9AM Stay in My Cube Today

Auditorium worker: …she has shelves full of them. If you visit her she goes on and on about all her Hummels. And for each Hummels she has some goddamn story to go along with it. Bores you to death. That’s why I don’t go over there.

700 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: 2qrs

Posted on May 21, 2021
Employees, Gossip, Gripes, Minnesota

She’ll Do Anything to Boost The Simple Life‘s Ratings

Salesman: Hello, Nicole*.
Receptionist, collapsing on the floor: Oh my god! I’m throwing myself off the building!

8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Temporary Receptionist

Posted on May 10, 2021
Gripes, Maryland, Receptionists

That’s More of a Pliers Job

Worker #1: Your friend came over. She wanted to borrow a screwdriver.
Worker #2: Why, to shut her fucking mouth?

3600 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, Nevada

Overheard by: Frank Grimes

Posted on May 3, 2021
Comebacks, Coworkers, Gossip, Gripes

Clinton Was a Rhodes Scholar, and He Still Picks up Trash on Friday Nights

Salesman: It’s this whole ‘No Child Left Behind, let’s get all the kids to graduate college’ bullshit. If everybody goes to college, who’s gonna do the work? Huh? Who’s gonna dig the ditches? Who’s gonna pick up the trash? We don’t need that. We need kids to drop out of school and do the work.

Birch Street
Brea, California

Posted on March 31, 2021
California, Crazies, General Idiocy, Gripes, Questions, Sales

4PM Call [the Client]

Secretary: [The client] keeps calling and asking for me. And you know what? The next time he does that, I’m going to tell him that you lied to him.
Boss: What? Why?
Secretaty: Because you tell him you’re going to do all these things for him, and you don’t!
Boss: That’s because he’s an idiot!

527 West Jefferson Street
Louisville, Kentucky