When the Office Network Is Down

Coworker #1, sighing: I feel like I'm not really doing anything right now.
Coworker #2: That's because you're not! Well you're breathing, that's about it.

Toronto
Canadia

Posted on December 25, 2015
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Or Too Few Girlfriends, Apparently

Student worker: You can never have too many Shrek posters, that's what I say.

Langford Architecture Center
College Station, Texas

Overheard by: Faith

Posted on December 18, 2015
Cinema, Coworkers, Default, Students, Texas

I Blame The Sisterhood Of the Traveling Pants

Coworker, emerging from men's room: It's my fault. I wished too hard.

Bethesda, Maryland

Overheard by: if wishes were trees

Posted on December 16, 2015
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At the Regional Conference of Elementary School Teachers

Director to underling: So you're trying to tell me that you work in this industry and you don't have an alcohol or substance-abuse problem!?

Broadway
New York City, New York

Overheard by: Garrett

Posted on December 16, 2015
Bosses and Underlings, Default, New York, Questions, Substance Use & Abuse

And Jill Came Tumbling After?

IT worker to Vietnamese coworker: Is that the day Buddha came down from the mountain?

Richmond, Virginia

Posted on December 11, 2015
Coworkers, Default, Employees, Questions, Religion, Virginia

Some Are, Some Aren’t

Receptionist on phone: Are your panties un-bunched?!

55th Street and 3rd Avenue
New York, New York

Posted on December 10, 2015
Clothes, Default, New York, On the phone, Questions, Receptionists, Words

And Right Up Until Then, They’d Had No Idea She Was Retarded

Susan*: What language was that?
Office lady, hanging up phone: Croatian.
Susan: Oh, wow, I didn’t know you were black. [Entire office goes silent.]Boss, from his office: Susan*, you’re fired.

Garden City, New York