Lady worker answering phone: Hi Alex*! … I knew it was you because this is a 321* area code, and you work in Boston and it wasn’t your home number… And if it wasn’t you, then I was prepared for your boss to be calling me telling me you fell off a stool, hit your head, and wound up dead on the floor.
Indiana
Coworker, after boss’s going-away party: I just feel sick… like I’m going to throw up. Maybe I’m allergic to sentiment.
11150 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Client on phone, returning from lunch: What, we have a meeting now? I’ll be there in ten minutes. Is [the boss] around?
Admin: Yeah, he’s right here.
Client: Good, go kick him in the shin for me.
Admin: Um, you’re on speakerphone.
Client: I hate you! How many times have I told you never to put me on speakerphone!?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ditzy CSR: I totally rocked Guitar Hero last night! I played the best song!
Innocent cube mate: Oh yeah? What song?
Ditzy CSR: You know, umm… That Aerosmith song, “Livin' on a Prayer”?
Only guy in the department: Dude! We live in New Jersey. That's Bon Jovi… I should just end my life now.
Bridgewater, New Jersey
Old white coworker about interviewee: Did you talk to her?
Receptionist: Yeah, she seemed good.
Old white coworker: Black woman, right?
Receptionist: Yeah.
Old white coworker: Oooh, they’re sharp! Well, when they’re sharp, they’re sharp!
Receptionist: Um… okay…
Horsham, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: alxie
Film crew girl #1: So, it was really awful, then?
Film crew girl #2: Oh my god, it was worse. He gave me the worst sex ever. I mean, the least you can do when you’ve made me pay for dinner and the cinema and drinks and stayed at my house all weekend is give me a right good seeing to.
Film crew girl #1: Seeing him again?
Film crew girl #2: Tomorrow night.
Brick Lane
London
England
Overheard by: Nics
Coworker: I need to leave while I can still be a character witness…
Middleboro, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Mikey
Worker bee #1: Was this a fire alarm or a severe weather alert?
Worker bee #2: I don’t think they would kick us outside during a tornado.
Opperman Drive
Eagan, Minnesota
Employee: Hey, Kathy!* I was so happy to see you come to work this morning!
Kathy: Yup, the police didn’t pick me up! Whew!
Swiss chalet near Highway 401
Whitby, Ontario
Overheard by: too naughty 4 tv
