Employee: Would it be better to buy life insurance while I’m still alive?
4740 44th Avenue SW
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Lisa Marshall
Employee: Would it be better to buy life insurance while I’m still alive?
4740 44th Avenue SW
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Lisa Marshall
Employee #1: Where is Great Britain?
Employee #2: I think it’s a city in Scotland or something.
Toronto, Canada
Customer: … But the sign outside says it’s $1.99.
Cashier: That’s the meat and potato burrito. You ordered chicken. That’s not meat.
301 Water Street
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Co-worker #1: If I sent the e-mail to [Duncan]’s BlueBerry, would he be able to open the attachment?
Co-worker #2: What’s a BlueBerry?
Co-worker #1: You know, a PDA. Everyone up there has them.
Co-worker #2: I thought those were BlackBerrys?
Co-worker #1: No, they are blue, the black ones are last seasons’s model. Look it up.
100 North 6th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Jay
Office mate on speakerphone: I need to send my printer back. It isn’t working.
CSR for printer company: Okay, I can set up a return shipment and get you a label and address to send yours back. What is your e-mail address, sir? [He relates e-mail address.] Okay, when you get the link on the e-mail I just sent you, print the FedEx label and put it on the box to ship it.
Office mate: Um, well, my printer is broken, which is why I am sending it back…
CSR: I understand that, sir, so what I have done to speed up the process is send you a shipping label all prepared for you to ship the box out.
Office mate: How am I supposed to do that if my printer is broken?!
CSR: Well, you print it up and put it on the box.
Office mate: Okay, when we are done with this, I would like to order an instructional DVD on how to setup my DVD player.
CSR: I’m not following you, sir. I thought your problem was with your printer. We don’t have DVD players.
Office mate: Dude, you’re killing me! Can I speak to a supervisor, please?
34th Street and 8th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Zoos
Employee written up for gossiping: I wasn’t gossiping! I was just repeating something that someone else had told me!
Kansas
Woman #1: Hi! You must be new here. What’s your name?
Woman #2: Anna*
Woman #1: Anna, when did you start?
Anna: Five years ago.
700 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, Arkansas
Co-worker: If someone is from Puerto Rico, do you say that they’re Mexican? Or Hispanic?
150 East 55th Street
New York, NY
Employee: Oh, I’ve had their Mandarin Chicken Salad, but I didn’t like it. Then again, I don’t like Mandarins.
711 Third Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Lolito
Secretary #1, talking about the real-life Napa Valley Halloween murder case: The police used his DNA and the kind of cigarettes he smoked to catch the murderer.
Secretary #2: Just like on CSI!
School
Hamilton, Ohio
Overheard by: TV has the best ideas
