Gripes

Asian boss on phone: Where are you at right now? Oh, Miami?! I hate the mosquitoes there! They bite me like a sausage!

11020 Rush Street
Los Angeles, California

Broker #1: Why is she laughing?
Broker #2: She already told you — she thinks it’s funny to buy gag candy and make everyone in the office fart.

Broker #1 laughs.

Broker #2: I mean, she’s so young. We all want to kill the other people in the office and she just wants to make them fart.
Broker #1: Look at her, she’s still laughing.
Broker #2: Ah, youth. All they do is giggle.

399 Park Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: LH

Office grunt: Well, I asked for the guys to fix the electricity, but they built a wall in my bathroom!

Paris
France

IT Consultant Guy: You gotta stop answering the phones all sexy. No one else can concentrate.

2620 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, North Carolina

Overheard by: Office Kitty

Technical support worker on phone: I am not a robot!

Auckland
New Zealand

Overheard by: RockJonny

30-something woman: Are you going to the baby shower?
20-something girl: No. Being in a room full of women talking about babies is my worst nightmare.

401 Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas

Overheard by: athens

Male supervisor who drives a PT Cruiser: My car’s as much of a chick magnet as me walking into a room without a shirt on making farting noises with my armpit.

473 Ridge Road
Dayton, New Jersey

Overheard by: office peon

Male interviewer: So where are you from?
Female applicant: I’m from here, but all my family is from Vietnam.
Male interviewer: Yeah? My ex-wife is from Vietnam. Ever since that war over there, I haven’t really been a fan of wars, ya know?

Doc Green’s, Cumberland Boulevard
Atlanta, Georgia

Boss, walking from cube to cube: Hello, Amanda*, how's it going?
Amanda: Getting raped with work, Bill.* You should know that.
Boss: Don't worry, I am raping all of my employees this week.

Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: i'm next in line

Co-worker #1: I have to crawl under this desk so much my knees hurt.
Co-worker #2: Oh, so that’s why you got promoted.

2105 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, California