Raise Your Hand If You Know People Who Are Raising Their Grandchildren

Senior administrator: Speaking of birth control, how is your daughter?
Professor: Knocked up.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Posted on September 26, 2014
Admins, Family, Health & Hygiene, Massachusetts, Questions, Teachers

Yeah, It Reminds Us Why We Work

Woman to man remaining on elevator: Not getting off?
Man: Yeah, I thought it was going up. It was going down.
Woman: Ah, well, a little detour’s okay.
Man: Yeah… I have a lot of work to do, though.
Woman: Well, but you know, sometimes it’s important to stop and smell… the lobby.

60 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Posted on September 26, 2014
Coworkers, General Idiocy, Massachusetts, Time Management

Everybody Feels That Way about Dr. Phil

Peon: I don’t know… It just seems like kind of a waste of Jell-O.

1 Athenaeum Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Posted on September 22, 2014
Coworkers, Gripes, Massachusetts, Meals and Snacks

It’s Easy to Be Tough When You’re Holding a Mop

Janitor: See, you’re making assumptions. That’s no good. You know what happens when you assume, doncha?
Lawyer: …
Janitor: Yeah, that’s right; you make an ass outta yourself.

15 Somerset Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Posted on September 21, 2014
Insults, Legal, Massachusetts

…But Everyone Else Just Rolled Over and Went to Sleep.

Female marketing manager on phone: That was the best meeting we've had since I've been here. It felt like sex! When it was finished I wanted to smoke a cigarette and drink some scotch.

Technology Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Posted on September 20, 2014
Bosses, Compare and contrast, Drinking, Massachusetts, Meetings, On the phone, Sexuality, Smoking

They Tilt Their Heads Just So to Avoid a Lifting Body Shape

Chubby office girl #1: … And I’m a big girl, okay? The wind was blowing so hard that I almost fell over. I dunno how other people stay on the ground.
Chubby office girl #2: I’ve often wondered that.
Chubby office girl #1: Why I’m so fat?
Chubby office girl #2, laughing: No, how skinny people aren’t airborne more often.
Chubby office girl #1: They’re more aerodynamic, I guess.

State Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Liz