Office Politics

Student to another, after grabbing cookie from unattended table: What?! They left them out! That’s like leaving food out and not expecting the rats to come!

University
Prince George, British Columbia
Canadia

Guy: I always say, “To each his own.”
Girl: But what about Hitler? Would you say that about Hitler?
Guy: Well, if Hitler’s happy doing what he’s doing…

2375 Main Mall, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canadia

Office drone: It’s like… once you see the purple elephant walk into the room, you just don’t care.

490 1st Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida

Overheard by: django

Office grunt: I wish they would come to see if our workplace is killing us.

11 4th Street
Providence, Rhode Island

Overheard by: cuberat

Peon, about new manager: We can be flexible and try new things and watch it blow up in her face.

Wausau, Wisconsin

Boss: Please stop reading up on our client. I need you to be able to do your job… It’s a moral grey area.

1320 South Val Vista Drive
Mesa, Arizona

Employee: These file drawers are really getting overloaded.
Supervisor: Yeah, time for some perjury.

Westlake, Ohio

Overheard by: Giddy-up!

Coworker #1 : Yo, did y’all know Robert E. Lee was an Aborigine?

Long pause.

Coworker #2: Do you mean ‘abolitionist’?
Coworker #1: Oh, yeah.

1434 Larimer Street
Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: John Howard

Toy store clerk #1: Hey, Jessie*, do we still have any of those Communist uniforms?
Toy store clerk #2: I don’t think so.
Toy store clerk #1: What about the Communist soldier figurines?
Toy store clerk #2: Hm… I don’t think so.
Toy store clerk #1: Do we have anything Communist-related?
Toy store clerk #2: I think we still have the stick-on Communist facial hair…

29th Street and Guadalupe Street
Austin, Texas

Overheard by: amused socialist

Contract attorney: Ann Coulter? She looks like a bag full of antlers.

575 7th Street NW
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Daniel