Interns & Temps

Intern: Are you still sick?
Female doctor with a deep chest cough: I just need to be pounded.

Manhattan, New York

Intern: North Korea is only the scariest country on the planet.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Overheard by: Temp

Young female intern to male supervisor: Hey, Tom*, can I make your future baby?

Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Accountant: I'm anti math.
Intern: Aren't you an accountant?

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Overheard by: Meg

Male systems analyst: Why don't you just finish that bottle of water? You've only got like two swallows left.
Female student intern: Oh, I've swallowed a lot more than that.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Boss: Wait,where did the desks go?
Female intern: Are there supposed to be desks?
Boss: What? That's like asking if trains should have seats!
Female intern: Should they?

Canary Wharf
London
England

Intern #1: You know, the ABC Family really is a new kind of family.
Intern #2: What do you mean?
Intern #1: Well it's promoting underage drinking and teen pregnancy. Yay, family!

Richmond, Virginia

Naive intern: Soo… Bob* from IT asked me if I wanted to go see Blue Man Group with him last week, and so I casually said I had plans with my boyfriend, to let him know I was spoken for, you know?
Office bitch: I'm sorry, I don't see the problem.
Naive intern: Well, ever since then he won't leave me alone and keeps asking me to hang out. Until I mentioned I had a boyfriend he wouldn't even talk to me!
Office bitch: Have you considered the possibility that maybe he just wants to be your friend?
Average worker: Woah! Look who got a soul for Christmas!

Woburn, Massachusetts

Overheard by: i got coal….

General manager: If there's a problem report immediately, don't wait for an opportune moment.
Teenage intern: Is that a real word?
General manager: What? “Opportune”?
Teenage intern: No, “moment.”

Derry, New Hampshire

Employee to intern: That'll back me up for a month! I don't want your chocolate.

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Chocolateer