Manager: Ow, shit shit fuck shit.
Peon: What’s wrong?
Manager: I accidentally ironed my arm this morning, and now it hurts every time I touch anything with it.
1180 Jefferson Road
Rochester, New York
Overheard by: Cube Farm Worker #5823457
Manager: Ow, shit shit fuck shit.
Peon: What’s wrong?
Manager: I accidentally ironed my arm this morning, and now it hurts every time I touch anything with it.
1180 Jefferson Road
Rochester, New York
Overheard by: Cube Farm Worker #5823457
Manager, about getting her nails done: I wanna get just the tip red, I see lots of girls with the tip.
Annoying coworker: Just the tip?
Coworker: Wanna play a game called “just the tip”? Just for a second, to see how it feels.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Can we go crash a wedding now?
Male coworker: I don't understand gentrification. I'm from Idaho.
Chicago, Illinois
Older receptionist: I can’t believe they’re making such a big fuss over Tom Brady’s baby. I mean, you know he’s going to be a great dad. He’ll pay for everything. That kid is going to be very well-endowed.
Secretary: Uh… Right…
200 Clarendon Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: secretariat
Coworker: Here it is: “Allen Ginsberg was a 60s era poet, most notable for the poem Howl.” Oh. I thought it was about werewolves, or vampires or something…
Long Island, New York
Boss: So when I format the hard drive, it erases the operating system too?
Worker: Yes.
Boss: Oh…
3937 Ivywood Lane
Pueblo, Colorado
Senior research analyst in the elevator: Someone’s all cologned up in here.
Team leader: I think most of us are. We’re a good smelling team.
4833 Rugby Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland
Nepotistic hire: How do I google?
Knoxville, Tennessee
Engineer to operations guy: You're all evil in this department. (points at administrative assistant) Especially you, you're the leader.
Administrative assistant: What?
Manhattan, New York
Admin on phone: I’m sorry I just wanted to double check that you received it. I am a bit of a wigger.
Pause.
Admin: Wigger? You know, I wig out about stuff.
Pause.
Admin: No, I don’t know another meaning to the word wigger, but I guess it’s bad since your’re telling me not to say it.
333 Earle Boulevard
Uniondale, New York