Boss: By the way, I changed a lot of your code, so if it breaks, that’s why.
5720 Green Circle Drive
Minnetonka, 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
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
