Gripes

Marketing exec: If we didn’t have to spend so much time telling you our requirements, you could be done with the code already!

228 East 86th Street
New York, NY

The creators of this site were just on The Brian Lehrer Show (listen here).

As the producer explained to the host who we were and what we’re about, she handed him some printouts of site quotes and ended with: …and don’t say fucktard, obviously.

1 Centre Street
New York, NY

Boss: Well, apparently he has a girlfriend who may be going through cancer treatments. But you can still be friends with him, it’s good to have connections.
Secretary: What? No! I don’t need any more friends. She has cancer? God, I can’t compete with that, forget it.

321 Walnut Street
Green Cove Springs, Florida

Co-worker #1: Is there an ice cream truck outside?
Co-worker #2: I would be very surprised.
Co-worker #1: Are you sure?
Co-worker #2: There’s a trash truck outside…
Co-worker #1: …Oh, it’s your radio.
Co-worker #2: You mean the Bach Concerto?

130 West Canal Street
Winooski, Vermont

Overheard by: Kelly G.

Registered nurse: Damn, all my patients have peed! And they're all dialysis patients!
Tech: Damn their kidneys for working!

Hospital
Bowling Green, Kentucky

Office woman, annoyed her desk was rearranged: He keeps putting office supplies in my private area!

Jacksonville, Florida

Company president/daughter of founder: Does the the mail really need to go out so early? I have a hard time getting in here by 10.

Mesquite, Nevada

Overheard by: Didn't win the genetic lottery

Historian: Why are we in academia?
Bio-chemist: Because we weren't good enough to join the circus.

Oxford
England

Manager, in frustration: I have cough drops, tea, antibiotics, cough medicine, and I'm even wearing a panty liner in case I cough too hard.

Lawrenceville, Georgia

Female sales rep #1: You know the one where you bend over and get it right in the spinal cord?
Female sales rep #2: Yeah, I know… kinda surprising.
Female sales rep #1: I'm all bent over and he's like “don't move, I don't wanna put it in the wrong spot!”

Delran, New Jersey

Overheard by: Bruce Banner