Gripes

Reporter: I can’t get away from effin’ Bernie Smith*. Every time the man farts, the attorney general calls me!

Newsroom
Ocean County, New Jersey

Overheard by: inothernews

Technician: Man, I gotta go grab a smoke. I’ve been upstairs mixing chemo for hours!

427 Victor Street
Lincolnton, North Carolina

Overheard by: Suzette Truesdell

Engineer: Excuse me, those Splenda packets are for our department only. You’re going to have to pay me for the two that you stole.

2525 West 190th Street
Torrance, California

Coworker: I can’t believe they raised the price of their chicken salads! I mean, chicken is, like, the bologna of meats!

1400 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio

Co-worker #1: I pretty much hate that stupid nursing consultant.
Co-worker #2: I know. Me too.
Co-worker #1: She’s so phony. It’s ’cause she’s Southern.
Co-worker #2: I know! I hate Southerners! And I’m not even black!
Co-worker #1: Uh…what?
Co-worker #2: Well, you know. The slave thing. Don’t you hate her because of the slave thing?
Co-worker #1: Uh, no.

100 West Clarendon Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona

Photographer: You can’t just leave and not tell anyone. You guys left and no one was here to help.
First assistant: Look, I’m sick of you bitching at me about this petty bullshit. Don’t talk to me unless you’ve got something important to say.
Second assistant: Mom and Dad are fighting again.

2616 Industrial Row Road
Troy, Michigan

Boss: There’s pizza in the back room for everyone in appreciation of your hard work!
Employee #1: Hey, Jen*, can you save me a slice? I can’t leave my desk right now.
Employee #2: Sure, I’ll bring two back. There should be enough for two slices per person.
Employee #3: You know, I work harder than the rest of you all combined; therefore, I should get the most fuckin’ pizza. Does anyone else here work as hard as me? I don’t fuckin’ think so. So that means that I get more pizza. I don’t want to see anyone eating more fuckin’ pizza than me.
Employee #2: So, Meredith*, what kind of pizza did you want?
Employee #1: Um, I think I’ll just… stick with my yogurt… Thanks.

570 Worcester Road
Framingham, Massachusetts

Sales Rep: This is what happens when you have an idiot like me doing this shit.

435 Metroplex Drive
Nashville, Tennessee

Boss: Hey, my mouse arrow is reversed on the screen.
Worker: What…how?
Boss: If I go this way, it goes that way…Oh, never mind, I was holding it upside down.

10199 Riverford Road
Lakeside, California

Executive secretary: Well, we might be a scent-free workplace, but we are certainly not a stink-free workplace.

Topeka, Kansas

Overheard by: Denise