Meetings

Manager #1: Are we meeting sometime, today?
Manager #2: We already met.
Manager #1: Oh. Did I miss anything important?
Manager #2: Well, you missed the meeting.

19 N. 6th Street
Reading, Pennsylvania

Lady #1, surprised after leaving meeting: Can you believe he was right about that?
Lady #2, angry: Ugh. No. Now I have to give him a blowjob.

New York City, New York

Overheard by: …Wants to be in that department

Employee: It’s called toxic shock syndrome. We have to hurry and finish this meeting.

23133 Outer Drive
Allen Park, Michigan

Meeting Attendee #1: When’s a good time to schedule the meeting with [Gary]?
Meeting Attendee #2: Well, he will be back from his heart attack next week.

2964 Peachtree Road NW
Atlanta, Georgia

Boss in team meeting: I know these conversations are going nowhere, but we’re on a deadline so we need to get nowhere faster!

Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Boss, holding meeting: So, you want to handle this thing?
Female employee: No.
Boss: What’s the matter? You can’t handle Harlem at night?
Female employee: No.
Boss: Faggot.
Queer employee: I’m surprised you used that word.
Boss: What? ‘Faggot’?
Queer employee: Yes.
Boss: Obviously I don’t think she’s gay. I said ‘faggot’ in the sense of, you know, a sissy. No guts.
Drama queen employee: Besides, you faggots call each other ‘faggot’ all the time. I know you do.
Queer employee: I guess.
Boss: Glad we settled that. [To female employee] Now… I expect you to take your sissy ass to Harlem and take care of this thing.

Law firm
Long Island, New York

Overheard by: Big Larry

Boss: I’m just going to stop taking notes and just use yours after the meeting, because I have no idea what’s going on.

545 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Analyst: I can give you the numbers in those divisions, but you can’t go public with it.
Marketing manager: I’m not going to go public with it, just present it at a meeting.
Analyst: Who’s going to be at the meeting?
Marketing manager: It’s a stakeholder meeting. So, whoever wants to, you know. It’s open to the public.

16340 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona

Boss: So why did they start having this weekly meeting anyway?
Co-worker: It started out with all of us sitting around eating pizza, talking casually; you know, just shooting the fan.

525 East 68th Street
New york, NY

Boss, walking into meeting: All I'm saying is that if those homie boys spoke more clearly they wouldn't have to finish every sentence with “know what I'm saying?”

Canberra
Australia

Overheard by: dmac