Intern, answering phone: Good afternoon, Science Committee…Mike*, Buzz Aldrin is on the line.
Mike*, rolling his eyes: Oh shit.
Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
Intern, answering phone: Good afternoon, Science Committee…Mike*, Buzz Aldrin is on the line.
Mike*, rolling his eyes: Oh shit.
Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
President: You can ask them for it, but technically, when it comes to that, we would no longer be partners, but competitors.
Intern: So it's like we're in a dysfunctional marriage with them? Like love/hate?
President: It's more like they're a bitch and it's the wrong time of the month.
Tampa, Florida
Officer: Immediately!
Intern: Like now, immediately?
San Diego, California
Female intern: I’m not sorry.
Male worker: You should be. I missed my deadline.
Female intern: You missed your deadline because you are hungover, like, every day.
Male worker: Compounded by the fact I have to mentor skanks at work!
Rochelle Park, New Jersey
Overheard by: Blondie
Supervisor: Yes?
Temp: Are the dot by the letters and the dot by the numbers the same thing?
11405 Bluegrass Parkway
Louisville, Kentucky
Overheard by: powerof3
Queer temp on phone: God, I hate Lynn*! I can never spend any long periods of time with her because we can never eat. Why does she have to be anorexic? Why can’t she just be bulimic so she can at least eat with me and then puke it all up later? Hell, she can even use my finger or toothbrush!
1515 Broadway
New York, New York
Overheard by: Jas
Male intern #1: Conor's sick, won't be in at all today.
Female intern: Is he really sick, or just too sick for work but not sick enough for drinks?
Male intern #2: Really? He liked Katy Perry on Facebook at about half nine! Can't be that sick…
Dublin
Ireland
Coworker: Did you watch The Office last night?
Temp: No, I was reading.
Coworker: Well, buddy, you’re working XYZ* Cable now. You better catch up so you know what we’re talking about.
Temp: I’m a temp, I’m done this week anyway.
Englewood, Colorado
Overheard by: Sixtwentysix
Intern, staring at document: Wow. So this guy was executed in Corcoran, and he had to sign for it?
Paralegal: No. ‘Executed at’ means that is where he signed it… You know, he signed it in Corcoran.
Intern: Ohhh.
311 Douty Street
Central Valley, California
Overheard by: californiatrinity
Australian guy: Pardon my language, but my last boss was such a cunt.
Intern: I feel like it’s more acceptable to say the C-bomb when you have an accent.
Spring Street
Oyster Bay, New York
