Peon #1: Okay, ‘MDB’ is the code we use to get Bob’s attention.
Peon #2: Great, now we just need to hire someone named Bob.
Copenhagen
Denmark
Overheard by: Dave
Peon #1: Okay, ‘MDB’ is the code we use to get Bob’s attention.
Peon #2: Great, now we just need to hire someone named Bob.
Copenhagen
Denmark
Overheard by: Dave
Co-Worker: If you’re happy and you know it…?
Co-Worker’s 2-year-old daughter: …don’t touch a knife!
1065 Williams Street
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: manda b
Co-worker #1: Yesterday’s meeting that was really tomorrow has been re-scheduled for next Thursday.
Co-worker #2: Excellent.
220 42nd Street
New York, NY
Male Debt Collector #1: …I’m pretty sexist.
Male Debt Collector #2: I’m not sexist, I’m just realistic.
Magill
South Australia
Australia
Overheard by: Ilse
Pregnant coworker: Our workplace discriminates against women, because it sets the air conditioning too cold!
Sydney
Australia
Co-worker #1 on intercom: [Renee], you have a call on line one.
Co-worker #2 on intercom: [Brenda], there is a call on line 3 for you.
Boss on intercom: All right, people. We have to stop using this all-over-the-building page thing for no good reason.
1710 Roy Acuff Place
Nashville, Tennessee
Coworker on phone: Rachel, I'm at work, please don't bother me with… (slams phone down) Bitch! (pause) 16 year old bitch…
Manhattan, New York
Male coworker, hitting on woman in elevator: Hey, I really liked your spreadsheets.
London
England
Coworker #1, shadowboxing and humming: Dom, duh-duh, dom.
Coworker #2: Are you singing Eye of the Tiger?
Coworker #1: No, I am singing Rocky.
Coworker #2: But that is Eye of the Tiger.
Coworker #1: Are you sure? I thought it was Rocky.
Coworker #2: No, it’s Eye of the Tiger.
Coworker #1: What movie was that?
Coworker #2: Are you a moron?
1160 Battery Street
San Francisco, California
