Gripes

Guy peon: Haven’t you seen the commercials?
Lady peon: I don’t pay attention to them. I’m so one-dimensional.

745 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Office Manager: There’s a time and a place for shoulder massages and it’s not here and now.
Employee: It’s not a massage. I was rubbing my hands up her.

Aldine House, New Bailey Street
Salford, Manchester
UK

Sorority girl #1: I’m just worried we aren’t going to have enough money.
Sorority girl #2: No, we wrote a letter to Oprah.

Auburn, Alabama

Overheard by: frightened grad student

Biller: Um, you know maintenance guys are working in our bathrooms and there is a line of people waiting in the hallway bathroom? Could you, like, do something about it?
Receptionist: Uh, sure, I’ll get right on that for you.
Biller: I’ll just go back to my desk and pee in my trash can.

1200 Princess Anne Street
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Co-worker slams down the phone and says: Okay, it’s official, you have to be retarded to work in our accounting office.

187 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

Overheard by: Janet

Coworker packing her stuff as she quits: Jesus will pay my unemployment! I cannot work around you, the wicked!

Park Avenue South
New York, New York

Account manager: Do you get the monthly reports and messages?
Office worker: No, I don’t get anything. I’m so lonely.

409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut

Office manager: Tess* is not going to be in for a few days. Her mother died.
Boss: Why does everything always happen to me?

Hackensack, New Jersey

Overheard by: Gary

Employee: Rat balls are nasty!

Raytheon
Raleigh, North Carolina

Overheard by: taaj

Cube dweller: Ow, my pancreas!

30 North La Salle Street
Chicago, Illinois