Dumb Employees

Executive assistant: I think I touch and smell just about everything.

141 River’s Edge Drive
Traverse City, Michigan

Overheard by: Another Assistant

Female cubicle-dweller: Good news! Remember that smell I kept smelling but couldn’t find? That garbage smell? It was me!

1009 Lenox Drive
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Office drone to receptionist: Debbie asked me to make sure her wieners didn't get too hot, and that meant I had to touch them!

Denver, Colorado

Coworker #1: Ha! They have phones with big numbers for people with fat fingers.
Coworker #2: Dont be mean — they’re probably for deaf people.

25 North Terrace
Adelaide
Australia

Overheard by: collins

Coworker #1: Weather said 50% chance of rain.
Coworker #2: Psh! Yeah, right!
Coworker #3: But…it did rain.
Coworker #2: Yeah, a little. Like maybe fifty raindrops, but sure as hell no fifty percent.

9482 Ajax Road
McGregor Range, New Mexico

It's a New Orleans Thing, Dear Reader

Operator setting up auto claim with customer on phone: Sir, I'm so sorry your car got stolen today. At least you babies and CDs are fine. I think you need to git you some whiskey to calm you down. Or just do what I do to calm myself down, cheer! “Who dat! Who dat! Who dat! Yayayayayaya! Who dat!”

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Overheard by: Wish I had my MP3 player today

Worker: Didn’t the doctor say that you have to lose weight because it was pressing down on your diaphragm and giving you breathing problems?
A/P drone: Men have diaphragms?

Century City, California

Overheard by: Squelch

Project manager: People think I’m a liberal because I’m always going down on George Bush.

Detroit, Michigan

Cafeteria lady: Man, I gotta teach that girl some phone etiquacy…she is so ghetto!

Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: excited to learn a new word

Office chick #1: I want a small desk lamp for ambient lighting. A candle would rock… but I know most companies frown upon flammable things.
Office chick #2: Well, we have a flammable toaster oven, so I don’t see how a small candle would be any different.

Cherry Hill, New Jersey