Interns & Temps

Intern on lunch break: Can I have a napkin, please?
Bored cafeteria lady, without looking up: Use your sleeve.
(intern backs away slowly)

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Fellow cubicle-dweller

Secretary #1: That was a funny email you sent earlier; I couldn’t
stop cracking up.
Secretary #2: Hey, I just try to make you all laugh.
Intern: For you to make them laugh all they have to do is look at
your face.

28 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Intern: I wish I could remember Matt Damon's name in Good Will Hunting

Santa Fe Building
Denver, Colorado

Female intern: Another intern?
Male manager: Yup. You're not so new anymore.
Female intern: What's his name?
Male manager: Dick.
Female intern: Really? I know a Dick.
Male manager: Do you?
Female intern: Yeah, I know like three Dicks!

Richmond, Virginia

Overheard by: this wun guy

Intern to another: You can get a lot of blow for an AK.

Toronto
Canadia

Intern #1: That whole team is full of white receivers.
Intern #2: What’s wrong with white receivers?
Intern #1: They’re slow, man. I hate to be racist, but they are slow.
Intern #2: Yeah…
Intern #1: Hey, can I be racist against my own race?

1555 Pearl Street
Boulder, Colorado

Intern: I’ve got to start looking for a job.
Secretary: Did you talk to your Placement Office about networking?
Intern: They sent me some contacts. But they were in the Pacific.
Secretary: Did you contact them?
Intern: I don’t even speak Japan.

1010 Gratiot Avenue
Saginaw, Michigan

Suit to intern: Why don't you have your boyfriend dig you out?

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

28-year-old intern: How do you spell your last name?
22-year-old intern: “Towne”. You know, like “City” only with an “e”.
28-year-old agent: Don’t you mean like “Town” with an “e”?
22-year-old intern: Nope, I mean “City”. But I suppose “Town” would work too. I never thought of that.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Female intern: I hope I never deal with childbirth. I just want to lay an egg and be done with it.

Stoughton, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Billy