Hotel Manager: Can we help you, ma’am?
Guest: My husband just got on the elevator without me, I can’t believe that little shit/
Hotel Manager: Well, if we track him down we can send him your way.
Guest: If I can’t keep track of him after 30 years you won’t either.
9 East Wilson Street
Madison, Wisconsin
Employee #1: So this presentation on customer service was just so stupid! The speaker kept saying that to diffuse tense situations, you should reiterate back to the customer why they're upset to show that you understand their point of view! I totally disagree. I hate when that happens! That's just so dumb.
Employee #2: So if I understand this correctly, Alan*, you think it's a bad idea to summarize why a customer is unhappy and restate that back to them.
Employee #1: Yes, exactly!
Atlanta, Georgia
Girl #1: They missed their deliverables again. Can you believe that shit?
Girl #2: No, I can’t believe it. I am so frustrated for you. What is the excuse? “Our neanderthal foreheads make it difficult to see the screen?”
275 Battery Street
San Francisco, California
Sales guy: Jason*, quit calling into my sales territory! You are a freaking poacher!
Jason: Poacher? I don’t even like eggs.
Sales guy: You’re an idiot.
6400 Congress Avenue
Boca Raton, Florida
Overheard by: Fried Egg
Boy: I don’t like Oprah. She’s kind of racist.
Girl: Oprah can’t be racist! She’s black!
Boy: Were your parents related?
Girl: What’s that got to do with anything?
710 West San Augustine, Deer Park High School
Deer Park, Texas
Overheard by: Ian Jacoby
CSR: Jesus, this coffee tastes like it was brewed in a colostomy bag.
Admin: I think it tastes delicious.
CSR: You would.
4800 NW 1st Street
Lincoln, Nebraska
Overheard by: customerserviceslave
Tech #1: I have to stop using the f-word!
Tech #2: You need something else to say. Like…”butt breath.”
Tech #1: That's nasty.
Tech #3: Not if it's a baby's butt.
St. Charles, Missouri
Male boss: So, earlier I walked down the hall calling your name, looking for you, but my wife is the one that responded…
Coworker, jokingly: That's because our names sound so much alike.
Male boss: No, I think it's because when we have sex I like to pretend she's a man and I call out your name.
Coworker: That's the most fucked-up thing you've ever said to me.
Charleston, South Carolina
Assistant manager: Ma’am, you can’t bring that puppy in here. We’re going to have to ask you to leave.
Lady carrying puppy: What? It’s a goddamn puppy! Suck my dick!
Assistant manager: You’re going to have to leave.
Lady carrying puppy, leaving: Fuck you, bitches!
Assistant manager, cheerfully: Goodbye! Shop again!
7747 Mall Road
Florence, Kentucky
Designer: You shot the Rubik’s Cube contest?
Photographer: Yeah. It was like watching fat, naked men greased up in butter sumo wrestling. You don’t want to watch, but you can’t look away.
Designer: … You know, most people use the metaphor, ‘It was like watching a train wreck,’ but you took it to a really dark place.
323 E Grand River Avenue
Howell, Michigan
Overheard by: Dundie
