Worker #1: Smell my poncho.
Worker #2: No.
Worker #1: Smell my poncho.
Worker #2: That’s not a poncho, that’s a dry cleaning bag.
Worker #1: It’s a poncho.
Worker #2: It’s a dry cleaning bag with a hood. It’s not a real poncho.
Worker #1: It is so a real poncho. It’s blue.
Worker #2: It’s a dry cleaning bag.
Worker #1: It’s blue.
Worker #2: It’s a–
Worker #1: –It has arm holes.
Worker #2: Jeff*, it’s a dry cleaning bag with a hood, and it smells like cat piss.
Boston, Massachusetts
Coworker on phone: Why do you need to know what type of printer I have?…Well, I guess I could read the name of the printer to you off of the printer, if you suggest that… Here’s the name written right here. It’s F then U, C. Are you writing this down? K and then Y. Then finally O, U…Hello, hello?
4175 Central Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana
Secretary #1: That was a funny email you sent earlier; I couldn’t
stop cracking up.
Secretary #2: Hey, I just try to make you all laugh.
Intern: For you to make them laugh all they have to do is look at
your face.
28 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Male employee: And the worst thing is that we’re not allowed to do anything to stop another attack. No profiling so we don’t offend someone’s religion. To hell with that!
Piedmont, South Carolina
Overheard by: Ape
Guy reading note: That's his handwriting? It looks like a retarded fourth grader writing with his left foot.
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Guy Who Does His Hair at Work
Student #1: I thought Dan* hated it when you used the word ‘retarded.’
Student #2: No, Jen* is retarded, Dan is gay.
6450 South Fiddlers Green Circle
Greenwood Village, Colorado
Overheard by: Toddd
Manager: Why do they send so much of this stock? It’s never gonna sell. What bunch of arseholes thought this up at head office?
Peon: This is really getting to you, isn’t it? I get the feeling you applied for a job there, and they turned you down.
Manager: A job at head office? No thanks, I’ve no desire to be an arsehole for a living.
Peon: But you’d be so good at it.
4 The Sidings
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Co-worker #1: Have you ever been to Greece?
Co-worker #2: Yup.
Co-worker #1: Did you go see ruins of Pantheos?
Co-worker #2: You mean, “the Parthenon?”
Co-worker #1: Yeah, that’s it! Aw man, today I’ve got…what’s that called?
Co-worker #2: Stupid?
Co-worker #1: Ha, ha. Very funny. No…oh! Mind dyslexia!
Co-worker #2: As opposed to body dyslexia?
216 W. Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois
PR agent: He’s greedy, and he’s a pirate, and he’s a whore.
350 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: editorial intern/slave
Woman #1: I’m pregnant again.
Woman #2: On purpose?
Woman #3, sighing: I need a rest from all these ass-wipes that work here. I need a little hospital- and daytime TV R and R.
Montvale, New Jersey
