Co-worker #1: Did you know Tony in the German office is Oriental?
Co-worker #2: Asian.
Co-worker #1: What about Asians?
Co-worker #2: You don’t say “Oriental”…you say “Asian.”
Co-worker #1: Oh, that is so PC. Oriental is fine. I had an Oriental friend once and she didn’t mind it.
93 Worcester Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Scaught
Sales #1: So what do they get in the three piece table, lamp and mirror set?
Sales #2: You’re kidding, right?
Sales #1: No really, what do they get?
Sales #2: Idiot.
2500 South Rochester Road
Rochester Hills, Michigan
Overheard by: Jenny Schneider
Frustrated employee to dim coworker: If you’d stop being an idiot I wouldn’t have to hate you anymore.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Overheard by: I Feel The Same Way
Male co-worker: It just ticks me off that Elmo is more popular than Grover. My other job was really boring, and one day I was fantasizing…
Female co-worker, interrupting: I think we’ve heard enough.
20890 Kenbridge Court
Lakeville, Minnesota
Overheard by: Gigi
Black coworker #1: So I'm trying to end the conversation and rush in my house! Did you think he saw them?
Blonde coworker #2: Of course he saw them! You got the jumbo box of Magnum condoms! Miss “I'm-going-to-save-the-environment, no-I-don't need-a-bag-for-my-inappropriate-groceries!”
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: in the cube away from them!
Co-worker #1: Is that pumpkin cream cheese?
Co-worker #2: I think so.
Co-worker #1: You mean you just blindly put that on your bagel?
Co-worker #2: What else would make it orange?
Co-worker #1: …Um…orange?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, what else is orange but pumpkin?
225 Bush Street
San Francisco, California
Coworker: So this e-mail came in, in Dutch writing, so how would I find out if it came from Australia?
Call Center
Northeast Pennsylvania
Reservationist: I heard that if you get stung by a jellyfish and you put urine on the sting, it'll stop hurting.
Reservationist #2: I'd totally pee on you.
Seattle, Washington
Editor, singing: I’m going to steal your chair when you’re dead!
6th and Lavaca Streets
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: not getting up
