Student teacher #1: I have to write a unit on the book My Side of the Mountain.
Student teacher #2: What? Why are you teaching something called “mindset of a nun” to your kids?
Ford City, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Lyndsay
Student teacher #1: I have to write a unit on the book My Side of the Mountain.
Student teacher #2: What? Why are you teaching something called “mindset of a nun” to your kids?
Ford City, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Lyndsay
Developer: So we need to get those trees down before the rafters come back.
Underling: “Rafters”?
Developer: R-a-f-t-e-r-s. You know, like a hawk? They’re gonna nest in the trees if we don’t cut ’em down first.
Underling: Right. Raptors.
855 Capitolio Way
San Luis Obispo, California
Intern #1: Well, we got these power packs for our laptops. But how do we charge them?
Intern #2: Um…you plug it in the wall!
Intern #1: How was I supposed to know that?
300 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Employee with cancer: I'm bringing these files back.
Account executive: What…they don't allow files at the hospice?
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Alia
Office bimbette: So, my friend got me a Sudoku book, but I can’t start doing it yet because she has to send the Sudoku pencil. It has an eraser on the end — only Sudoku makes them that way.
Auckland
New Zealand
Overheard by: Sarah
Worker guy #1: I love names that are states. Or cities. Madison, Dakota, Georgia…
Worker guy #2: Jordan…
733 Third Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: the temp
Arrogant idiot: You see, the older you get, the more geometrically expensive your health insurance gets.
Stamford, Connecticut
Overheard by: my brain is dying
Co-worker: I just walked past the copy and fax machine area, and all the hair on my arms stood straight up like a science fiction movie!
640 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Chief of Plant Operations: We need to disconnect and then reconnect the cash registers from the parking booths. This is high priority.
IT: Huh? Why not just leave it connected?
700 State Drive
Los Angeles, California
Doctor's assistant to doctor: How do you spell “blood”?
Scottsdale, Arizona
