CSR: Click on the number on the left hand side.
Customer: Okay.
CSR: Okay, did that take you to a different page?
Customer: You want me to type in the number?
CSR: No, click on the number.
Customer: Okay.
CSR: Did that take you to a different page?
Customer: No.
CSR: Did you click on the number?
Customer: I didn’t click on anything.
CSR: Click on the number.
Customer: What number?
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: loves three way calling and the mute button
Female co-worker on the phone: When is your wife going out of town? We need to get together.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Overheard by: D
IT worker: If you use it a whole bunch of times it will become intuitive.
Madison, Connecticut
Senior VP, flipping through Rolodex: I am just removing the ones that are dead.
Employee: [silent look of horror]Senior VP: Oh, there are only three!
Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Lisa
Sales rep: I’ve been trying to get them to cut off my leg to the knee. All you got to do is polish it once a month!
Northpoint
San Francisco, California
President: In the process of moving our data center across the Atlantic, we have eliminated the Director of Operations position. We will not be refilling it.
Ops member: Are we downsizing?
President: Well, we are down one.
Spear Street
San Francisco, California
Manager, giving “Take your kid to work day” tour: Do you know who works in this department?
Kid on tour: Old people!
Oak Tree Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio
Blonde peonette #1: Is this the fax machine?
Blonde peonette #2: It *sounds* like it is.
Beale Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: wicked
Cube mate on phone: Hey! What’s up butt-lord?
[silence] No kidding! You’re such an American asshole. Later!
3rd Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: radioman
