Coworker on phone: Yeah, I’ll be over later, but without the ticks.
Johnson City, Tennessee
Coworker on phone: Yeah, I’ll be over later, but without the ticks.
Johnson City, Tennessee
Employee to manager: Do you know how to talk to deaf people on the phone?
Williamsville, New York
PA: Buffy Capri, please call the operator, Buffy Capri.
Secretary #1: Who the hell is Buffy Capri?
Secretary #2: I don’t know. An exotic dancer or a porn star?
Secretary #1: Buffy Capri, you’re wanted on the lido deck.
Secretary #3: She’s a paralegal. With a dumb name.
Atlanta, Georgia
VP on phone: What are you doing? (silence) Sounds like you’re taking a shit.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Coworker on phone: So I told our new accountant what I needed, and he looks at me and says: “But this will take me all day.” I told him: “It takes me all day to do my job too. Did you have other plans?”
3rd Avenue
New York City, New York
Phone girl #1: It has smelled like stuff in here all day.
Phone girl #2: I know, it’s like food just walked over here.
New York City, New York
School administrator on phone: Hello. Has my cat peed yet? Great!
Elite Prep School
California
Mother shouting on cell: How the fuck do I know what he eats? I’m his mother, not his nanny.
New York City Library, New York
Overheard by: Took care of my own children
Receptionist on phone: Did you finish it? What did it say? What do elephants have to do with anything?
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Overheard by: Faith
Office worker, every time her phone rings: Fuck. What now?
Mississauga
Canadia