Cubicle partner: it's like spilled milk under the bridge…
Manhattan, New York
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
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
