Boss: There’s no ‘I’ in ‘unity’! Wait… There’s no ‘me’ in ‘team’!
Employees: [Laughter.]
300 East Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois
Boss: There’s no ‘I’ in ‘unity’! Wait… There’s no ‘me’ in ‘team’!
Employees: [Laughter.]
300 East Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois
Project Manager: I can’t get my numbers to balance with yours.
Budget Analyst: How much are you off by?
Project Manager: About a million.
5000 Ellin Road
Lanham, Maryland
Overheard by: Cantabile
Boss: What you are talking about only adds up to 10% of snake shit
compared to the problems we have.
Meeting: …
2000 West NASA Boulevard
Melbourne, Florida
Boss: It’s not like she’s moving to another state; she’s just moving out of state.
70 Charles Lindbergh Boulevard
Uniondale, New York
Assistant branch manager: Have you ever watched that show called Bizarre Foods?
Employee: No. What is it about?
Assistant branch manager: Well, it’s this show called Bizarre Foods, and they have the most bizarrest foods!
Employee: … Hence the name!
Northwest Parkway
Georgia
Manager, preparing staff party: Oh my God, look! I cut so much cheese I got a blister!
City Centre Building
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Overheard by: evil twin
Boss: I wonder what I could accomplish if I had 10 more hours in a day and a bucket of speed.
East Street
Goderich, Ontario
Canadia
Boss: The more questions you ask, the more explanations I have to give.
Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
General manager: I don't know how you use this thing, with all the damn buttons everywhere.
Reporter: Well, that's the first thing I learned in typing class…where the keys are.
Waynesville, North Carolina
Overheard by: Just an editor
Manager: So yeah, you’ve got a bit of an accent there, are you from here?
Kinko’s guy: Yeah, I mean, no, not really, I lived in Ireland until I was 3, and my family still has a pretty heavy tongue.
Manager: REALLY? That’s fascinating! Can you speak some Irish for me?
Kinko’s guy: ‘hello’?
3374 W Tharpe Street
Tallahassee, Florida
Overheard by: laughed out loud and totally busted my own eavesdropping
