Manager: The first deadline is April 31st and second deadline is May 31st.
Employee: There’s no 31st in April…So we have just one deadline.
Cyber Gateway building
HITEC City, Hyderabad
India
Manager: The first deadline is April 31st and second deadline is May 31st.
Employee: There’s no 31st in April…So we have just one deadline.
Cyber Gateway building
HITEC City, Hyderabad
India
Worker: If you see [Jen] or [Jake], can you tell them I need to talk to them?
Boss: What for?
Worker: I just need to ask them about this thing for Thursday.
Boss: Oh, I don’t know anything about that. You’ll have to ask [Jen] or [Jen] about it.
120 West First Avenue
Mesa, Arizona
Boss: I was hoping you could take care of it without a bunch of rigor mortis.
1701 Monterey Street
San Luis Obispo, California
Supervisor: This is the best chicken since sliced bread!
2 Charlotte Street
Sackville, New Brunswick
Canadia
Worker: What?
Boss: What?
Worker: Were you talking to me?
Boss: No, to myself.
Worker: Sorry.
Boss: How dare you eavesdrop on a conversation I’m having with myself!
8403 South Park Circle
Orlando, Florida
Overheard by: Mary H
Account Manager: I’m getting more serious getting these people to pay. I’ve been letting them know if they don’t call me back, I’ll have to take affirmative action!
General Manager: Do you know what that means?
Account Manager: Yeah! It means I’m serious!
General Manager: No, “affirmative action” is when you give someone a job just because they’re a certain minority group or sex.
Account Manager: Oh. I bet they don’t know what it means either!
1570 North McMullen Booth Road
Clearwater, Florida
Boss: Oh, one other thing. I didn’t think the Sunday [product] was very strong.
Worker: Well, what would you have done differently?
Boss: I’m not really sure…I just think we needed something different there.
Worker: Like what?
Boss: Well, that’s really the question, isn’t it?
120 West First Avenue
Mesa, Arizona
Management: We’ve got to keep the inertia going.
7234 Lancaster Pike
Hockessin, Delaware
Regional Director: So our biggest problem last year was we tried to take over the whole world, and the whole world is a big place. We need to think small, concentrate on taking over individual countries first…like Wisconsin.
2100 South Priest Drive
Tempe, Arizona
Project Manager: So it sounds like the only thing holding us back from launching early is being ready.
Meeting: …
1900 Prairie City Road
Folsom, California
Overheard by: Sumeet
