President: This is our IT department. Those people write new programs all day long.
Customer: Oh, so this is the Nerd Center!
1047 17th Avenue
Santa Cruz, California
President: This is our IT department. Those people write new programs all day long.
Customer: Oh, so this is the Nerd Center!
1047 17th Avenue
Santa Cruz, California
Coworker #1, whispering: They’re firing Lily* on Friday!
Lily, standing behind coworker #1: Why!! What did I do!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Law student intern #1, on first day: Wow, look, we get cubicles!
Law student intern #2: Oh my god! This is so cool. It's just like on The Office!
Vancouver
Canadia
Cubicle partner: it's like spilled milk under the bridge…
Manhattan, New York
Redneck high school kid checking out campus: Guantanamo Bay? Is that one of the places the bugs attack in Starship Troopers?
UT Campus
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: Flabbergasted Longhorn
Project Manager: I can’t get my numbers to balance with yours.
Budget Analyst: How much are you off by?
Project Manager: About a million.
5000 Ellin Road
Lanham, Maryland
Overheard by: Cantabile
Student: I hate going to the weight room. Those weights are heavy.
School
Texas
Overheard by: dan
Office girl #1: I wish Chinese places would deliver around here!
Office girl #2: They do. You have to pay a service fee but they will bring you food.
Office girl #1: But I don't live around here, so how does that help me?
Maryland
HR head: So, when's the, uh…I guess, “drop-dead date” for your baby?
Hugely pregnant admin: Uh…what? You mean the latest date before my doctor induces?
HR head: Yeah. The drop-dead date.
Hugely pregnant admin: Wow.
Phoenix, Arizona
Coworker: I just think young people don't have good work ethnics. (a couple minutes later) My grandfather was a very interesting man. I wrote a bibliography about him.
Saskatoon
Saskatchwan
Canadia
