Worker leaving office to coworker on phone: Hurry up or I’m going to poke your Pop-Tarts.
5th and Jackson
Topeka, Kansas
Overheard by: D
Worker leaving office to coworker on phone: Hurry up or I’m going to poke your Pop-Tarts.
5th and Jackson
Topeka, Kansas
Overheard by: D
Cubicle dweller to colleague: Let just ignore for a moment the fact that the data is all screwed.
Colleague: It's a rather unorthodox way of looking at it…
Austin, Texas
Female coworker #1: I really need to cut back on my caffeine.
Female coworker #2: Yeah, me too.
Female coworker #1: No, I really need to stop. Whenever I go out with my running group, I always need to pull over and shit in the bushes. Y'know, because of the caffeine.
Female coworker #2: (tries unsuccessfully to hide disgust)
Female coworker #1: What? It's totally natural.
Male coworker: Why can't there be more men in this department?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Had to stop eating my lunch
Co-worker #1: Did you just say you asked the location to give the
customer a little ass?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, ass…ya know, assistance.
Co-worker #1: Um…once again…ass is not the abbreviation for
assistance.
Boss: What’s going on?
5330 E. 31st Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Accounts receivable lady: I don’t mean to be rude, but could one of you unhook my bra? I’ve about had it with this stupid thing! [Order entry woman unhooks lady’s bra, and lady takes her bra off to swing around in air while keeping her shirt on.] Freedom! Freedom at last!
8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: never a dull moment
Lady #1: My dad doesn’t have crabs anymore.
Lady #2: Oh, really?
Lady #1: Yeah, they all died.
Lady #3: Like pet crabs, right? Otherwise that’s a little too much information.
Edmonton
Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Who would know that about their dad!?
Woman coming in from outside: It’s really human out there.
Man: Yeah — it’s not the heat, it’s the humanity that will get you every time.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: Evan
Older female colleague #1: Hey, here's the prizes you won in the raffle the other night.
Older female colleague #2: Oh, thanks. Do you want to keep the bubble bath?
Older female colleague #1, not bothering to lower her voice: Oh. No, thanks. It makes me itch down below.
Older female colleague #2: Oh. (pause) I see.
St. Peter Port
Guernsey
Overheard by: A simple
Cube dweller #1: Do you believe everything people tell you?
Cube dweller #2, pausing: I'm Catholic.
Leavenworth, Kansas
Overheard by: they're becoming self-aware
Co-worker #1: Are they going to do that thing where they make it get darker earlier again this year?
Co-worker #2: You mean Daylight Savings? Yes, I think so. I think it happens pretty much every year.
171 17th Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia
