General Idiocy

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

Boss: Fuckin A, my head is still up my ass.

St. Louis County, Missouri

Overheard by: crackkitty

Blonde coworker: But that's the problem with this country, people are lazy now, never put any thought or effort into anything. They're sloppy. Like, some guy passed a bank teller a “this is a holdup” note on the back of his damn pay stub from his job. I can't respect that kind of stupidity.
Manager: You know what? You would be a really good criminal. I mean that as a compliment.
Blonde coworker: I know, right? It's almost scary. I'd never get caught.

Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Not sure I want to sit by her anymore

Frustrated manager: So just take that and put it in the bitch! I mean, bin. Put it in the bin.

University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario

Overheard by: Hired to do Bitch-Work