Marketing assistant: He’s really changed his tune on that.
PR associate: Yup, he’s come around 360 degrees.
Marketing assistant: If not more!
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Marketing assistant: He’s really changed his tune on that.
PR associate: Yup, he’s come around 360 degrees.
Marketing assistant: If not more!
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Coworker #1, to coughing coworker: You need the Heimlich?
Coworker #2, sharply: No!
Coworker #1: You remember when Donnie* gave Ellie* the Heimlich and she threw up all over?
55 Water Street
New York, New York
Male peon to female peon: Go get yourself a pair of underwear and rent a hotel room if that’s what you need…
555 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Library worker to another: His hair was his Achilles’ heel.
441 East Fordham Road, Fordham University’s Walsh Library
Bronx, New York
Overheard by: Krisztina
Australian employee: What’s your expression for ‘Back of the fag packet’?
American employee: First, you’ll have to tell me what a ‘fag packet’ is. Then I might be able to help.
Empire State Building
New York, New York
Coworker #1, writing a vacuum product description: Does ‘extra long’ have a hyphen in it?
Coworker #2: Dude, are you writing spam?
58th Street and 1st Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Suit #1: So, where are we going?
Suit #2: Does it matter? We’re going there.
Suit #1: I don’t care about the food, I just want to know I can get a drink.
Suit #2: It’s a lunch place, but yeah, it has a bar.
Suit #1: Good.
Suit #2: Is that all you’re going to do for the next two weeks? Drink during lunch?
Suit #1: Mmm-hmmm.
Suit #2: Oh… I guess that’s okay.
485 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York
Conference call leader: Okay, so, by a show of hands…
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: Super Mike
Female peon: Okay, I’m going to Erin’s* dinner. See you tomorrow.
Male boss: Do me a favor — when you see her, squeeze her ass for me.
Female peon: Why don’t you squeeze her ass yourself?
Male boss: Are you kidding? That would be sexual harassment.
150 Mineola Boulevard
Mineola, New York
Overheard by: Big Larry
Lady peon on phone: I don’t know… That whole Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is overrated.
1212 6th Avenue
New York, New York
