Manager: Yeah, my uncle owns a car lot — he’s a Jew.
Worker: Oh, your uncle is Jewish?
Manager: No, he just rips people off.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: She did not just say that!
Manager: Yeah, my uncle owns a car lot — he’s a Jew.
Worker: Oh, your uncle is Jewish?
Manager: No, he just rips people off.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: She did not just say that!
Girl at desk: My friend told me about how they paid two grand to freeze the stem cells from her son’s umbilical cord so it could save his life or something later.
Guy at desk: Why don’t they just have him drink the fluid out of the umbilical cord?
Male coworker: Orrr they could just put the stuff in the freezer.
3111 S. Range Line Road
Joplin, Missouri
Office clerk: Wait, this doesn’t look right.
Manager: It has to be right -it’s highlighted.
Office clerk: Maybe someone highlighted the wrong thing, because that’s not right.
Manager: I highlighted it.
Office clerk: Well, I think it may be wrong.
Manager: It can’t be wrong. It’s highlighted.
5th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
Overheard by: Saw the Light
Manager: Okay everyone, here are some ways you can spot a shoplifter–
Associate: Just look for someone that looks like a Gypsy.
Manager: That’s really not appropriate.
Associate: I’m telling you, they’re all over Italy!
3200 S. Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, Nevada
Overheard by: Cathie
Suit #1: The RFA for the 'o'9-'o'10 year are…
Suit #2: “O'9-'o'10?” You mean “'o'9-10.”
Suit #1: There is another zero in 2010.
Boss: Yeah, 'o'9-10'o'!
Suit #1 & #2: “10'o”?!
Boss: What? Isn't that right?
Suit #2: No, he meant double 'o'9 and 'o'10.
Suit #1: I hate my life.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Overheard by:
CIO: That’s okay, I had typed out several comments on how stupid this was. However, I deleted them when I realized you might dig into the history and find out I was the idiot who requested them.
Peon: A CIO with a sense of humor is a dangerous thing.
2301 Maguire Boulevard
Columbia, Missouri
Coworker #1: He’s not gay, he’s a pedophile.
Coworker #2: There’s a difference?
Hickson Road
Sydney
Australia
Overheard by: H.
Law student #1: I can’t believe the parents in that case named their kid Adolph!
Law student #2: Uh… That case was from 1850…
Law student #1: So?
699 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: TAJ
Co-worker on phone: Uh yes, this is [Brett Myers} with the Mortgage Company. It’s Wednesday, 10:30 AM…I’m sorry! It’s just that…well, you sounded like a voicemail voice.
1350 Deming Way
Middleton, Wisconsin
Woman: I have never heard such idiotness in my life. I’ve never heard it.
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY
