Death

Sales exec: I will beat you to death with your own umbrella.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Heather

Manager: I'm so stressed I'm going to jump out of the 5th floor window.
Coworker: It's not high enough. You'd need to go to at least the 7th to ensure death.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Insurance company boss on phone: Let's put it in a more practical sense: your mom dies…

White Plains, New York

Secretary: Isn't he the one that died?
File clerk, busy typing: Yes.
Secretary: Oh. Okay, well, I won't send the e-mail to him, then.
File clerk, mumbling while typing: Wow.

Riverside, California

Boss on phone: You're not going to die. Canada's not that much.

Chicago, Illinois

Professor: How are you today?
PhD student: I'm not dead.

College Park, Maryland

Cubicle worker to colleague: Yeah, my grandfather died on the Titanic. I love that boat!

45th St & Ave of the Americas

Loan officer, groaning: What are we going to do with this guy?
Processor: We could always put a dead hooker in his trunk.

Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Nikki

Coworker, arguing against gun regulations: They say that easy access to guns leads to mass killings. Well, there's easy access to prostitutes but I don't have syphilis. I restrain myself.

Nashville, Tennessee

Female coworker #1: Ohmigod, my plant's dead…
Female coworker #2: I can't believe you whined and complained for months about how you didn't get a “new hire plant” like everyone else, and when you get one… a week later it's dead because you don't water it.
Female coworker #3: I heard all these plants are responsibility tests. If you kill the plant, you're gone.
Boss over intercom to coworker #1: Report to my office immediately.
Female coworker #2: He knows about the plant.
Female coworker #1: Fuck.

McKinney, Texas