Office worker: Do you know what that meeting was about?
Manager: Nope.
Office worker: But, what did we talk about?
Manager: Don’t know, don’t care, anyway, the cookies were nice.
Office worker: They were, weren’t they?
Bezuidenhoutseweg
The Hague
The Netherlands
Overheard by: bewildered
Co-worker #1: Wanna go eat lunch with us? We’re having Ethiopian.
Co-worker #2: Ew! You’re going to be eating beetles and shit.
Co-worker #3: Do we have to bring our own leaf to eat off of?
214 West 39th Street
New York, New York
Colleague on phone: I want to got to Mexico in May, but I don't want to miss Cinco de Mayo.
Boston, Massachusetts
Cube dweller #1: She looks like the bride of Frankenstein.
Cube dweller #2: Who’s Brian Frankenstein?
Chesapeake, Virginia
Overheard by: head:desk
Office girl commenting on CEO’s haircut: What happened to her?
Queer coworker: I know! It looks like something they created for Star Wars and then rejected: ‘Ewww, too ugly!’
701 G Street
Washington, DC
(desk girl is on long, heated phone call with same client for fifth time before noon, hangs up, and sighs)
Coworker: Do you hear them in your sleep?
West Main Street
Aspen, Colorado
Co-worker #1: Hey, look at this expense report. It says he took $50
cab rides everyday and he has no receipts! He’s milking us.
Co-worker #2: Wow! But don’t say that to our boss. She’s Jewish too.
4301 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia
Coworker to tech support: All I did was stick it in and now I can't get it out. I hate fucking computers!
Brampton
Ontario
Canada
Overheard by: Tim
Male in next cubicle, about a scar: I have one, but it's under my pants.
Female work bee: Well, let me see it. (pause) Wow, that's huge!
Male: I know, I've had it since I was little.
El Paso, Texas
Overheard by: Daniel
