Gossip

Cube rat, describing boss: Boy, he sure has a big berth.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Coworker #1 about coworker #2: Married man smelling good, that's not right. (pause) Something's going on.

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Overheard by: that cologne doesn't smell good, so there's no danger

Woman to friend: I'm just saying, when she find out he lives with his wife… Gurl, she ain't gonna like it.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Lee

Manager: Do you want to hear the rumors about layoffs and so on? Well, what I've been hearing is that things will be quiet for a while.
(flash of lightning followed by huge ominous boom of thunder)
Manager: No, I mean it!

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Coworker #1: She doesn't look that old! She must have had some crazy plastic surgery.
Coworker #2: Or maybe she just emerges from underneath their beds at night and eats children's souls.

Manhattan, New York

Office worker #1: She has a degree from Harvard and another from Yale.
Office worker #2: Well, if she's so smart, why is she working for the government?

Pentagon
Washington, DC

Receptionist #1: So she got a new hair do.
Receptionist #2: Yes, braids, is it inappropriate to comment on them?
Receptionist #1: We could tell her that her hair looks…ethnic?

Washington, DC

Overheard by: Anne

Superior #1: So, Joanne wasn’t umm… working out so she left… I shouldn’t say any more.
Inferior #1: She didn’t come to work naked or something?!
Superior #2: [Responds to quizzical looks from others.] That comment has a context!

Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Overheard by: Ben A. Fit

Coworker #1: He couldn’t get it up?
Coworker #2: No, he couldn’t get hard.
Coworker #1: Wow, I can at least get hard.
Coworker #2: It was his first shoot. They gave him Viagra and energy drinks and the girl sucked and rubbed him for an hour but he couldn’t get hard. Then the director fired him and asked if anyone if could keep it hard for two hours.
Coworker #1: Did you volunteer?
Coworker #2: No, I can stay hard for an hour but not two. But a cameraman did. I felt bad for the girl, she was just 18 and it was her first shoot and the cameraman was like 60.
Coworker #1: Damn. I wish I hadn’t called in sick.

Porn Shoot
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: she was ugly

Jen: Today is Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday.
Beth: Really? I guess he’ll be going out to dinner with Gisele Bundchen. Oh wait, they broke up, didn’t they?
Jen: […]

Sylvan Way
Parsippany, New Jersey

Overheard by: Karen