Boss on phone: I just want a human beeeeeeing! Bahhh! Why can’t I just have a human being?…Oh thank god!Finally! A human being! Wait, you are a human being, right?…You haven’t gotten this before?
2810 Blaine Drive
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Boss on phone: I just want a human beeeeeeing! Bahhh! Why can’t I just have a human being?…Oh thank god!Finally! A human being! Wait, you are a human being, right?…You haven’t gotten this before?
2810 Blaine Drive
Chevy Chase, Maryland
CSR: This is my senior picture in high school.
Manager: You were a cheerleader?
CSR: Yeah.
Manager: What happened?
730 International Parkway
Richardson, Texas
Overheard by: El Gee
Boss: Hey, can you make a calendar that looks like this? [Hands a paper to her.]Underling: Yeah. You know this is from [the other agency], right?
Boss: Yeah, the client likes it. We have to go with that.
Underling: But their calendar is a copy of the one I did for the client. The client just handed it to them, and they made all these little changes.
Boss: Yeah, just do it like that.
Underling: But I already did it. They only took my calendar and messed with it.
Boss: Just make it look like this one!
Underling: But it’s my calendar!
Boss: Just make it look like this one! [Boss stalks off.]Underling, to entire office: Am I in a Dilbert cartoon?
3rd Avenue
New York, New York
Boss: What the hell is this in my mouth? It’s not the butterscotch I expected, that’s for sure.
1440 South Clearview Avenue
Mesa, Arizona
Overheard by: Chris Cardinal
Manager going to lunch with friend: Did you leave yet?!
Friend: Um, no.
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Office Manager: How do you spell “Useta”?
Co-worker: Use it in a sentence.
Office Manager: I “useta” drink Cokes; now I only drink water.
Co-worker: That is an Arkansas word.
1700 Westpark Drive
Little Rock, Arkansas
Director: It’s one of those chicken-before-the-horse things.
925 4th Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Blaque Mackintosh
Co-worker: We had Burger King breakfast in Mexico and it had refried beans and peppers in the eggs.
Manager: They were probably goat’s eggs, not chicken eggs.
9353 Jefferson Highway
Maple Grove, Minnesota
Manager: How do you tell the client that they’re an idiot? What’s the wording I should use for that?
1 South Road
Harrison, Ohio
Boss: Maybe I’m suffering from a case of magnesia…uh, uh, you know, like I forget things.
75 Union Avenue
Rutherford, New Jersey