Female coworker: Paul*, did you stick your finger in the machine last night?
Macon Avenue
Asheville, North Carolina
Female coworker: Paul*, did you stick your finger in the machine last night?
Macon Avenue
Asheville, North Carolina
Peon, about new manager: We can be flexible and try new things and watch it blow up in her face.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Analyst #1: It’s perfect — it’s like a unicorn.
Analyst #2: We’ll see some disagreements on perfect.
Empire Avenue
Burbank, California
Overheard by: Statja K
Cube rat #1 in response to a mime: Thank you, Marcel Marceau… Hey, is he dead?
Cube rat #2: I hadn’t heard anything.
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: Silent Observer
Associate: Dude, I just saw my first hot Wal-Mart employee!
RadioShack
California
Overheard by: DRM
Female coworker: We’re really glad you decided to come out!
Male coworker: Me, too!
Female coworker: So, is that your coming out stuff?
West 11th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon
Overheard by: Disappointed I’m just a temp
Coworker holding severely bent glasses to his face: I utterly despise her! She’s terrible, and particularly useless because she’s already married!
Marley Building, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Woman #1: Did you see the Avon book in accounting?
Woman #2: No, I haven’t.
Woman #1: Well, it’s all in Mexican. Only a little bit on the back was in English… Instead of having the whole thing in Mexican, they should’ve just done it half and half.
260 West Seeboth Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Coworker #1: I saw you on the train this morning. You should have sat with me.
Coworker #2: Why didn’t you say hello when we got off?
Coworker #1: You were, like, speed racer walking towards the building, and I waddle. Waddlers can only move so fast, and I had maxed out.
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: A Fellow Waddler
Coworker #1: The new fix is now in place.
Coworker #2: Is this the fix that fixes the unknown thing we don’t know about or the other thing?
Coworker #1: The unknown thing.
Oxford
United Kingdom
