuse to go smoke.
East 13th Street
Cleveland, Ohio
Overheard by: blocking the exit
Guy over PA system: May I have your attention please. There has been a fire reported in the building.
Co-Worker: Well, that’s just an excuse to go smoke.
East 13th Street
Cleveland, Ohio
Overheard by: blocking the exit
Pudgy guy in lift: A six-week holiday tells you just how much you hate your job.
Female colleague: So, what are you going to do? Get out of here?
Pudgy guy: Well, I can't do anything else… I could go back to geology.
New South Wales
Australia
Coworker #1: Well, do they exude toxins?
Coworker #2: I dunno.
Coworker #1: The doctor had her block off one nostril and it shot right out. Just like CPR!
Ithaca, New York
Overheard by: Does this end with monkeys again?
Coworker #1: Man, this is discolored.
Coworker #2: Yeah, you probably licked it.
Coworker #1: I hate that. Licking always discolors things.
Austin, Texas
Strategist #1, in comical accent: That's a match!
Strategist #2: I can't tell if that was Borat or one of the Mario Brothers.
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: McNasty
Coworker #1: I keep putting an “L” in your name when I type it!
Coworker #2, named Heather: Really?
Coworker #1: I think it's because I type “health” all the time…
Coworker #3: I was thinking “leather!”
Central Pennsylvania
Overheard by: suprchick
Woman #1, looking over cubicle: Rachel is going to be angry that you are sending her so many emails.
Woman #2, turning around: Who gives a fuck?
Woman #1: Seriously, you better watch it. [looks around] She can’t take too many emails, she has to pace herself.
Paramus, New Jersey
Overheard by: Not pacing myself!
Courtyard dweller #1: I am not sure I should hire him.
Courtyard dweller #2: Why? He seems cool enough.
Courtyard dweller #1: I asked him what he was listening to on his iPod when he walked in.
Courtyard dweller #2: Yeah, and?
Courtyard dweller #1: He was listening to Celine Dion.
Courtyard dweller #2: Enough said.
10050 Wolfe Road
Cupertino, California
Female coworker #1: Squiggy committed suicide last night.
[Long pause.]Female coworker #1: He seems to have jumped out of the tank and shriveled up on the desk top… so it looks like I’ll be getting another guppy.
Female coworker #2: Looks like it.
Female coworker #1: Or… Yeah, I guess I’ll get another guppy.
Baltimore, Maryland
Coworker #1, about unproductive meeting: It's like a circle jerk?
Coworker #2: A circle jerk where no one comes.
Coworker #1: Those are the worst kinds.
Sacramento, California
