Financial Folk

CFO with faraway gaze: It would be a lot of fun to defraud people.

535 8th Avenue
New York, New York

Female coworker: Well, I guess I hadn’t thought it out so thoroughly.
Male coworker: Yeah, and the hookers were like, ‘Woo-hoo, market share!’

Chevy Chase, Building 4
Maryland

Overheard by: Xen

Female accountant: I’m allergic to chocolate.
CFO: Really? My daughter is allergic to — how does she put it — ‘Wrinkly nuts.’

7887 E Belleview Avenue
Englewood, Colorado

Overheard by: Did anyone else hear that?

CFO: Our budget has been balanced the last few years because of unpaid maternity leaves, and we are working that into our models for coming years.
Committee member: So our financial solvency is based on people in the company having sex?
CFO: Basically.

Klaipeda
Lithuania

Mortgage guy: I’ve lost 12 lbs. over the last 2 weeks!
Realtor chick: I’m gonna miss your chubby.

Yorba Linda, CA

Overheard by: laughing hysterically

Client: Why do I have financial charges? It was a plan for "same as cash" for eighteen months.
CSR: Well, sir, we sent you eighteen months of statements telling you that if you don’t pay by the due date, you’ll have financial charges to pay and exactly how much they would be.
Client: You expected me to read my mail?

Citibank
Toronto, Canada

Overheard by: Citi Slicker

Customer: That’s a pretty name. Different.
Cashier: Yeah, you don’t see it much up here. It’s Mexican.
Customer: Don’t you mean it’s Spanish?
Cashier: No, it’s Mexican in origin.
Customer: Racist.

Sprague and Sullivan
Spokane, Washington

Overheard by: It’s this whole other country

Intern: I’m sorry that I didn’t turn in my time sheet on Friday. I was on vacation and didn’t have access to a computer.
Payroll official: Well, I’ll let it go this time. Just don’t keep us in lingo again.

130 Cremona Drive
Santa Barbara, California

Overheard by: A disbelieving employee

CFO: Some days I’m amazed at your talent. Other days I just feel like I have forty extra children.

312 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

Portfolio Manager: She’s pissed that I didn’t sell the stock before it
went down.
Trader: Don’t you know that you are supposed to know when that’s gonna
happen?
Portfolio Manager: I guess not…

1900 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, Ohio