There Are So Few Good Roles for African-American Actresses

Customer: Last week I bought two of these toy bulldozers for my nephews, and I’d like to exchange this one for a backhoe.
CSR: Okay.
Customer: Would you like me to go back to the toy department and get the other one?
CSR: No, I’ll page and have someone bring one up here for you. [Over intercom] Attention, Toy Department. Will someone please bring a black ho to the service desk? I repeat, we need a black ho at the service desk.

Value City
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Did that really just happen?

Posted on February 17, 2022
Consultants, Coworkers, Indiana, Language barrier, Retail

12PM Lunch

Accountant: We’re taking Mark* to Joe’s Crab Shack for his retirement party at the end of the month.
Secretary: Is that where you want to go? I figured you for more of a Hooters man. Wouldn’t you rather have Hooters than crabs?
Mark: I thought the two went hand in hand! You can’t have one without the other.

401 Church Street
Nashville Tennessee

Posted on February 16, 2022
Coworkers, General Idiocy, Meals and Snacks, Possible Sexual Harassment, Receptionists, Tennessee

…To an Israeli Customer?

Cube dweller #1, on phone: “Yes, “h” as in “Hitler.”
Cube dweller #2: Wow… Did he really just say that?

Kansas City, Missouri

Posted on February 15, 2022
Coworkers, Geography & History, Missouri, Names, On the phone, Questions, Words

Details Available Upon Request

Male colleague: Feeling any better?
Female colleague: Sort of.
Male colleague: Did you go make yourself throw up?
Female colleague: No, I can’t do that.
Male colleague: Oh, you’re one of those people. I can do it on command. I have a very weak sphincter.

530 5th Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: ap

Posted on February 14, 2022
Coworkers, Gossip, New York

Dude!

Drone #1: Every time Tina* leaves her office, I pop in there and rat out a fart.
Drone #2: Dude!
Drone #1: When she made me work the weekend, I pissed in all her plants and wiped my ass on her mouse pad.

Circle Center Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu

Posted on February 13, 2022
Anger management, Coworkers, Health & Hygiene, Indiana, Office Politics, Restroom, Weirdness

Imagine Being Loved With All One’s Default Settings Unchanged

Co-worker #1: We all have icky hairy things.
Co-worker #2: I shave mine.
Co-worker #3: I tried that once, but kept hunching the corners of desks.
Co-worker #1: Okay, so some of us have icky hairy things.

Washington Street
Indianapolis, Indiana

Posted on February 11, 2022
Body Parts, Compare and contrast, Coworkers, Default, Indiana

Plus You Wouldn't Have to Go to the Gym!

Coworker #1: Ugh. I don't feel like being at work today.
Coworker #2: I know. Don't you ever wish you could just fall out of bed in the morning and break both your legs so you could take a sick day?

Chicago, Illinois