Coworker #1: Is it in regular writing or slanty writing?
Coworker #2: “Slanty” writing? Italics?
Coworker #1: No, italics is when it is bold.
Medical Office
Durham, North Carolina
Coworker #1: Is it in regular writing or slanty writing?
Coworker #2: “Slanty” writing? Italics?
Coworker #1: No, italics is when it is bold.
Medical Office
Durham, North Carolina
Coworker: Wow! Those are some shiny shoes! You know, it’s a good thing to have shiny shoes because people are more likely to be enthralled by your feet and less likely to notice your incompetence.
Elevator, Office building
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: checking own feet
Grunt #1: We need to buy a couple of monkeys and have monkey knife fights.
Grunt #2: Is there anything against the law about that?
2540 Satellite Boulevard
Duluth, Georgia
Coworker #1: Tell me I’m crazy.
Coworker #2: You’re crazy.
Coworker #1: Yeah, Helen* totally caught me checking out Bob* yesterday.
Coworker #2: You’re crazy, ’cause he’s gay…
Coworker #1: So, what? Gays aren’t allowed to look good?
Missoula, Montana
Overheard by: Gaia
Coworker #1 on phone: Seriously, it was like neutering a cat with a butter knife.
Coworker #2 on speaker: What?
DT Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Suddenly glad I don’t have pets
Advisor #1: Wow, you're really almost done packing up your office. All the rainbow stuff is gone…
Advisor #2: I never had any rainbow stuff up. It was just colorful.
Advisor #1: True. It's like the party's over.
Advisor #2: Yup. The make-up's off. My hair's messed up… Can't find my underwear.
Advisor #1: Wait, how is that different from any other day?
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Daniel
Passing hallway drone: You’re so far off from being okay that I don’t even know where to begin.
304 Park Avenue South
New York, New York
Coworker #1: Hey, how’s it going?
Coworker #2: Good, how’re you doing?
Coworker #1: Not bad — it’s almost Friday.
Coworker #2: It is Friday!
Coworker #1: Really?! It’s Friday? That’s awesome! I thought it was Thursday!
Coworker #2: It’s Friday for me — I’ve got tomorrow off.
10750 Wheat First Drive
Glen Allen, Virginia
Chick: Hello?
Dude: Hey.
Chick: Take me off speakerphone!
Dude: [Picks up phone] Don’t order me around like that!
Chick: Ha, ha… I like how you took me off speakerphone first and then told me not to order you around.
Dude: You are such a princess… Am I on speakerphone?
Chick: Yup.
Dude: Jerk.
403 & Highway 10
Mississauga, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: who’s the boss?
Staying coworker: Now that you're leaving, we're going to have to work twice as hard.
Leaving worker: I know, you have to take advantage of the opportunity. Just like I'm going to start being a dick to everyone.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Overheard by: DIV
