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
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
Boss: I would rather be dressed in chaps and a police cap at the Blue Oyster Bar than be subjected to the XYZ Company* auditors.
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: K67
Co-worker #1: [Aaron], you just don’t get it.
Co-worker #2: I’ve got two hemispheres working here, [Mike].
910 Lousiana Street
Houston, Texas
Teacher on phone: But [Matt], it’s just the sound of a gun. The audience won’t even see it!…Not even the sound effect?…Are you kidding me?…So, what, we’re not allowed to do Hamlet now because somebody has to die in the end?…I know they don’t use real swords; we aren’t using a real gun!…How is anyone supposed to die?
2155 Napier Avenue
Macon, Georgia
Accounting guy #1: Every big company is tired of printing paychecks.
Accounting guy #2: Tired of spending all that money.
Accounting guy #1: Tired of every 13 year old in the country being able to print those checks.
1600 Cantrell Road
Little Rock, Arkansas
Suit #1: Oh, fucking great. This is how– [Jon] is getting married. And I have to sign this stupid card along with everyone else like–
Suit #2: Wow, hostile much? We barely know him.
Suit #1: Oh, I know his fiancee quite…ugh, never mind.
71 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Intern hears all
Secretary on phone: Hi, I have tried twice now to establish myself as the main contact person for our firm with your company via your online customer service, and it still won’t change the name…Yes, and I’m considering legally changing my name to [Nathan Blumenthal] because apparently that would be easier than getting it changed with your printing service.
19 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois