General Idiocy

Coworker #1: Another thing I recommend for you website is breadcrumb navigation, which…
Coworker #2: You know, now they have GPS.

Santa Barbara, California

Manager: Here's the office supply cabinet. Do you need anything?
First-day-on-the-job peon: Oh yeah! A pad of paper. I like to take dubious notes.

Cleveland, Ohio

Peon #1: Yeah, I got the printer from this place that sells refurbished computers. Homeless people do it.
Peon #2: Ahhh, homeless people. What can’t they do?

12 Desbrosses Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: Grace

CSR on phone: So, we’ve set you an appointment with the specialist. His name is Allen*… and Allen is a guy.

Atlanta, Georgia

Intern: You’d expect building 233 to be right next to 230, but 230 is, like, totally inside and 233 is totally, like, right here.

NASA Ames Research Center
California

Overheard by: shyinvisiblegirl

Coworker #1: Did it rain while you were in Chicago?
Coworker #2: Nope.
Coworker #1: Oh, that’s good. I saw on the Weather Channel that it was raining in Virginia, and I got worried.

42 South Street
Hopkinton, Massachusetts

Field Services Manager: I can’t believe he brought up all those issues in front of [the client]. He made us look even more inept than we already sounded!

85 E Street
South Portland, Maine

Overheard by: Brian Brinegar

Cubicle dweller on phone: Watching movies is my version of speed reading.

Houston, Texas

Overheard by: notaduhme

Employee: I think I'm too aggressive.
Manager: It's like you have vomit of the mouth. I mean diarrhea of the mouth. Which I guess is like vomit of the butt.

Dallas, Texas

Project manager: I just plop on the best places I can plop on the calendars.

Chattanooga, Tennessee