Peon to office: Has anyone seen a magazine and some aloe lotion?
Broadway, Chicago
Peon to office: Has anyone seen a magazine and some aloe lotion?
Broadway, Chicago
Coworker #1: There was a barn fire just outside of town. The whole barn was destroyed. The farmer was missing at first, but they found his remains in the barn. They are sending the remains to Toronto to figure out the cause of death.
Coworker #2: Burnt.
Coworker #1: Excuse me?
Coworker #2: Burnt.
Coworker #1: You are a sick fuck, know that?
Waterloo
Canadia
Overheard by: Meesh
Forklift driver on shipping dock to another: Dude, you know where you find god? In jail. That's where everyone finds him. He's not on the street, he's locked up!
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Boss, just after coworker's mother died: Yeah, I have my mother's obituary all written already. I saved it in Word so it's all set and ready to go.
Bradford, Pennsylvania
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
