Project manager: So there's a naughty spot in the bowling alley?
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: stop talking, start working please
Project manager: So there's a naughty spot in the bowling alley?
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: stop talking, start working please
Coworker: So this e-mail came in, in Dutch writing, so how would I find out if it came from Australia?
Call Center
Northeast Pennsylvania
Student: Is Sarah* out sick today?
Boss: No, she had to run some errands, she will be in shortly.
Worker: I knew it, she had to get the morning after pill!
(everyone laughs)
Boss to worker: Yeah, because you're so stingy with yours!
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Employee: I ordered 2448 washers today! What did you get done?
Boss: I took a big shit this morning.
Philadelphia, PA
Lab tech, during fire evacuation: Paul*, get out of the shade. It’s not in the safety zone.
Paul: But I’m fat. I can’t stand in the sun.
650 Cathill Road
Sellersville, Pennsylvania
Male employee: I think that guy was flirting with you.
Female employee: What are you talking about?
Male employee: You are like the workplace poster girl. Crap, is that harassment?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Centerfold
Employee: Ew! You’re dousing your sandwich in tabasco sauce!
Intern: I’m dousing it in self-hatred.
4 W. Oakland Avenue
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Vivian X
Boss to coworker #1: You know, you have quite the filthy mouth! Filthy, filthy!
Coworker #2 to boss: Like you don't!
Boss to coworker #2: Fuck you!
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Manager #1: Are we meeting sometime, today?
Manager #2: We already met.
Manager #1: Oh. Did I miss anything important?
Manager #2: Well, you missed the meeting.
19 N. 6th Street
Reading, Pennsylvania
Assistant editor, on Thursday: They want to get started on the Monday business page tonight.
Copy editor: How can you do that? What news are going to use?
Assistant editor: Well, we never use “real” news on Mondays.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Art Department
