Executives

Exec: If we are going to succeed, we need strong leadership from everyone on the team.

50 Commerce Street
Trumbull, Connecticut

Overheard by: lowly

Executive: In ’06 we need to get more blood from the turnip.

2000 Plainfield Pike
Cranston, Rhode Island

CEO: So, how long will it take you to set that up?
System admin: Um…two minutes?
CEO: Five. You've got five. See, I doubled-and-a-halved it for you!
System admin, developer, designer: What?

State & Water
Peoria, Illinois

Overheard by: only girl in an office of men…

VP: I just completed sexual harassment training! Who’s gonna be my first victim?
Assistant: Me!

1 Glenlake Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia

Attorney: Maybe we’ll get lucky and there’ll be a murder.

County courthouse
Norristown, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Lan

Executive: At the end of December she agreed to voluntarily quit. She really wants to go and do that bendy thing — you know, yoga.

Portrero Hill
San Francisco, California

Salesman, displaying new kind of cabinet: So, as you can see, it's very sturdy and designed to last.
Female CEO: I can see that… I like a good long screw

Victoria
Australia

Overheard by: So do I

Director: So what city was Beverly Hills Cop set in?

444 North 44th Street
Phoenix, Arizona

Company president to communications VP, discussing radio interview: My whole performance level is based on my hair.

Sex Toy Company
Las Vegas, Nevada

Overheard by: Sex Writer Goddess

Associate director, eating a hamburger: This is really good.
Executive director: Yeah, isn’t it? It’s their Angus burger. It’s like real meat.

Southern Oregon

Overheard by: research associate