Gripes

Config Manager Guy: It’s like the island of misfit toys over there.
DBA: I don’t want to be in support, I want to be a dentist.

2202 N. Westshore Boulevard
Tampa, Florida

Employee: It’s called toxic shock syndrome. We have to hurry and finish this meeting.

23133 Outer Drive
Allen Park, Michigan

Manager: Yeah, in order for me to work it out, I had to bend over backwards and slap some K-Y jelly on it.

Radio Shack
California

Overheard by: Stephen

Agent #1: I am really upset today about something I saw on the History Channel…
Agent #2: Was it about Nazis?
Agent #1: No, it was about the universe. There are theories out there that say the universe will end in about five billion years.
Agent #2: And that upsets you? Why?
Agent #1: Well, if it is all just going to up and end one day, then what’s the point of me doing all this paperwork bullshit?
Agent #2: Oh, I know, it really gets to me too, sometimes.

Washington, DC

Peon: I’m going to be on a jury! I really hope I get a murder trial, since I’m in the city. When I lived in the country, I had to be on a jury for this guy who hit a cow. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to sit through this!’

351 West Camden Street
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Temp-tation

Male worker: There’s already been a killing over a PlayStation 3.
Female worker who waited in line but didn’t get one: Well, at least he got to play it for a while!

Austin, Texas

Overheard by: The Temp

Preggers coworker: Call maintenance and tell them to get the air conditioning fixed! You tell them I’m pregnant and I’m in heat up here!

Front Road
Kingston, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Neil Davall

Fund raising exec: We keep hearing about these people who die, and we sit around waiting to hear what they’re going to give to us, and it turns out they’ve left all their money to the crippled children!

Non-profit organization
Washington, DC

Female coworker: I think I’m going to go home. I’m not feeling well.
Gay coworker: I hope it’s not contagious.
Female coworker: No. It’s… woman problems. I don’t think you’ll get infected.
Gay coworker: You’d be surprised.

14th Street and Rhode Island Avenue
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Suprised

Designer: It’s National Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Writer: I know.
Designer: You already knew? And you didn’t tell me? I should smack you.

312 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio