Female coworker: Does your phone have a touchscreen?
Male coworker #1: Well, I can touch it, but it doesn't do anything.
Male coworker #2: Do not tell us anymore about that.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: I wanna hear more
Female coworker: Does your phone have a touchscreen?
Male coworker #1: Well, I can touch it, but it doesn't do anything.
Male coworker #2: Do not tell us anymore about that.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: I wanna hear more
Male coworker #1: Do you and your wife kiss?
Male coworker #2: God, no! Of course not!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Thorn
Puzzled IT worker holding tortilla in one hand and piece of raw cod in the other: So what you're saying is that this isn't sushi?
Coworker: It's not sushi.
IT worker: But it's raw fish!
Coworker: Well, sushi is a special kind of way of preparing it. That's just a piece of cod you bought from the fishmongers, wrapped in a tortilla.
IT worker: So… I shouldn't eat it?
Coworker: No… This is like the jam incident, isn't it?
IT worker: Fuck you! Jam is healthy–there's bloody fruit in it!
Coworker: And you wonder why you're single…
Leamington Spa
England
Overheard by: Bleep
Intern to coworker: Cathy*'s never played a video game in her life!
Coworker to Cathy*: That's probably why you do poorly here; this is the corporate version of Frogger.
Boston, Massachusetts
Foreign male coworker, returning from lunch: Hey, look at my apple bag! Want some?
Female coworker: Nah, they look rotten.
Foreign male coworker, saddened: Stop making fun of my apple bag!
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: HRuncomfortable
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
