Temp: All the food here is good, especially the bacon. I mean, this is real bacon, not the kind you buy at the store.
Culinary school
Pasadena, California
Overheard by: I’m surrounded by idiots
Temp: All the food here is good, especially the bacon. I mean, this is real bacon, not the kind you buy at the store.
Culinary school
Pasadena, California
Overheard by: I’m surrounded by idiots
Fellow intern: I think my goal for the next eight months in this company is to become a professional foosball player.
Yaletown
Canadia
Intern, about weekend: My favorite monk wasn’t in my meditation class, which was upsetting!
202 West 1st Street
Los Angeles, California
Intern #1: Sorry, I can't go out tonight. I have to get a tattoo.
Intern #2: Oh, what are you getting?
Intern #1: This proverb: “time wasted can never be reclaimed.”
Intern #2: That's deep.
Intern #1: Yeah, it was between that and a lollipop on my hand. But I did a Twitter poll and they voted on the proverb.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Hanly
PhD-level analyst: Oh, the copier is printing the whole five hundred pages of that report! I only want the first page! Stop, stop, stop! Why wont it stop?!
Temp: You have to actually press a button. It doesn’t work on voice command…
75 Washington Avenue
Portland, Maine
Overheard by: brian brinegar
Intern: Where’s will-call? I have to drop off tickets.
Security dude: Will Call? Who’s that? [Calls manager over]
Manager chick: You’re looking for Will?
662 6th Avenue
New York, NY
Female trainee, after listening to instructions from several minutes: Hang on, I need to write this down but I'm peeling an orange at the moment.
London
England
Product Manager #1: It’s Spring Break.
Product Manager #2: How come we don’t get Spring Break?
Intern #1: Because you’re no longer young.
Intern #2: Or pretty.
777 4th Street
Los Angeles, California
Temp: It's so silent in here.
Boss: Don't ruin the magic.
East Circle Drive
East Lansing, Michigan
Hissing sound comes from reception area.
New graphics intern: Is that compressed air?
Admin: Oh, yeah.
New graphics intern: Sweet.
Washington, DC
