Coworker #1: Tell me I’m crazy.
Coworker #2: You’re crazy.
Coworker #1: Yeah, Helen* totally caught me checking out Bob* yesterday.
Coworker #2: You’re crazy, ’cause he’s gay…
Coworker #1: So, what? Gays aren’t allowed to look good?
Missoula, Montana
Overheard by: Gaia
Boss on phone: We really want to focus on your company in 2009. The alternative energy sector is expanding at an incredible rate, and I… (pause) Really? Rape?
Williamstown
Australia
Overheard by: Kate
IT director: You have to think of an org chart as a sort of hierarchy.
Ottawa
Ontario
Canadia
Coworker, reading an e-mail: Oh no… We can’t hire someone that says “TGIF”.
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: I agree
Technician #1 to technician #2: When the boss asked me where I was at on the calibration I just thought to myself: “If I stand here very quiet and don’t respond maybe he’ll forget he asked me”.
Avionics Shop, Washington
Telemarketing instructor #1, analyzing recorded call: Does heavy breathing count as “filler language”?
Telemarketing instructor #2: Not at this call center.
Boston, Massachusetts
Peon on phone: She’s right that it doesn’t make sense, but it’s what we should do.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
HR rep: We'll go around the room, and I'd like you to introduce yourself and give tell us something about you.
Supervisor: Hello, my name is John, and I rule this lab with an iron fist.
Montreal
Canadia
Boss to office drone: Your monkey should be working.
Denver, Colorado
Co-worker #1: I pretty much hate that stupid nursing consultant.
Co-worker #2: I know. Me too.
Co-worker #1: She’s so phony. It’s ’cause she’s Southern.
Co-worker #2: I know! I hate Southerners! And I’m not even black!
Co-worker #1: Uh…what?
Co-worker #2: Well, you know. The slave thing. Don’t you hate her because of the slave thing?
Co-worker #1: Uh, no.
100 West Clarendon Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
