Frazzled coworker who brought her kids to work for lunch: If you touch your sister again I'm going to break all of your fingers off.
Son: Awwww, but I need all my fingers!
Palm Desert, California
Frazzled coworker who brought her kids to work for lunch: If you touch your sister again I'm going to break all of your fingers off.
Son: Awwww, but I need all my fingers!
Palm Desert, California
Office guy #1: So I heard that people in China are naming their kids after both parents, cause there are a lot of Wangs in china.
Office guy #2: Wow… That is a lot of Wang.
Toronto
Canadia
Male coworker to younger female coworker: Wanna babysit tonight so I can go out?
Female coworker: God no, why don't you have a list of teenagers? Where do you live?
Male coworker: All the teenagers are busy…I live in Kent.
Female coworker: Oh well…all the teenagers in Kent already have kids.
Male coworker: Good point.
Kent, Washington
Overheard by: Amy
Store employee on break to another: So I was like, “let's pretend we live on an oil rig and have known each other for the past 15 years!”
Toronto
Canadia
Woman to guy on other side of cube: Michael!
Michael (standing and looking over cube at her): What?
Woman: Nothing. I smelled something bad and thought it might be you.
San Diego, California
Overheard by: Cubinator
Black cube rat (comparing voter registration cards): Yours is much better than mine.
White cube rat: But yours is colored.
Black cube rat: Yours is thicker.
(pause)
White cube rat: Let's just not talk for the rest of the day.
Black cube rat: I, uh, gotta go.
Washington, DC
Coworker #1 (looking in the mirror): Did you notice that I was wearing blue eyeshadow today?
Coworker #2: No, I didn't.
Coworker #1: Thought it would bring out my blue eyes, but it just makes me look like a whore…
Addison, Texas
Overheard by: emily
Coworker (exchanging his stapler for absent coworker's stapler): My stapler is broken.
Intern: You're bad! Bad!
Coworker: Muahahaha! I am eeeevil!
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Hiding my stapler
Male office drone #1: I was just talking to a bunch of people and I realized afterwards that I had ChapStick all over my face. That's just great.
Male office drone #2: The same thing happens to me, except with lipstick.
Mesa, Arizona
Worker #1: I mean, I just want to tell them I can't make them feel better. *Bob* can't make them feel better. *Katrina* can't make them feel better. Their doctors can't make them feel better.
Worker #2: No, that's what the oxycodone is for.
Law Office
Northern California
