Employer: I don't like open packages lying around, it creates bugs.
Employee: That's why I always roll and tape back my nuts.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Nathalie
Employer: I don't like open packages lying around, it creates bugs.
Employee: That's why I always roll and tape back my nuts.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Nathalie
Corporate boss on phone: Do you know where I am? Do you know where I am? I’m on Roosevelt-fucking-Island… Roosevelt-fucking-Island! In a fucking trailer! This is my life, okay? I was nauseous this morning ’cause I’m a schmuck. I’m on Roosevelt-fucking-Island… So tell me, does it get any worse?
Roosevelt Island, New York
Overheard by: Officetemp
Intern #1: Sorry, I can't go out tonight. I have to get a tattoo.
Intern #2: Oh, what are you getting?
Intern #1: This proverb: “time wasted can never be reclaimed.”
Intern #2: That's deep.
Intern #1: Yeah, it was between that and a lollipop on my hand. But I did a Twitter poll and they voted on the proverb.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Hanly
Manager: Where is the post office? Who even goes to the post office? That’s just stupid!
Canal Street and 6th Avenue
New York, New York
Guy on video conference: I’ll be on it like a pit bull on a third grader.
55 Water Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: Mickey the Intern
Computer technician: I swear to you, they're going to find Bin Laden, and he's going to be working at the Dell call center.
Manhattan, New York
Boss, about author: It's a great book, but the guy is one of those liberal nuts, real left wing. Been part of the anti-Nazi movement for years.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: What Year/Country is This
Boss: You know those people from Saudi Arabia?
Assistant: Yes.
Boss: Are they Iranians?
Franklin Avenue
New York, New York
Guy: Dude, that’s stupid. That attachment went out to like the whole office, you totally can’t do that…Yeah, the girl was pretty hot, though.
915 Broadway
New York, NY
