Their Alliance with the Sundae Lobby Was a Stroke of Genius

Coworker: You keep hearing all this stuff about cherries being good for you. They’re actually not that good for you. It’s just what the people in northern Michigan say to get you to buy their cherries!

Navy Yard
Washington, DC

Posted on March 12, 2015
Coworkers, Gossip, Gripes, Meals and Snacks, Money, Washington DC

…Who Buys a Zoot Suit?

Coworker #1: Mothball or malt ball sized hail?
Coworker #2: I think that only matters if you are a windshield.
Coworker #1: They can all die. They ate holes in my 800-dollar zoot suit.
Coworker #2: Aw, man!

Austin, Texas

Posted on March 9, 2015
Animals, Clothes, Coworkers, Death, Money, Texas

It'd Be Such a Relief to Unveil My Contempt

Program manager: What about follow-on funding?
Scientist: Well, in my ideal world, we'd get the follow-on, and then I wouldn't have to do anything but sit in team meetings and spew hatred.

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Posted on March 7, 2015
Admins, Dorks, Geeks, & Nerds, Michigan, Money, Questions, Weirdness, Wishes

I Do the Checking-out Here, Sir

Older gentleman with thick Slavic accent, leaning over counter towards male cashier: Oh, those are niiice pants.
Cashier, cheeks reddening: Um, excuse me?
Older gentleman: I don't speak English so good. I am European. Your trousers, they are good. How much?

Wal-Mart
Mountain View, California

Overheard by: lith

Posted on March 6, 2015
California, Clothes, Customers, Employees, Language barrier, Money, Physical Appearance, Questions

Or Since He Hated the Old Man, Maybe Toxic Waste Disposal

Accountant: The boss is charging all his personal expenses to the firm. We'll have to use a little creative camouflaging to make them look like office expenses.
Trainee: How do we show his father's funeral coffin?
Accountant: Packaging & forwarding?

Garden Square
Panjim
India

Overheard by: Paige Turner

Posted on March 6, 2015
Asia, Death, Default, Financial Folk, Interns & Temps, Money, Questions, Words

Let's Just Say I'll Never Go Back to the Unitarian Church

Woman attending performance: It was twenty dollars per nipple.

San Francisco, California

Overheard by: where's my 40 bucks?

Posted on March 2, 2015
Body Parts, California, Employees, Money

Didn’t You See Me Roll That Drunk in the Parking Lot?

10-year-old boy to mom: 63 dollars? Do you have that kind of cash?

Disneyland entrance gates
Anaheim, California

Overheard by: amused disney worker

Posted on February 26, 2015
California, Kids, Money, Questions, Sales

Not the Erotic Candy Store, Like Last Year

HR woman at benefits meeting: If you fill out this online survey you will receive a $50 gift card.
Woman employee: So what's the gift card good for?
HR woman: It's good for… Dicks…
(another woman employee starts laughing out loud)
HR woman: I meant “Dick's Sporting Goods.”

Cincinnati, Ohio

Overheard by: Guy in the crowd

Posted on February 24, 2015
Body Parts, Employees, Human Resources, Money, Ohio, Questions

3PM Smoke Break

Co-worker #1: So your wife works as a nurse in the ER at that new fancy hospital?
Co-worker #2: Yep. Has been for 6 months.
Co-worker #1: Do they treat people who come in without insurance there?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, treat them like shit.

1620 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska

Posted on February 17, 2015
Coworkers, Health & Hygiene, Money, Nebraska, Questions, Relationships, Words

10AM Cut Checks

Manager: They really need to pay this month’s rent ’cause I lost their money order last month and that makes them 2 months behind.

108 North Belvedere Boulevard
Memphis, Tennessee

Posted on February 10, 2015
Dumb Bosses, General Idiocy, Money, Tennessee

Money