Woman on phone with colleague: You know how I always like to put my feet in the toilet because they're hot? Well, I thought about doing it here.
Manhattan, New York
Woman on phone with colleague: You know how I always like to put my feet in the toilet because they're hot? Well, I thought about doing it here.
Manhattan, New York
Coworker #1: Well, you know how she can be. He wanted to come but she would't come.
Coworker #2: Yeah, I've had that happen.
California
Confused colleague: Hey Dan, do you understand the difference between plug-in and freeze?
Dan: No.
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: confused but amused
Female coworker (asking permission to leave desk): Do you need me right now?
Male printer repairman: No.
Female coworker: That's what men always say to me…
Champaign, IL
Guy engineer #1: Hey, want a muffin?
Guy engineer #2: Dude, you’re my muffin.
Guy engineer #1, in small voice: I feel uncomfortable now.
E. County Road
Wellington, Colorado
Accountant to administrative assistant: Hey, is the company van available today?
Assistant: Not sure. I'll check and let you know.
Accountant: Well, I really need to know now.
Assistant: Then you should have asked sooner.
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Overheard by: Lil'
Woman: Do you work here?
15-year-old: No, sorry.
Uniformed Sales: Um… I do
Brooklyn, New York
Overheard by: hiding in the pants behind you
Automated computer voice on elevator: Second floor. Going down.
Old man: Uh, up yours.
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: Up it to what?
(sound of whip cracking)
Next cubicle coworker: Ahh, my eye!
Mission Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Ian
(toilet, stall to the left)
Coworker: Corn? Corn? When did I have corn?
Harrisburg , Pennsylvania
Overheard by: in between stalls
