Minnesota

…Shit– I Broke an Acrylic Nail.

Employee #1, looking at t-shirt designed by Daisy Fuentes with a spanish word printed on it: God, when did Daisy Fuentes become Spanish?
Employee #2: Hasn't she always been Spanish?
Employee #1: No! She thinks she's so cool she can just decide to be Spanish one day.
Employee #2: But her last name sounds Spanish.
Employee #1, pronouncing it wrong: Fuentes? Whatever, that isn't Spanish. She's so fake. God, I hate people that are fake.

Kohl's Department Store
Minnesota

Overheard by: Expect Great Things

On-the-Job Training Rocks in This Company

Office gal: No, that goes in vertically.
Office guy: Vertically? Where? Here?
Office gal: No, in the little hole.
Office guy: What? No way!
Office gal: Yeah, you gotta fanagle it a little bit to get the gap to open up, so you can stick it in there.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: That's what she said?…

3PM Coffee Break

Battleaxe: You know, pretty soon we’ll start to see refugees from New Orleans at this school…I’d rather that than the Muslims.

695 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Overheard by: Carl Limbacher

Co-worker #1: Man, New Orleans has sure turned into something out of Lord Of The Rings.
Co-worker #2: Don’t you mean Lord Of The Flies?

800 Hennepin Ave S
Minneapolis, Minnesota

12PM Make That a Case of Atlases

Co-worker #1: I know why the sales tax isn’t calculating right at our New England site. Nobody entered New England’s sales tax.
Co-worker #2: What?
Co-worker #1: Yeah, we just need to enter the sales tax rate for the state of New England.
Co-worker #2: New England isn’t a state.
Co-worker #1: Ha, ha! Yeah, right!

1 Merrill Circle
St. Paul, Minnesota

Which Explains Why It Exploded on My Desk

Central office tech: I'm not really sure how it works. I don't play with it very often.

Phone Company
Moorhead, Minnesota

Overheard by: Lord Baddkitty

It's a Supernatural Three's Company

Coworker: How many people in your household?
Client: 3 souls and 1 body.

Duluth, Minnesota

As Long As There Was Enough Glade on Hand

Coworker #1: Oh, that sounded like a queef.
Coworker #2: I had a friend who could roll over and queef on command.
Coworker #1: Wow! That would be a great party trick.

Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Someone’s Been Sniffing the Toner Again

Receptionist, on his last day: How can I give the rest of the staff access to these files?
Tech guy: Put them on the network.
Receptionist: Where’s the network?
Tech guy: Exactly! It’s everywhere, man!

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Overheard by: I’m New Here

11AM Internal Review Committee

Co-worker: I like it so much I say forget about the back end, let’s do everything front end.

150 South 5th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: Colleen Cauley

If You Mention a Gadget, It’s Not Vulgarity

Fattie: I swear to Christ, I’m gonna shove that Blackberry up your ass if you bring it to another sales meeting.

1100 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: Steven Grafing

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