Coworkers

Cube rat #1 in response to a mime: Thank you, Marcel Marceau… Hey, is he dead?
Cube rat #2: I hadn’t heard anything.

Sydney
Australia

Overheard by: Silent Observer

Associate: Dude, I just saw my first hot Wal-Mart employee!

RadioShack
California

Overheard by: DRM

Female coworker: We’re really glad you decided to come out!
Male coworker: Me, too!
Female coworker: So, is that your coming out stuff?

West 11th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon

Overheard by: Disappointed I’m just a temp

Coworker holding severely bent glasses to his face: I utterly despise her! She’s terrible, and particularly useless because she’s already married!

Marley Building, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Woman #1: Did you see the Avon book in accounting?
Woman #2: No, I haven’t.
Woman #1: Well, it’s all in Mexican. Only a little bit on the back was in English… Instead of having the whole thing in Mexican, they should’ve just done it half and half.

260 West Seeboth Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Coworker #1: I saw you on the train this morning. You should have sat with me.
Coworker #2: Why didn’t you say hello when we got off?
Coworker #1: You were, like, speed racer walking towards the building, and I waddle. Waddlers can only move so fast, and I had maxed out.

Long Island, New York

Overheard by: A Fellow Waddler

Coworker #1: The new fix is now in place.
Coworker #2: Is this the fix that fixes the unknown thing we don’t know about or the other thing?
Coworker #1: The unknown thing.

Oxford
United Kingdom

Woman: I don’t know if I remember that movie. When did it come out?
Man: Sometime in the ’70s, I think.
Woman: Oh. I definitely wasn’t sober then.

Nevada

Hospital employee #1: Hey, girl! You going to the club tonight?
Hoochie hospital employee: Yep!
Hospital employee #2: And how are those kids doing?
Hoochie hospital employee: My son has pneumonia, but everyone else is alright.

1600 Harrison Street
Oakland, California

Overheard by: Jefferson Smoyle

Female clerk: When I get that drunk I always end up stealing something or get something stolen from me.
Male clerk: Maybe you shouldn’t get so drunk.
Female clerk: I wouldn’t, but I can’t afford good coke with this shit job.

Oslo
Norway