Temp at day’s end finding her car’s been running since lunch: Oh, my! I must have forgotten again!
Sweeten Creek Road
Asheville, North Carolina
Temp at day’s end finding her car’s been running since lunch: Oh, my! I must have forgotten again!
Sweeten Creek Road
Asheville, North Carolina
Hot intern #1: You know why I love wearing miniskirts on Mondays?
Hot intern #2: Maybe. Why?
Hot intern #1: Because I can air things out after a weekend of hard work.
Hot intern #2: Oh, hey, I wonder if that would work for me…
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: not getting any
Trainee: Would you mind closing that window? The cold air is making my skin peel off.
London
England
Intern on third day of work: This is probably something I should have asked the first day, but… where’s the men’s room?
Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Trainee: My boyfriend likes this perfume. He says it smells like the inside of a clean woman.
Training class, Cosmetic company
California
Interning scientist #1: Dammit, I can’t find my spleen! I lost my spleen!
Interning scientist #2: Well, I have extra spleens — you can have one of mine if it works.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: HK
Chick: Hi, I’m here for the interview…
Employee: Alright… What’s your name?
Chick: I’m here for an appointment at 3:30.
Employee: Oh, it’s noon right now, so… not for a while!
Chick: Oh, is it? Ohhh my gosh, I’m so sorry. I’m, like, really blazed right now.
Northlake Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida
Overheard by: cool, im hungover.
Hot intern girl: It sucks that we have to seal all these envelopes today.
Jewish intern guy: Yeah, well, I make it into a game, you see. I pick a number, and if I can’t seal that many envelopes in one minute, a bomb explodes!
Hot intern girl: Wow.
West Loop, Galleria Area
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: In the cube next door
Coworker: Tell the intern to do that.
Boss: The intern? She has a name.
Coworker: You know who I meant.
Boss: It’s Rebecca*! Let’s not be racist.
Coworker: Interns aren’t a race!
Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Boss: So did you work things out?
Intern: Yeah, I talked to him when I dropped the tumor off.
Martin Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
Overheard by: sleeping with my eyes open
