Interns & Temps

Intern chick: Where’s Ithaca?
Bronx boy: It’s upstate.
Intern chick: Upstate?
Bronx boy: Way upstate.
Intern chick: So where are we?
Bronx boy: We’re southern. The very southern tip of New York.
Intern chick: OK, how far north is it?
Bronx boy: Really far north… it’s near prisons, if you really want to know the truth.

125th Street & Lenox Avenue
New York, New York

Co-Worker: You need to preheat your hooha. This is too much.
Intern: We’re still talking about the steaming the laundry, right?

Pickard Theater
Brunswick, Maine

Overheard by: grappling with zippers

Intern #1: So is there a difference between homogenous and homogeneous?
Intern #2: Yes, one means “composed of one thing,” and the other is, like, a gay Einstein or something.

Rayburn House Building
Washington, DC

Overheard by: the Best and the Brightest

Office manager: Did you make an anonymous donation to our MS bike team?
Intern: I wish!

51st Street and 5th Avenue
New York, New York

Lady, to receptionist: Hi, I’m here for my internment…Oh, no! I mean internship!

875 Stevenson Street
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: Waiting for Internment too

Intern: When is Bush’s last term?
Employee: Um, right now. It ends in ’08.
Intern: Good. ‘Cause he’s stupid.

1065 Williams Street
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: Is summer over yet?

Intern: I’m sorry that I didn’t turn in my time sheet on Friday. I was on vacation and didn’t have access to a computer.
Payroll official: Well, I’ll let it go this time. Just don’t keep us in lingo again.

130 Cremona Drive
Santa Barbara, California

Overheard by: A disbelieving employee

Temp: Apparently he eats his cat’s leftovers.

140 West 45th Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: another temp

Co-worker #1: So how’s your belly button?
Co-worker #2: Um…it’s okay.
Co-worker #1: You know my dad’s scar looks like he has 3 belly buttons.
Co-worker #2: Oh yeah? Well, my friend’s isn’t even in the right place. It’s like way down here.
Intern #1: So it’s like she has a extra vag?
Intern #2: This is like the weirdest thing I’ve heard at work.

600 Water Street SW
Washington, DC

Overheard by: ADS

Manager: [Tim], are you going over the off-site location?
Intern: Yes, I have to pick up the loaner laptop for [Kelly].
Manager: Can you drop this off to shipping and receiving while you are there? Might as well stone 2 birds.

730 International Parkway
Richardson, Texas