Employee #1: Ok, I’m taking breakfast orders for the meeting, what do you guys want?
Employee #2: Ummm, I’ll have the western omelette.
Employee #1: Ok.
Employee #2: Oh, wait…are there eggs in that?
Employee #1: Uh, yeah!
Employee #2: Okay then!
Falls Church, Virginia
Overheard by: You’ve got to be kidding
Visiting salesgirl: Hi, I’m here to see Carrie Bradshaw.
Receptionist: Do you mean Carrie Schwartz?
Visiting salesgirl: No, I’m pretty sure her name was Carrie Bradshaw.
Receptionist: We don’t have a Carrie Bradshaw. Carrie Bradshaw is from Sex and the City.
245 5th Avenue
New York, New York
VP: Hi! Nice to see you. I hope we’ll be meeting soon!
Ad agency rep: Yes, like right now? Since that’s why we’re here.
Central Park South
New York, New York
Director: Like all of my meetings, I don’t have an agenda. I like to just let people talk and it usually turns up interesting discussions.
5720 Peachtree Parkway
Norcross, Georgia
Cube dweller #1: I just want to make sure we are communicating on this project.
Cube dweller #2: Yeah, we’re communicating. [Yells over cubicles] Hey, Roy*, are we communicating?
Roy: Uh, I’m communicating with my sandwich.
Vienna, Virginia
Overheard by: The Communicator
Manager #1: Time for the meeting.
Manager #2: Can I just tie a fucking bag of stray cats over my head instead?
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Manager: Instead of wine night, we call it ‘book club.’
1400 Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Overheard by: Doug’s Mom
Worker bee: Is the meeting in room 1 finished?
Peon: I don't know, is anyone in there?
Worker bee: No, it's empty.
Peon: Then the meeting's probably finished.
Bristol
England
Overheard by: Stephanie
Boss: Let’s be clear about this… Actually, no, let’s be unclear.
10900 Martin Luther King Drive
Cleveland, Ohio
Secretary, poking head into crowded conference room: Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: Coffee out of my nose…
