General Idiocy

Manager: …because sometimes we get communications via electronic sending, sometimes through the telephone system.

650 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: Jeff Anderson

Coworker #1: Where were you all day?
Coworker #2: Oh, I had to take an Excel class today.
Coworker #1: Oh, do you do any other types of dance?

Reading, Pennsylvania

Coworker #1: I'm on this new diet.
Coworker #2: Oh yeah?
Coworker #1: Yeah, it's this diet where if you aren't hungry you don't eat.

Bloomington, Minnesota

Boss: By the way, I changed a lot of your code, so if it breaks, that’s why.

5720 Green Circle Drive
Minnetonka, Minnesota

Coworker, about botched client presentation: His learning curve is big. He'll make the same mistakes six times before he gets it, but after that sixth time, he'll never make that same mistake again!

Parsippany, New Jersey

Co-worker: If someone is from Puerto Rico, do you say that they’re Mexican? Or Hispanic?

150 East 55th Street
New York, NY

Employee: Oh, I’ve had their Mandarin Chicken Salad, but I didn’t like it. Then again, I don’t like Mandarins.

711 Third Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: Lolito

Boss: There’s no ‘I’ in ‘unity’! Wait… There’s no ‘me’ in ‘team’!
Employees: [Laughter.]

300 East Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois

Secretary #1, talking about the real-life Napa Valley Halloween murder case: The police used his DNA and the kind of cigarettes he smoked to catch the murderer.
Secretary #2: Just like on CSI!

School
Hamilton, Ohio

Overheard by: TV has the best ideas

IT guy: The serial number is T as in ‘Thomas,’ X as in ‘zebra…’

Ephrata, Washington

Overheard by: Lost in Space