Dumb Bosses

Boss looking at her new laptop: There are too many keys.

Bank
New York

Overheard by: Tjay

Boss on speaker phone: So I need you to give me those files, like, in five minutes.
Employee: Um.
Boss: I’m serious. I want them in my hand in five minutes.
Employee: You know that I work at home, right?
Boss: So?
Employee: So I live forty-five minutes away from your so-called “office”…Speaking of which, did you ever get that toilet out of the hallway?

3207 Hayloft Court
Frederick, Maryland

Overheard by: Ren

Head trainer: Let’s face it, if you could be all that you could be, you wouldn’t be working here…
Class: [Silence.]Trainee #1: [Applause.]Trainees #2 and #3: [Applause.]

Mutual of America, 320 Park Avenue
New York, New York

Manager: So, I need to ship something to Belgium. Belgium is in the Netherlands, right?

15585 Highway 11 N
Cottondale, Alabama

Overheard by: BAMA

Manager: I hate it when black people make a big deal about being black when they accept awards. It’s like the Holocaust; they have to get over it.

4189 Route 9
Freehold, New Jersey

Overheard by: Robert Max Freeman

Art director, peeling an orange: I wish homeless people smelled like oranges.

Oak Lawn Avenue
Dallas, Texas

Semi-boss: No, I mean, I just misspelled every single word and, like, inverted letters and stuff.
Assistant: Maybe your hands were in the wrong place on the keyboard… Or maybe you have that thing that Tom Cruise has.
Semi-boss: Scientology?

Newark, Delaware

Manager #1, waiting for elevator: He said it was intermittent.
Manager #2: He said it was what?
Manager #1: You know, like in her mittens.
Manager #2: Oh, in her mittens.
Manager #1: Yeah, mittens. (makes lobster claw motions with hand)
Manager #2: I never understand a word that comes out of his mouth.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Overheard by: The Receptionist

Manager: Can you spell my email address?
IT guy: It’s your name!
Manager: I know, but could you spell it for me?

1979 Marcus Avenue
Lake Success, New York

Overheard by: Why am I the temp again?!?

General manager to hostess who slipped and fell: So, how’s your ass?

Beaumont, Texas