Boss, yelling at employee during conference call: I need to know if this guy is jerking me off or not!
18th St.
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Cill the Obscure
Boss, yelling at employee during conference call: I need to know if this guy is jerking me off or not!
18th St.
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Cill the Obscure
Engineer #1: How's the baby?
Engineer #2: Great!
Engineer #1: I'm thinking of having one soon!
Engineer #2: Really? You're married?
Engineer #1: No, working on it.
Engineer #2: Oh, wow! You got engaged…congratulations!
Engineer #1: No, not yet.
Engineer #2: Do you even have a girlfriend?
Engineer #1: Working on it. It's hard to recruit women to come here…
New York
Overheard by: How?
Clerk #1: They said there was problems on the 4 and 5–what does that have to do with the 3? Where did the 3 go?
Clerk #2: They said someone threw themselves on the tracks.
Clerk #3: Did what?
Clerk #2: Threw themselves in front of the train–someone wanted to commit hara-kiri.
Clerk #3: Why they got to do that at this time of day? Why does everyone want to kill themselves during rush hour, but nobody wants to do it in the middle of the night, so we can all get to work?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Innocent Bystander
Tired CEO, coming out of his office: Ugh. I feel like a big, huge…stuffed cabbage.
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Lowly analyst girl
Distinguished foreign lecturer: We're not sure what these people were doing here or how long they stayed, but they made a lot of fire and left a lot of human remains.
NYU
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Claire H.
Assistant manager on phone: Now that he is out of jail maybe he'll want to soil his wild oats.
Rochester, New York
Overheard by: Jude
Director: How do you spell “dumb”? “D-u-m” or “d-u-m-e”?
Account executive: It's “d-u-m-b.”
Director: What?
Account executive: “D-u-m-b.” B, b, b…like “boy.”
Director: What about boys?
40th & Lexington
New York City, New York
Office drone: I know that, I'm not stupidity.
5th Avenue
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Apparently I'm With Stupid
