Lady worker: Okay. So I have my people coming for the work party, you just need to take care of the volcano.
Guy: Oh yeah! Right.
Washington State
Lady worker: Okay. So I have my people coming for the work party, you just need to take care of the volcano.
Guy: Oh yeah! Right.
Washington State
Annoying coworker on phone, loudly: Yes, just a wax. (pause) What's a Hollywood?? (pause, then softly) Oh, no, hang on… No, I don't think so.
Johannesburg
South Africa
Overheard by: Gael
Coworker #1: She doesn't look that old! She must have had some crazy plastic surgery.
Coworker #2: Or maybe she just emerges from underneath their beds at night and eats children's souls.
Manhattan, New York
Coworker: Women are very Gestalt, you have to take the whole thing. If you start taking just the parts, you're going to end up on the evening news.
Branchburg, New Jersey
Female CSR #1: I'd rather be a prostitute than work here another minute.
Female CSR #2: I'm thinking more along the lines of being gang-raped by midgets.
Call Center
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: hear no evil
Analyst to another, about leftovers from office picnic: Did you grab your meat? Cause if you didn't, you're SOL.
Arnold, Missouri
Elderly coworker, a little too enthusiastically: Hey, why don't you just Outlook me later?
Younger bewildered coworker: Um, okay, I guess…
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: AlsoBewildered
Suit to another, as they walk away from urinals: I just tell people I played with it too much as a teenager and wore it down to the nub.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: never making eye contact again
Coworker: If I ate everything that smelled good I would be dead.
Monroe, Wisconsin
Overheard by: Amanda
