Offers and requests

Prof: Questions, comments, concerns, snide remarks, songs, poems, eloquent discourses on the topic of your choice? No? Good.

Economics Class, East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Boss: Paychecks didn’t come again today. I can lend you money if you need it.
Employee: I have a wedding rehearsal dinner for 50 that I need to pay for this Thursday.
Boss: Well if I lend you the money to pay for it then I’m coming. Where is the dinner?
Employee: I’m not telling.

551 W. Cordova Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Boss: Hey, can you help me? I need to make a floor plan for the new office.
Underling: Yeah, sure. What are the dimensions?
Boss: It’s 10,000 square feet.
Underling: Yeah, but what are the dimensions?
Boss: What do you mean? It’s 10,000 square feet.
Underling: Yeah, but like what is the length and width?
Boss: Just make it 10,000 square feet.
Underling: But is it a square, or a rectangle, or what?
Boss: Uh, make it a rectangle.

712 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, Arizona

QA: That enhancement doesn’t work, you need to fix it.
Dev: I guess it won’t be in the patch, then.
QA: I didn’t spend all that time testing and documenting it, we need to release it.
Dev: I’m not going to fix it now.
QA: You just said it was going to be in the patch, now you are saying it’s not going to be fixed in this patch but it is in the patch.
Dev: Your Jedi mind tricks will not work on me.

16388 Westwoods Business Park
Ellisville, Missouri

Overheard by: Marc Brooks

Boss to employee: Can you google dead people?

Erie, Pennsylvania

Secretary to new receptionist: Will you light the candles on the birthday cake?
New receptionist: I'm not allowed to use matches.

Sarasota, Florida

Boss over intercom: [Laurel] please come to my office for a personal favor.

1710 Roy Acuff Place
Nashville, Tennessee

Nurse: You’re not a weird old lady. Stop it.

Ivyland, Pennsylvania

Lady desk jockey, loudly: It's time to go potty!

California University

Overheard by: Grossed Out

Boss: So, tell me about this guy we are doing business with today.
Assistant: Well, he is like [Adam], but with a bath and good shave.
Boss: Okay, good to know.

900 S. Shackleford Road
Little Rock, Arkansas