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
Deskie #1: What’s that smell? Sulfur? Rotten eggs?
Deskie #2: I have it figured out: It’s Halloween, and all these girls are walking around with nothing covering areas which haven’t been exposed in public since last Halloween.
Deskie #1: I don’t get why that is relevant.
Front desk, Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Overheard by: Not A Deskie
Bimbette employee: I mean, like, if you gave Thomas Jefferson the Internet, he totally wouldn’t have freed the slaves.
Department store
New Hartford, New York
Overheard by: Jenn
