Coworkers

Co-Worker: You need to preheat your hooha. This is too much.
Intern: We’re still talking about the steaming the laundry, right?

Pickard Theater
Brunswick, Maine

Overheard by: grappling with zippers

Co-Worker #1: So is Mumbai, like, a country that we do business with?
Co-Worker #2: No, it’s a city! It used to be called Bombay before those imperialist American jerks finally pulled out and the native people got their land back.
Co-Worker #1: Oh. So it was Moscow that was the country I was thinking of?
Co-Worker #2: Probably.

323B 41st Avenue
Calgary, Canadia

Math genius on the phone: It doesn’t really matter to me. It’s, like, 12 of one or half a dozen of the other.

333 2nd Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: Over-qualified, obviously

Female co-worker: He gets all the good assignments! I had to spell. He gets to shoot people!

9th Street
Sheldon, Iowa

Female employee: Man, I’m soo busy today. Why is everyone taking advantage of me?
Male employee: I dunno.
Female employee: Oh well, maybe I just let people take advantage of me. It’s just easier that way.
Male employee: Some advice: don’t ever say that in a bar.

Motorola, 1301 East Algonquin Road
Chicago, Illinois

Security guard #1: You hear about that wedding today? Someone’s gettin’ married in the park.
Security guard #2: Who? Bert and Ernie?
GR rep: Not in this state.

Sesame Place
Langhorne, Pennsylvania

Co-Worker #1: That new guy is kind of creepy, like he’s going to come in and shoot up the place.
Co-Worker #2: Yeah, I know, he’s just plain scary.
Co-Worker #1: …and not because he’s brown.

17th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia

Overheard by: Dispatch God

Woman: Isn’t this the most fucking idiotic thing you’ve ever had to do in your life?
Senior VP: No, actually, which is really embarrassing.

120 West 106th Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: George Feeney

Co-Worker, whispering on phone: And I know I’ve said this before, but I will never be naked in the file room again…

2811 Wilshire Boulevard
Santa Monica, California

British employee: Well, this was supposed to be completed by now. It looks like it’s gone all cock-up.
American #1: What?
British employee: I’m sorry, do you not have that phrase here?
American #2: In America, you can’t say cock like that. I shouldn’t hear you say cock.
American #1: We say fuck. Fucked up.
British employee: Ok, how’s this: Fuck off.

1 Corporate Drive
Orangeburg, New York