Local cable company exec: Does Dish or Direct TV offer service in our area?
Mesquite, Nevada
Local cable company exec: Does Dish or Direct TV offer service in our area?
Mesquite, Nevada
Exec: Hey [Nick], I’ve got a question for you.
Tax Manager: Yes?
Exec: I was thinking about you while I was in the shower this morning and–
Tax Manager: You probably shouldn’t be thinking about me in the
shower [James]; you’re a newly married man.
Exec: …
123 Robert S. Kerr Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
VP: They’re all doable. We’re just not able to do most of them.
Norwalk, Connecticut
Overheard by: Cautiously Optimistic
VP: She was mean! She said, “I guess I’ll just have to come up to New York and kill you then.”
Assistant: Was she being sarcastic?
VP: I think so.
30 E. 33rd Street
New York, NY
Account executive: We are going to need to traffic that ad out by Friday.
Traffic manager: What does ‘traffic’ mean?
Birmingham, Alabama
Senior VP: On a scale of 1 to 10, how honest are you?
Interviewee: Whatever I answer, how would you know if I’m telling the
truth or lying?
5650 Keaton Crescent
Mississauga, Ontario
Canadia
Account manager, yelling across the hall: He needs you to bring more photo paper, and black ink.
PR exec, yelling back: A black cape?
Account manager: No, ink!
PR exec: A cape?
Account manager: He wants ink!
PR exec: Why does he want a cape?
London
Canadia
Producer: So you’re from Iowa?
Consultant: No, Ohio.
Producer: Illinois?
333 North Meridian Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Girl executive: I bank at Wells Fargo.
Guy executive: Oh, they charge a bunch of fees. You must like getting fucked in the ass.
Girl executive: Well…
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Producer: One of the things that came out of the meetings is that they
wanted more diversity.
Consultant: Who?
12 West 27th Street
New York, NY
