Coworker #1: I went to his booth last weekend and fondled it.
Coworker #2: What?
Coworker #1: No, because I have the jugs.
Coworker #3: Umm…
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
Coworker #1: I went to his booth last weekend and fondled it.
Coworker #2: What?
Coworker #1: No, because I have the jugs.
Coworker #3: Umm…
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
Cubicle rat to cubicle neighbor: I told you about the gynecologist who left me on the table to deliver a baby and didn't tell me, right?
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: This is why I wear headphones
Coworker's friend, on speakerphone: I do nothing useful in this organization, and I'm committed to continuing to do just that.
Manhattan, New York
Male coworker: I've been an escort more times than I've realized.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Coworker on phone: Are you sitting down? Okay… I need you to understand you do not feed dog food to your sister. What you did was not okay. Your punishment is no iPod, no computer, no television, you are grounded to your room. You love to write, right? Well, I want you to go to your room and write a story of two sisters who love each other, but one sister was mean and tricked her sister into eating dog food. This sister must apologize to her sister that she tricked, and to mom and dad. You will read this story aloud.
Silicon Valley
California
Older male worker: I ate a live scallop once. Kinda weird, the way it pulsed in my mouth.
Young female worker: Oh my god! I could never put anything that throbbed in my mouth!
Older male worker: This conversation is over.
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: TechWritingGuy
Foreign coworker: I once see on TV a show with so many beautiful women. Later they said they were all men. I felt like jumping off building after that.
The Woodlands, Texas
Overheard by: Jeremy
Coworker: What are you wearing tomorrow?
Project manager: Oh, like for the trip?
Coworker: You should wear something really low-cut. It's gonna be a bunch of men. You need an edge.
Project manager: It's a group of like twenty women. All of them are women.
Coworker: Do you know if any of them are gay?
Manhattan, New York
Innocent-looking receptionist: After he made her cry, again, I told her what I do is just smile. When he's being like that I think about telling him I'm going to claw his eyes out, and I end up smiling.
Coworker, looking impressed: Ooohh, I know that smile. It's your creepy smile, like you're just going to lunge and start eating their faces off.
Sedona, Arizona
Colleague: He has trouble communicating. He can only say one word at a time.
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Overheard by: Exceptional Communicator
