Employee friend: So, is everybody getting laid off then?
Executive friend: Not everybody.
(employee friend smiles)
Executive friend: Just everybody that wasn't on the commonwealth* project.
Employee friend: I wasn't on the commonwealth project.
Executive friend: Oh, yeah, uh…
Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: I WAS on the Project!!!
Supervisor: Don’t forget to call [Kwok]. He’s got a couple of huge boxes and I think they’re computers.
Admin: Which one is [Kwok]?
Supervisor: The short Asian guy.
Admin on phone: Hi [Kwok], it’s [Jane]. I just wanted to let you know you have a huge package.
470 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Customer service rep: To reset your password you will need to answer a set of security questions. Okay, where were you were born? (pause) Can you think of anywhere else you might have been born?
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Lady #1: I thought he was going to be a priest…
Lady #2: No, he got thrown out for coming home drunk from a strip club!
Boston, Massachusetts
Office lady, from cubicle: White! (pause) Did you like my answer when I said white? Sometimes it's purple.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Female coworker #1: If you hold it up to the light it looks blue.
Female coworker #2: Ohhh.
Female coworker #1: Actually, they both look blue.
Female coworker #2: It is blue!
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Office girl #1, singing: Sometimes I feel like saying “Lord, I just don't care,” but you got the love I need to see me through.
Office girl #2: Fitting with the rapture and all tomorrow. Sarah's pissed cause I am going to heaven and she isn't. Apparently the Jews are having rapture parties.
Burlington, Massachusetts
Old office lady #1: I found out what “buggery” means.
Old office lady #2: What?
Old office lady #1: It means “sodomy.” It must be an older word for it.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Overheard by: PS
Male worker #1, holding letter: Where should I put this?
Male worker #2: Let's just stick it in Phyllis's box.
Male worker #2: I like the sound of that!
Northampton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: She's elderly!
Satisfied admin: Yeah, we've got the state of Connecticut's address.
Norwel, Massachusetts
Overheard by: That's right Connecticut, we know where you live.
