Trader #1, wearing yarmulke: …and your business is in Brooklyn?
Trader #2: No, Brooklyn is where the yams hang out. You know, your people.
200 Vesey Street
New York, New York
Trader #1, wearing yarmulke: …and your business is in Brooklyn?
Trader #2: No, Brooklyn is where the yams hang out. You know, your people.
200 Vesey Street
New York, New York
Lawyer on phone: Homeless strippers?… Dude, you don’t want to hook up with a homeless stripper.
Empire State Building
New York, New York
Overheard by: temporary paralegal
Co-worker #1: Do you know any strippers?
Co-worker #2: Um…
Co-worker #1: No, I mean people who can strip paint.
640 Broadway
New York, NY
Boss: I’m just going to stop taking notes and just use yours after the meeting, because I have no idea what’s going on.
545 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York
Tech guy: You know, I was thinking the other day — you know how when these terrorists die, they think they’re getting, like, 40 virgins? Well, it occurred to me that the only virgins up there will be all these 80-something-year-old nuns…
Corporate Drive
Orangeburg, New York
Overheard by: amused temp
Boss, leaning over printer: I'm getting duplicates up the wa-doo-da!
Gay art director: I hate when that happens.
The Village
Manhattan, New York
Peon #1: Stop making faces behind my back!
Peon #2: I am making them in front of you!
New York City, New York
Boss: That’s what I hate about these people who take the Bible literally: it’s so pick and choose! What about all the parts where you get stoned for looking at bread the wrong way?
Print shop
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York
Overheard by: milu
Female coworker #1: I really need to cut back on my caffeine.
Female coworker #2: Yeah, me too.
Female coworker #1: No, I really need to stop. Whenever I go out with my running group, I always need to pull over and shit in the bushes. Y'know, because of the caffeine.
Female coworker #2: (tries unsuccessfully to hide disgust)
Female coworker #1: What? It's totally natural.
Male coworker: Why can't there be more men in this department?
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Had to stop eating my lunch
