Pennsylvania

Tax preparer, tasting the coffee: This tastes like diluted water!

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: wondering how you dilute water…

Cube rat #1: Could you stop? That's annoying me.
Cube rat #2: Jim, feel free to suck it.

Radnor, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: CubeKing

Old lady coworker, about four-year-old niece: I’m minding Lydia* tonight, so I thought I’d leave early to read the directions on the macaroni and cheese.

1500 JFK Boulevard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: it takes an hour

Gay coworker to straight coworker: Hey, look, it's my work husband–love you!

Columbia, Pennsylvania

50-something coworker: Oh, tell him your cross-dressing story!
20-something coworker: Which one?
50-something coworker: The one from the weekend!
20-something coworker: Oh, right!

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Good Weekend, Huh?

Manager: We really need to work on proper pronunciation on the phones. We really hear a lot of this, and it definitely needs to be improved. For instance: How do you say a-s-k? Anyone? (pause) You say “ask” not “axed”!
Employee: Well, who say dat?

Wayne, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: office grunt #12

Frustrated coworker to outside vendor: I must have gotten the confused department, because they don't know what they're doing.

East Petersburg, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Michelle

Girl office worker, pointing to three-ring binder: Oh! You have a pretty purple one!
Male coworker: Go ahead and take it.
Girl office worker: Oh, it?s too small. I need a big pretty purple one.
Male coworker: Insert your own joke here.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sales director on phone: Geeze, people are after our chicken like crack. Our chicken is crack!

Ronks, Pennsylvania

Sole African American lady in office: Man! If she sticks her head any farther up the boss' ass, she'll look like me!

Jeannette, Pennsylvania