Lady worker: He’s the type of person that stands outside when it’s raining to see if it’s wet enough!
Commerce Street
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: pedestrian
Lady worker: He’s the type of person that stands outside when it’s raining to see if it’s wet enough!
Commerce Street
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: pedestrian
Boss: I can’t get this damn phone to work.
Coworker: It helps if you’re just a little bit smarter than the technology.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Engineer: So, apparently she holds out her cell phone to people on the street and says, ‘This is my husband. Tell him he’s an asshole!’
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: thankfully unmarried
Male peon: So, where are you guys located, anyway?
Customer: We’re in Guyana.
Male peon: Oh, over in Africa, eh?
Black coworker, yelling from four cubicles over to male peon: Stan*, you’re an idiot!
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Andrew
CEO: Oh, that’s the guy with the gaggle of kids, right? The ugly ones.
Project coordinator: They’re not all ugly! The little one, Erica*, is cute!
CEO: She just hasn’t grown into her ugly yet.
Goderich, Ontario
Canadia
Boss: You know, every day it gets harder and harder to underestimate you.
Innovation Drive
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
IT guy: There’s a spectrum between those who are completely illiterate and those who are completely literate, and the people who write the news are somewhere in-between.
Tonopah, Arizona
Overheard by: AndyDan