General Idiocy

Co-worker: Well, it’s an intermittent problem that won’t reoccur until it reoccurs.

333 North Meridian Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Overheard by: fransen comes alive

Writer: What the heck is going on with you?
Designer: Why?
Writer: Because I messaged you like three times.
Designer: Oh. I didn’t see it.
Writer: Thank god I wasn’t sending you my suicide note.
Designer: You would do that through Yahoo!?
Writer: I don’t know. Maybe. Is it too informal?
Designer: Kind of. I mean like print it out or something. Then somebody could drop it in my box.
Writer: What font would I even use?

16430 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona

Overheard by: Miel

Boss: Oh, one other thing. I didn’t think the Sunday [product] was very strong.
Worker: Well, what would you have done differently?
Boss: I’m not really sure…I just think we needed something different there.
Worker: Like what?
Boss: Well, that’s really the question, isn’t it?

120 West First Avenue
Mesa, Arizona

Employee: I think I’ve done pretty well, considering when I came here I didn’t know anything.

31 Park of Commerce Way
Savannah, Georgia

Producer: So, here is everything you need for the meeting.
Account Person: Okay. Did you get a chance to make the changes we talked about?
Produer: What changes?
Account Person: The changes that were brought up in the call. I talked about them in the conference wrap-up email.
Producer: I didn’t get a conference wrap-up email.
Account Person: Well I know, I didn’t send it to you yet.

466 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

Applicant: Boy, there were a lot of errors in that letter. I hope I wasn’t supposed to correct them. I was just supposed to type the letter the way it is, right?

18 North County Street
Waukegan, Illinois

Worker on cell: Sorry about that. I had a pencil in my hand and when I
put the phone to my head, I stabbed myself in the face.

1950 Summit Park Drive
Orlando, Florida

Co-worker #1: Yeah, some guy just fell from the 72nd down onto the 6th floor.
Co-worker #2: Is he dead?

350 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY

Admin on phone: Hi [Jeff], I’ve sent you 4 emails and left you 3 messages. Today is my birthday. What I really want for my birthday, more than anything else, is for you to call me back and answer my questions. Thanks. Bye.

10550 N Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, California

Co-worker: Is these discs recorderable overable?

Rubislaw House
Anderson Drive
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
UK