A customer is on speakerphone.
Customer: Which one is the spacebar?
Co-worker: How can you not know where the spacebar is?
Customer: I’m not good with computers.
Co-worker: But you’ve used a typewriter before, haven’t you?
Customer: Yeah, so?
460 Hillside Avenue
Needham, Massachusetts
Overheard by: S. Griffin
Male employee to female employee: It’s like you’re stuck in a really bad version of The Devil Wears Prada, except this time the devil wears Lane Bryant stretch pants…
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: At Least I Wear H&M…
Chief technology officer: Can’t we find someone else to do it?!
495 Circle 85
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: Lizerati
Writer: It sounds like my worst nightmare. Isn’t it just Samuel L. Jackson yelling at people for two hours? Nope, I’m not seeing that.
2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington
VP Research: The client would like us to find a creative way to solve the problem.
Field Manager: I am tired of looking for the solution to this problem; let’s start looking for someone to blame instead…
85 E Street
South Portland, Maine
Overheard by: brian brinegar
Fashionista: We live in the dumbest world on the planet.
1212 6th Avenue
New York, New York
Sales rep to HR: I'm sick of people floory-ing me!
Rockville, Maryland
Overheard by: I'm not sick of it
CEO to board: This is too complicated for you. The lawyer and myself are like eagles flying high above you. You wouldn’t understand.
Board member: Yes, but remember — we can shoot you down.
4000 Old Seward Highway
Anchorage, Alaska
Overheard by: Ataqun
HR clerk: Maureen* broke another chair. Should I order her another chair designed for a person over three hundred pounds, or should I order an even stronger chair?
Manager: No! I am going to tell the maintenance guys to put her desk up on blocks! Then, I am going to tell Maureen that her job description has changed! She is now required to stand up to do her job!
[manager leaves]
HR clerk: Well, it is not going to be me that tells him that one of the toilets in the women’s restroom is broken.
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
Receptionist: You should use tap water instead of Poland Spring to make coffee.
Secretary: You make coffee your way, and we’ll make it our way.
Receptionist: How much do each of those jugs cost?
Secretary: What? Look, just…The water is brown and it smells bad.
Receptionist: The water is not brown and it does not smell bad.
Secretary: Well, you’re entitled to your opinion.
Receptionist: Since when is a known fact an opinion?
113 University Place
New York, NY
