Middle management: Hey, I like your tie. It looks very vintage.
Regular employee: “Vintage”…Yeah, hey I like that! That sounds great!
Later, at lunch.
Regular employee: Hey, guys, check this out! I just put cheese on my soup. Now that is vintage!
Raleigh, North Carolina
Union worker: Listen… Listen to me. You can’t fool me. I am my father’s son. You can’t pull the shirt over my eyes. You do what you gotta do.
309 West 49th Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: fredshah
Worker: It took me forever to get to work today. I don’t mind the snow so much, but I wish it would only snow on the grass.
25101 Chagrin Boulevard
Beachwood, Ohio
Partner: Call Greg* and have him look over these documents.
Associate: Greg had surgery yesterday and is in the hospital. Do you want to call someone else to review them?
Partner: No, Greg can do it. It’s not like he’s dead.
Associate: Okay, I’ll call him in the morning.
Partner: No, call him now. It’s not like he has anything better to do tonight.
Law firm, 1201 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: jennifer
Bookstore clerk: Hehe, there’s a book called The Idiot?
Barnes & Noble
Emeryville, California
Professor: You will have those students that don’t show up to class or office hours, or that don’t care about their grades. What causes this?
TA: Global warming?
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: underpaid TA
Lawyer: I’m going to court. Hold down the fort, Ben.
Ben: OK, you got it.
Lawyer: Don’t let those Apaches in!
50 East 42nd Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: marco
Phone rep: Can I get your name?
Customer: [Mumbles.]Phone rep: I don’t think I got that. Did that start with a ‘K’… as in ‘cat’?
Austin, Texas
40-ish supervisor: You’re listening to the Bee Gees? Wasn’t Leif Garrett in the Bee Gees?
20-ish employee #1: All I know is that someone in the group committed suicide.
20-ish employee #2: No, Leif Garrett was in the Beatles.
1241 Dyer Road
Santa Ana, California
Receptionist: it's too hot. i think i might die.
Boss: You will not die. People have survived thousand of years without air conditioner.
Receptionist: And where are all those people now? Dead! That's where.
Los Angeles, California
