Employees

Clerk: Blumenthal… Yeah, Blumenthal. You think he's any relation to that mayor of New York?

Omaha, Nebraska

Overheard by: Doug's Mom

Voice over loudspeaker: John Smith, please report to baggage claim to meet your wife and girlfriend. John Smith to baggage claim, meet your wife and girlfriend.

Oakland Airport
Oakland, California

Overheard by: Meg

Waiter: There's a fly buzzing around. I kept him off your food.
Manager: Ah, it doesn't matter. Nobody ever died from that.
Waiter: Nobody ever died from licking my balls, either. You want to come over here and do that?

Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu

Office girl #1: Obviously, I just brewed coffee, right? So of course she has to be the first to get some. Well, I walk into the kitchen and she's facing the freezer with the freezer door open, and she has the coffee pot up to her nose, and she's smelling it. I have no idea what the hell was going on.
Office girl #2: What the eff?
Office girl #1: Yeah… I'm thinking that maybe… No, no, I really have no idea.

Sacramento, California

Office Manager: How do you go out to lunch and come back with a huge cucumber?
Employee: How do men go out at night and come back with hookers?
Office Manager: Huh?
Employee: It’s the same basic principle.

110 N. Washington Street
Rockville, Maryland

Overheard by: Joan

Man on phone: Man I saw plenty of dogs in Shanghai, and I gotta tell you they weren't eating them!

Chinatown
Washington, DC

Ghetto fabulous phone operator in auto insurance claim office: What that smell is? That's just raunchy! They need to go outside with that smell!

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Overheard by: Sick of sitting nearby this person

Female worker: That's my cue to saddle up! (mimes mounting a horse)

Morris Plains, New Jersey

Overheard by: Intern in the next Cube

HR woman on phone with rep at staffing agency: I will drive over there and I will smack you; and then I will fire you in front of your peers.

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Anony Mouse

Employee #1: Well, you should move to New Jersey. There are great apartments in my complex.
Employee #2: I don’t know that I want to move out there.
Employee #1: The apartments are great, lots of closet space, granite countertops in the kitchen.
Employee #2: I don’t want granite counters. If I fall and hit my head on them, it would hurt.

1 Liberty Plaza
New York, New York