Talent to just-out-of-high-school intern: You should do porn. You have the body for it.
Irving, Texas
Overheard by: we don't have HR issues
Talent to just-out-of-high-school intern: You should do porn. You have the body for it.
Irving, Texas
Overheard by: we don't have HR issues
Staffer working on Patriot Act: Power is always abused; we were putting the Japanese in intermittent camps in the thirties during World War I.
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Intern
Intern to friend: My dancing-on-the-bar muscles hurt!
Elevator
New York
Employee: Ew! You’re dousing your sandwich in tabasco sauce!
Intern: I’m dousing it in self-hatred.
4 W. Oakland Avenue
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Vivian X
Boss: Don't forget to include an STD with that mailing.
Temp: STD?
Boss: “Save The Date” card.
Temp: Oh! I thought you meant “Sexually Transmitted Disease.”
Boss: What kind of magazines do you read, anyway?
Providence, Rhode Island
Boss: Do you like your bananas al dente?
Intern: Yes, I do!
Manhattan, New York
Senior: Isn’t “Butternut Bread” a brand? I know there is Mrs Baird’s, Iron Kids… Sunbeam…
Intern: Oh, there’s a strip club around here with a one-armed stripper named Sunbeam… But we call her “Nub”.
Senior: [Silence.]
Houston, Texas
New assistant on phone: Hang on, I have to look up our address… Well, I’ve never had to mail myself to work.
Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan
Overheard by: JuJu
Intern on phone: Uh-huh, yeah. We're staying with the nuns. Apparently you pray for an hour and then you can sleep there. I know.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
40-something male colleague: Oh, Sunday was no-pants day! Did you participate?
20-something female intern: Yes, but not intentionally!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
