Office girl #1: So, when you mail something to Washington, DC, what’s the city and what’s the state?
Office girl #2: Put DC as the state.
Office girl #1: Does that mean Washington is the city?
Utah
Office girl #1: So, when you mail something to Washington, DC, what’s the city and what’s the state?
Office girl #2: Put DC as the state.
Office girl #1: Does that mean Washington is the city?
Utah
Co-worker #1: Would it be wrong if we left to get breakfast?
Co-worker #2: Why would it be wrong?
Co-worker #1: Well, it’s only 9 o’clock.
Co-worker #2: So?
Co-worker #1: I don’t know. It seems like maybe we should wait a little bit.
Co-worker #2: No way! I’ve been here since 8:30. I’ve worked enough.
Co-worker #1: All right. Let’s go, then.
Co-worker #2: Hold on. I just painted my nails. Takes forever to dry.
350 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Customer on phone, about catalog CD: I will just shove it in real fast.
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: That's What She Said
Coworker: I've been so funny all day that it's not even funny.
Hawthorne, New York
Overheard by: evildead1971
Worker: Bob’s balls are hanging out of his shorts.
Manager: Yeah, he’s got real hangers.
Worker: You should tell him.
Manager: I like it. No one else can see it, and it’s his lunch break. Besides, you’ve been looking at his scrotum for the last ten minutes.
Balboa Park
San Diego, California
Overheard by: fellow worker sitting nearby
Customer #1: Does the Peaks Island Ferry go to Peaks Island?
Ticket agent: Yes.
Customer#1: Does it come back?
Customer #2: No, it’s the barge to Hades. It only goes one way.
Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal
Portland, Maine
Overheard by: Jeff Jenks
Co-worker #1: I think the pills of my dreams would allow me to eat whatever I wanted and never get above a size 4.
Co-worker #2: Those already exist. They’re called laxatives.
147 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Jess
Manager: Don’t send information; it just confuses me.
8787 Orion Place
Columbus, Ohio
Manager: What motivates you to do your best job possible?
Interviewee: Well, I don’t do anything half-assed… Yeah, I like to put my whole ass into everything I do.
1158 Howard Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Kirsten
Boss: No, kangaroo rats are not rodents! They're just mini kangaroos!
Maine
Overheard by: amused employee
