Dumb Bosses

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

Boss on speaker: Okay then, I’ll be over in about 30 minutes to look at what you’ve got for me.
Media person: Great, we’ll see you then.
Boss on speaker: …Great, now I have one more fucking thing to do today…Fuck…
Media person: Um…You’re still on speakerphone, buddy.

1901 North Shoreline Boulevard
Corpus Christi, Texas

Overheard by: The lowly intern

Manager: We didn’t hire him because he wore Hush Puppies.

5th Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: Whitney

Executive: Where’s the resume I asked for? Where’s Bashir’s* resume? Goddammit, I can’t find that idiot’s resume. Stupid Indian.
Assistant: [Silent.]Executive: So anyways, have you been following this Don Imus thing?

420 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York

Boss: Okay [Megan], you’re going to do all the work and I’m going to go get drunk.
Admin: Okay.
Boss: Oh, why was I born? I should’ve married rich.
Admin: Rich who?

99 Wall Street
New York, NY