Secretary on phone: I guess I don't need a tapeworm after all.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Secretary on phone: I guess I don't need a tapeworm after all.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lady worker answering phone: Hi Alex*! … I knew it was you because this is a 321* area code, and you work in Boston and it wasn’t your home number… And if it wasn’t you, then I was prepared for your boss to be calling me telling me you fell off a stool, hit your head, and wound up dead on the floor.
Indiana
Client on phone, returning from lunch: What, we have a meeting now? I’ll be there in ten minutes. Is [the boss] around?
Admin: Yeah, he’s right here.
Client: Good, go kick him in the shin for me.
Admin: Um, you’re on speakerphone.
Client: I hate you! How many times have I told you never to put me on speakerphone!?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Manager on phone: Is the Playboy pillow going back in?
Toronto
Canadia
Tech on phone in next cube: How can I help you? … Uh huh. Well like it said in the doc, you have to name the files alphabetically for that to work. … Alphabetically means from A to Z. … No, sir, you can’t name one file code_abc and the next one code_aba, a is before c… Yes, abz would work. … Numbers come before letters. … You’re welcome. [hangs up phone] Fuck this shit, I can’t even smoke it. I’m going home!
800 S Canal Street
Chicago, Illinois
Boss on phone: No, no, no, the corner office. Not the one with the goat beard!
11150 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Loud coworker on phone: Yeah, well, I haven't been having much sex… (pause) I mean success! …with that… either. (pause) Uh, I have to go…
Louisville, Colorado
Overheard by: Jen
VP yelling into phone: If I have the whale, then I’m king! Everyone has to follow me!
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Cubicle mate on phone: No, I know that, I'm just wondering if it's suitably shithole for a stag do.
Dublin
Ireland
Coworker #1: A lady just called wanting to speak to someone who knows Korean.
Coworker #2: Uh, oh. No one here does. So, what did you do?
Coworker #1: I transferred her over to the Ukrainian Village Branch. Ukrainia is near Korea, right?
7000 County Line Road
Burr Ridge, Illinois
