Coworker: I hope I don’t get molasses in my dog bite.
Niagara & West Ferry
Buffalo, New York
Coworker: I hope I don’t get molasses in my dog bite.
Niagara & West Ferry
Buffalo, New York
Cube dweller #1: So then “groom,” like the horse kind.
Cube dweller #2: Uh, okay, or like the husband.
Cube dweller #3: Or the thing you clean your kitchen with.
Cube dweller #2: Yeah, that's a “broom.”
Washington, DC
Overheard by: emc
Associate director: So I found myself on the floor, bleeding, and all I could think was, “Really? I just cut myself with spaghetti?”
Commonwealth Ave
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: cube rat
IT manager: So do you want to come and find me this afternoon? We can talk about that thing.
Receptionist: Sure, I'm having it a manicure at 2.30, we can do it after that.
IT manager: Okay, but won't you have to wait for your nails to dry?
Receptionist: Oh, am I going to have to touch something?
IT manager: No, don't worry, you won't have to touch anything.
London
England
VP: Are you pregnant?
Worker #1: No!
VP: I’m just asking because it seems like you get pregnant every two months.
Worker #2: Hey! You can’t ask people if they are pregnant!
VP: I didn’t ask her if she was pregnant.
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lady coworker #1 reading a website: Here it says, ‘Sleep is the best cure for a headache.’
Lady coworker #2: My boyfriend always says sex is the best cure for a headache… He’s lying to me!
University of Münster
Germany
Employee: I think I'm too aggressive.
Manager: It's like you have vomit of the mouth. I mean diarrhea of the mouth. Which I guess is like vomit of the butt.
Dallas, Texas
Co-worker #1: Looks like [Sara] broke her foot.
Co-worker #2: I think her footbones just buckled under the pressure.
1939 Dixie Highway
Fort Wright, Kentucky
Supervisor: Marlene*, I’m stuck in my chair again.
10105 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street North
St. Petersburg, Florida
Overheard by: Michael John
Employee on phone: Hold on, I’m having a heart attack. I’ll call you back.
213 NE 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida