3PM Tea Run

Admin #1: Without extremes, normalcy wouldn’t exist.
Admin #2: Wow, we’re getting heavy now.
Admin #3: Back from tour one day, and you’re already waxing poetic?
Admin #1: Wait, isn’t that what fractals and Jurassic Park are about?
Admin #2 & 3: What?
Admin #1: Extremes, fractals and Jurassic Park. Wasn’t anyone a nerd like me?
Admin #2: Um, no.

3 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, New York

Posted on March 12, 2025
Admins, Arts, General Idiocy, Gripes, New York, Philosophy

2PM Setting Goals

CSR to manager: Sometimes there is a fine line between making people happy and getting them to shut up.

1300 Arlington
Itasca, Illinois

Posted on March 11, 2025
Customer Service, Illinois, Philosophy, Religion

9AM Back to Work

Attorney #1: I stepped on a baby bird this morning on the way into the courthouse.
Attorney #2: The jokes are right. We don’t have souls.

319 West Woodlawn Avenue
Louisville, Kentucky

Posted on March 6, 2025
Animals, Gripes, Kentucky, Lawyers, Philosophy

5PM That’s a Wrap

Worker on phone: I don’t care if you threw up or not, I’m not canceling that dentist appointment…Well, take some Tums and go anyway. If you have to throw up again, throw up on them; who cares?

321 Norristown Road
Ambler, Pennsylvania

Posted on February 22, 2025
Advice, Coworkers, Health & Hygiene, On the phone, Pennsylvania, Philosophy

5PM Happy Hour

Attorney: We’re smarter for making the correct decision to the everyday question: drink or work? Correct answer: drink and work.

717 Madison Place NW
Washington, DC

Posted on January 28, 2024
Philosophy, Smart Employees, Washington DC

5PM Out of Here

Suit: We don’t need to do that right away, we can do it tomorrow.
Boss: We should do it today. Why put off until tomorrow what we can do today?
Suit: I was thinking about killing you yesterday.

3 2nd Street
Jersey City, New Jersey

Overheard by: Hobo Whisperer

Posted on November 9, 2023
Bosses, Death, New Jersey, Philosophy, Suits, Time Management, Violence

4PM Clean Up Reports

Project Manager: We didn’t know the old system generated those reports.
CIO: Well, you can’t clean out an old warehouse without finding a few rat turds in the corner.

655 Engineering Drive
Norcross, Georgia

Posted on September 7, 2023
Bosses and Underlings, Georgia, Philosophy

I Don’t Think Buddha Pondered Much on Office Supplies

Co-worker #1: I hate not having a stapler.
Co-worker #2: But you have a stapler. It’s right there.
Co-worker #1: But I don’t have a stapler.
Co-worker #2: Are you Zen or something?
Co-worker #1: What do you mean?
Co-worker #2: It’s very Zen to have/not have a stapler.

551 Madison Avenue
New York, NY