Gripes

Scientist at desk to tech in lab: Just because you want to see hot firemen doesn’t mean you have to set off the alarm!

20925 Crossroads Circle
Waukesha, Wisconsin

Employee: Everything about my life sucks right now! I need to go home, and I need to have a shower, and I need to get laid by someone who knows what he’s doing for once, and then I need to go to bed.

Sackville
New Brunswick
Canadia

Overheard by: Mel

Office manager in transplant center, slamming down phone: How dare he call me about heart when I have liver all over my desk?!

Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Wendy Booz

Boss: You make too many mistakes! You’re not very consistent at your work.
Cube dweller: Well, you can’t be consistent all the time!

Liverpool
England

Trashy coworker: Don’t ya hate when you’re on the rag and your husband rolls over in the night with a boner, wantin’ to poke ya?

Franklin Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Violet White

Female TA: When I went upstairs I saw this cake being thrown across the room.
Male TA: A cake?
Female TA: Yeah, Sue* thought they were throwing it at her.
Male TA: If I had a cake, I’d probably throw it at Sue… But then, that’s the kind of guy I am.
Female TA: No, it’s the type of woman Sue is. It’s impossible not to throw cake at her!

Bexhill College
England

Overheard by: I educate your kids…

Customer: Do you guys have any rooms available?
Front desk: No, sir. Unfortunately, we are completely sold out. If you like, I can give you the number of a few hotels in the area that have availability.
Customer, leaving and giving the finger: Does it look like I have a goddamn phone on me?
Front desk: I’d be more than happy to call them for you, sir.
Customer: Fuck you.
Front desk: Okay, sir. Have a wonderful night.

Elmira, New York

CSR: I need, like, four more arms and three more eyeballs. That way I could do more than one thing at a time.

Tempe, Arizona

Receptionist #1: What’s the forecast for next Sunday?
Receptionist #2: Sixty-nine and sunny.
Receptionist #1: Sixty-nine? That’s all I get for my birthday?

221 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

IT guy: Someone better jump out of a cake later and scream, ‘Gender surprise’!

Silverlake, California