General Idiocy

Customer Service Specialist on phone: No, sir. You just had a credit line increase yesterday…Well, sir. That’s how the potato chips.

Customer Service Specialist: …Damn towelhead.

14700 Citicorp Drive
Hagerstown, Maryland

Co-worker #1: [Anna] is really mean.
Co-worker #2: It’s because of her race.
Co-worker #1: What? Her race?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, whatever she is; they’re all like that.

171 17th Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia

Co-Worker #1: Are you ok? You seem frazzled.
Co-Worker #2: Oh, I hit the ground running this morning, and things haven’t let up.
Co-Worker #1: You hit the ground? Did you hurt yourself?

1700 North Maitland Avenue
Maitland, Florida

Overheard by: Siege

Boss: Did you leave this in the copier? It got jammed.
Employee: Yeah, I guess I did. Sorry.
Boss: If you and [Janet] ever got married, you’d have really stupid kids. I’m just saying.

777 Main Street
Fort Worth, Texas

Nurse #1: You better grab that. It’s leaning like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Nurse #2: Oh, I’ve never been to France.

339 Windermere Road
London, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Amanda

Account rep: Is this other elevator still broken?
Receptionist: Correct.
Account rep: But, but, isn’t that, like, a fire hazard?
Receptionist: Um, see those signs that say ‘In case of fire, do not use elevators’?
Account rep: Oh. Right.

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: glad she’s not a firefighter

Boss: Can you come help me with this Excel thing? I deleted something that I needed.
Admin: Okay. Well, you should just click “undo”.
Boss: What's “clickundo”?

Dayton, Oregon

Overheard by: glad to be in a different department

Boss: She’s just too crazy for me. She’s…what’s the word? Phonetic!
Associate: She sounds things out?

480 San Antonio
Mountain View, California

Office lady: This girl that was in the Paralympics has 1.5 arms and no legs below the knee. She won 5 medals in the games, and is an engineer.
Office guy: What? Like on a train?
Office lady: No… For BC Hydro, duh!

Vancouver
Canadia

Overheard by: LJ

Coworker: I got rear-ended over the weekend!
VP: In your car?

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: twoferrets