Georgia

You're a Good Speaker If Even Half Your Audience Takes Your Advice

Employee #1: So this presentation on customer service was just so stupid! The speaker kept saying that to diffuse tense situations, you should reiterate back to the customer why they're upset to show that you understand their point of view! I totally disagree. I hate when that happens! That's just so dumb.
Employee #2: So if I understand this correctly, Alan*, you think it's a bad idea to summarize why a customer is unhappy and restate that back to them.
Employee #1: Yes, exactly!

Atlanta, Georgia

1PM Lunch

Co-worker: So I was at the deli, and I asked for a third of a pound of meat. I asked the lady twice. She then gave me 1.5 pounds of meat. I said, “Excuse me, this isn’t a third of a pound.” Then she said,
“Yes, it is.” Then I said, “No, it’s not.” So then she turns and asks her co-worker behind the deli counter how much a third of a pound is, and her co-worker replies, “Oh, a third of a pound is .75.”…This is why I hate the South.

115 Perimeter Center Place
Atlanta, Georgia

9AM It’s Going to End Badly Today

Co-worker #1: My corner is dark and quiet.
Co-worker #2: You should move over here.
Co-worker #3: Just make sure you don’t wear Stevie Wonder glasses over at your corner.

6000 Windward Parkway
Alpharetta, Georgia

Why Was He Playing with His Instrument in the Closet All by Himself?

CSR on phone: Hello? What? Your son popped his G-string on his instrument? … Was it on his personal instrument?

Duluth, Georgia

Overheard by: Yellow

But Argentina Keeps Cockblocking

Extremely excited boss: I know! They're great! We're looking to penetrate Brazil!

Atlanta, Georgia

Tomorrow We'll Work on Buttons

Boss to new sales rep: And here is your laptop with the carrying case. The computer just goes in the bag like this and then you use the Velcro straps to strap it in. You're familiar with Velcro, right? You just push the two sides together and… (proceeds to demonstrate)

Norcross, Georgia

I’m Partial to the Hysterical Praying

In a crowded elevator, everyone is quiet except for the clunking of the elevator.

Employee: That was a new sound.
Manager: My favorite is the screaming.

5720 Peachtree Parkway
Norcross, Georgia

That’s More of a Lamb’s Name

Super-rich boss’s wife: So you know how we always call my husband God?
Employees at luncheon: [Puzzled silence] Super-rich boss’s wife: Seriously, you know how we call him God?
Employees at luncheon: [Silence] Super-rich boss’s wife: Well, I bought him a horse! And we’re going to call it Jesus! Isn’t that hilarious?

2725 Henry Street
Augusta, Georgia

Seem Like There’s a Lot You Don’t Know

Engineer #1: Congratulations, I heard you got married this week.
Engineer #2: Thanks, man. It was one of the best days of my life.
Engineer #1: Aren’t you African though? I didn’t know African people got married.

6575 The Corners Pkwy
Norcross, Georgia

1PM Lunch

Chick #1: I have like 3 pairs of shoes in the trunk of my car.
Chick #2: Oh really?
Chick #1: Yeah, like one pair of tennis shoes ’cause you never know when you need them.
Chick #2: I keep all kinds of stuff in the trunk of my car for that. You never know when you need that stuff, if you know what I’m talking about
Guy: I keep my wife in the trunk of my car.

Dead silence for the rest of the elevator ride.

3350 Riverwood Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: n-ro

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