Intern #1: How did the interview go?
Intern #2: You know how punctuality is a good thing?
Intern #1: Oh my gosh, were you late?
Intern #2: No, I was two weeks early.
1150 17th Street NW
Washington, DC
Intern #1: How did the interview go?
Intern #2: You know how punctuality is a good thing?
Intern #1: Oh my gosh, were you late?
Intern #2: No, I was two weeks early.
1150 17th Street NW
Washington, DC
Advertising intern, dialing number: Hello, I was wondering if you still have the silver ferret from yesterday? Okay, thanks.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Overheard by: get me out of here
Coworker #1: Dude, you know that your nose is bleeding?
Intern: Shit, thanks for the heads-up.
Coworker #2: Damn, kid, I wish I woulda known — you could have gotten me some blow.
Government building
Dayton, Ohio
CSR lady: Looks like you two are gonna have to conversate via email from now on.
Intern: Conversate? You mean ‘converse’?
CSR lady: I mean ‘conversate.’ Same damn thing.
8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Nikki
Intern, after a lengthy conversation with a make-up artist: Oh, and by the way, I’m here to do more than have conversations about murder and rape…
Sargent Place
Los Angeles, California
Accountant: The boss is charging all his personal expenses to the firm. We'll have to use a little creative camouflaging to make them look like office expenses.
Trainee: How do we show his father's funeral coffin?
Accountant: Packaging & forwarding?
Garden Square
Panjim
India
Overheard by: Paige Turner
Temp: I, like, can’t believe I don’t have herpes yet.
1212 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York
Intern, freaking out: Will somebody please help me? My pen fell down my pant leg and I can't find it!
Birmingham, Alabama
Temp #1: I have great hearing! Remember the test we'd take in school?
Temp #2: Yeah.
Temp #1: I remember one time you heard that girl, it was on half a zero and I heard it.
Cedar Place
Valhalla, New York
Overheard by: evildead
Boss to intern: Oh, you're from Kentucky! Is there anything important there?
Kentucky-born intern: Uh, the gold vault.
Boss: (blank stare)
Kentucky-born intern: You know, Fort Knox.
Boss: Oh, yeah! That's where they get the saying “She's locked up tighter than Fort Knox!”
Virginia Beach, Virginia
