Intern: What do we do if there's a fire? Meet somewhere outside…or…
Quasi-supervisor: Hide under your desk.
Cleveland, Ohio
Intern: What do we do if there's a fire? Meet somewhere outside…or…
Quasi-supervisor: Hide under your desk.
Cleveland, Ohio
Coworker (exchanging his stapler for absent coworker's stapler): My stapler is broken.
Intern: You're bad! Bad!
Coworker: Muahahaha! I am eeeevil!
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Hiding my stapler
Admin assistant: Can you get us these things from Starbucks? (hands list to intern)
Intern: Yeah. (pauses, looks at list) This one says “no milk”…do you think that means fat free”?
Admin assistant: Uh…
W 45th
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Actually, it said 2 percent.
Intern to resident artist: Is it “Helga's Pub” or “Helga's Lounge”?
Resident artist: It's “Helga's Pub.” It stopped being a lounge when they took down the picture of Eddie Rabbit.
Broad Street
Augusta, Georgia
French intern: Um, excuse me? What is “slut”?
Coworker: Heh…I would run that by your supervisor.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rachael
Intern to girlfriend: Do you really have to be a slutty fire-lady?
Chigaco, Illinois
Full timer to temp: We're in the East because that is where New York is from.
Park Ave
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Mary Beth
Manager: I remember him when he was still an exchange student, what do you call those?
Intern: Interns?
Oakland, California
Guy: I have to go see my mom, she just had her hip replaced.
Intern: Where is “hipper place”?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: JDS
Teen intern: Is dirt alive?
Suitland, Maryland
