HR rep: Oh, yeah…I was going to do that. But then I got distracted by the festive donkeys.
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
HR rep: Oh, yeah…I was going to do that. But then I got distracted by the festive donkeys.
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
HR manager: Why does she keep calling it a guidebook? It's an employee handbook! A guidebook is for when you go to the Cayman Islands and need to find a donkey!
Norwalk, Connecticut
Sales rep to HR: I'm sick of people floory-ing me!
Rockville, Maryland
Overheard by: I'm not sick of it
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
HR coordinator: Ugh, last thing I need Monday morning is a stack of papers from “miz thaaaaang” in marketing.
Finance manager: I try to limit my contact with miz thaaaaang as much as possible.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Observer
HR boss to intern: I need your screwing skills now!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: HR Manager
HR: What we need to determine about her mistake is, is this fuckup a rare occurrence or is this the type of thing we should come to expect from her.
VP: You mean like the normal run of the mill disasters…
HR: Exactly.
75 Washington Avenue
Portland, Maine
Overheard by: brian brinegar
Employee: I wanted to know where the line for disgruntled employees starts.
HR Secretary: Right behind me.
500 Federal Road
Brookfield, Connecticut
Operator, over walkie system: Shoes, you have a call on line 3-4, shoes, line 3-4.
Human resources worker: Hey was that a call for HR Erin?
Operator: No. That was a call for shoes.
Gainesville, Florida
Overheard by: Spizzy
HR employee, eating jelly beans: I've segregated out the black ones because they're gross.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
