North Carolina

Sales guy on phone with admin: Is the printer still down? Mm-hmmm. Well, if I needed something printed today, could you, like, hand-print it or something? Mm-hmmm. I see. Okay, thanks.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina

CFO to staff: You are the tools who get things done…

Raleigh Road
Raleigh, North Carolina

Overheard by: tool

Middle management: Hey, I like your tie. It looks very vintage.
Regular employee: “Vintage”…Yeah, hey I like that! That sounds great!

Later, at lunch.

Regular employee: Hey, guys, check this out! I just put cheese on my soup. Now that is vintage!

Raleigh, North Carolina

Nerdy barista #1, excitedly: Yeah, she said she wanted to hang out later!
Nerdy barista #2: Your life is like Tetris; all the pieces are falling into place.

Durham, North Carolina

Overheard by: nes

Loud cube rat: It's just a booger! You want a booger?
Normal cube rate: No, but let me help you out. (pulls out a Kleenex)

Mebane, North Carolina

Overheard by: Horrified

Coworker #1: Is it in regular writing or slanty writing?
Coworker #2: “Slanty” writing? Italics?
Coworker #1: No, italics is when it is bold.

Medical Office
Durham, North Carolina

Editor: I'm gonna do this guy…
Photographer: You're gonna do this guy? That's nasty, and do I really have to take pictures?!
Editor: Why are all of our photographers perverted?

Boone, North Carolina

Woman on phone to client: Well, New Year's Day fell on the 1st this year, which messed a few things up.

Durham, North Carolina

Overheard by: Stunned

Woman in accounting who's trying to stop using profanity: Why isn't my computer working? Why won't you print my shit? (pause) Shit! (pause) Dammit!

Fort Mill, South Carolina

Staying coworker: Now that you're leaving, we're going to have to work twice as hard.
Leaving worker: I know, you have to take advantage of the opportunity. Just like I'm going to start being a dick to everyone.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Overheard by: DIV