Cube dweller #1: Hey, I’m a people person.
Cube dweller #2: What are you talking about? You’re a make-fun-of-people person!
1000 East 116th Street
Carmel, Indiana
Cube dweller #1: Hey, I’m a people person.
Cube dweller #2: What are you talking about? You’re a make-fun-of-people person!
1000 East 116th Street
Carmel, Indiana
Mailman: Is this the 3rd floor?
Receptionist: No, this is the 2nd floor.
Mailman: But isn't the next floor like the …4th floor?
Receptionist: No, that's the 3rd floor.
Mailman (confused): Yo, man, that's weird.
Richmond Street
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: front desk
Boss: Where’s [Justin]?
Employee: He’s up my ass…want to tickle his feet?
800 Livingston Avenue
North Brunswick, New Jersey
Coworker: Yeah, doing the Yoda voice in bed the other night wasn't received very well.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Peon: Hey, I can't look at our webpage without the browser crashing.
IT manager: Which browser?
Peon: Ff 4.
IT manager: What?
Peon: Firefox 4.
IT manager: What's a Firefox?
Peon: Uh, let's pretend I said IE.
South Morang
Australia
Boss: Why do you have a new BlackBerry?
Salesperson: Because I am awesome.
Boss: You don't even know how to use it, do you?
Salesperson: Uh… No.
Augusta, Georgia
QA agent: Can you remind the agents to put their comments in apprentices?
Team leader: In what?
QA agent: Apprentices. You know, the bracket things.
Team leader: Uhhh… Yeah, sure.
4 Mangrove Way
Montego Bay
Jamaica
Overheard by: Not an apprentice
Supervisor: So you and your brother have different fathers, then?
Worker: Yeah.
Supervisor: So you guys are related through your mom.
Worker: Naw, not really.
Supervisor: Wait, so how are you guys related, then?
Worker: I dunno. We’re just brothers.
3901 Via Oro Avenue
Long Beach, California
Overheard by: bored on first day of work
Network News Producer: Why do people live in trailers if they know a hurricane is likely to blow through?
CBS News
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY
Intern: So yeah, the first twenty minutes I was just sitting next to him in the breakroom I didn’t say a single word.
Engineer: Does he freak you out that much?
Intern: Well no, I just thought he didn’t speak any English.
Engineer: So you finally said something?
Intern: Yeah, I tried to make some small talk by asking what cubicle he sits in. But he spent the next 5-10 minutes trying to explain.
Engineer: He’s not that bad at English…
Intern: I don’t know. He kept asking what direction was North. By the time I made him point to it, I wished I never said anything. Seriously, what do cardinal directions have to do with your cubicle?
41131 Vincenti Court
Novi, Michigan