Office Politics

Office manager: Why aren't you wearing a tie today?
Worker: Oh, well… I'm going to see a client, so I didn't think I needed one on today.
Office manager: All the more reason to wear a tie.
Worker: Well, I'm in the office, so I didn't think that I had to wear one.
Office manager, pulling out employee handbook: It says right here: “all employees must always be dressed appropriately. Men wearing dress slacks, button-down shirt, and tie.”
Worker: Oh! See, ties don't really work for me. But that's okay, right?

Staten Island

Co-worker #1: I’m waiting for your response.
Co-worker #2: I just said something!
Co-worker #1: Oh, I can’t tell when you’re talking to me or to yourself.

330 Madison Ave
New York, NY

Overheard by: LRC

Head of HR: I bet you he’s [the COO] a total virgin. Probably even a hand virgin.

402 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, California

Guy #1: Hey, remember me? I worked with you guys before.
Guy #2: Yeah, yeah I remember.
Guy #1: Yeah, my mom called here and fired me.

272 E. Main Street
Patchogue, New York

Overheard by: Andrew G

Guy: I just don’t think it’s right that they killed [Terry Schiavo]just because she had a disability.

350 5th Avenue
New York, NY

Boss: So how are you doing? Is everything all squared away?
Peon: If by “squared away”, you mean multiple projects strewn across my desk in varying degrees of completion, then yes.
Boss: OK, good. Let me know if you need anything.

600 Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas

Boss: It’s my job to eavesdrop on people. That’s why I like to talk really loud, so that when it’s quiet people think I’m not here.

Schofield Barracks
Hawaii

Lady VP: I left on good terms. Not necessarily with the people I worked with, but definitely the people I worked for.

4 Times Square
New York, NY

Female employee: I have to wear shoes with heels because it’s seen as “professional.”
Male employee: You may as well be wearing a burkha.

11 W. 53rd Street
New York, NY

Japanese engineer: So how is Detroit?
American engineer: Well, Detroit is what Chicago would look like if a nuclear bomb blew up there.
Japanese engineer: Nuclear bomb?
American engineer: Yeah, you know, like what a city would look like after you dropped a nuclear bomb on it. Kinda like that.

300 Takatsuka
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
Japan