VP: Communication: it’s hard to spell, so it must be hard to do.
1 Railroad Avenue
Cooperstown, New York
VP: Communication: it’s hard to spell, so it must be hard to do.
1 Railroad Avenue
Cooperstown, New York
Boss: Hey, can you make a calendar that looks like this? [Hands a paper to her.]Underling: Yeah. You know this is from [the other agency], right?
Boss: Yeah, the client likes it. We have to go with that.
Underling: But their calendar is a copy of the one I did for the client. The client just handed it to them, and they made all these little changes.
Boss: Yeah, just do it like that.
Underling: But I already did it. They only took my calendar and messed with it.
Boss: Just make it look like this one!
Underling: But it’s my calendar!
Boss: Just make it look like this one! [Boss stalks off.]Underling, to entire office: Am I in a Dilbert cartoon?
3rd Avenue
New York, New York
Co-Worker #1: Is that ice coffee?
Co-Worker #2: Yeah.
Co-Worker #1: Does it really taste like coffee?
57th and Lexington
New York, New York
Overheard by: Kimberly A.
Audience development director: Is anybody else having any weird computer issues? I'm having trouble on the main site and on admin…
Marketing director: The porn I'm looking at is taking an awfully long time to load, if that's what you mean.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Sarah
Engineer #1: Can I borrow these probes?
Engineer #2: Are you going to bring them back?
Engineer #1: Yeah, sure.
Engineer #2: Probes never come back. There’s like a probe-hole somewhere. Like the same place socks go in the laundry.
Engineer #1: … Did you just say ‘probe-hole’?
Engineer #2: Ummm… Yes.
Rochester, New York
Employee #1: Hey I think Obama is not worthy of a president.
Employee #2: Really?
Employee #1: Yeah Kevin Rudd would do a better job, and he's useless.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: trevor mcginnty
Coworker: If anyone’s looking for me, I’m going to go to the men’s room and give it to Karen.
(Over the sounds of laughter, I saw him holding a document he was going to drop off his way to the bathroom.)
4 Washington Avenue Ext.
Albany, NY
Overheard by: Patrick George
Coworker, eating wasabi peas: I was about to put two big ones in my mouth!
Hawthorne, New York
Male manager: You weren't in another accident, were you?
Female cube dweller: No. I pooped.
Long Island, New York
Overheard by: Cube Dweller
Tech guy on phone: It doesn't work? You let Jeff touch it?! You let Darth Moron touch it!
Time Warner Cable Offices
New York
