Philosophy

Female employee: Man, I’m soo busy today. Why is everyone taking advantage of me?
Male employee: I dunno.
Female employee: Oh well, maybe I just let people take advantage of me. It’s just easier that way.
Male employee: Some advice: don’t ever say that in a bar.

Motorola, 1301 East Algonquin Road
Chicago, Illinois

Database administrator #1: You can either spend half a day showing them how to do it and another three weeks constantly answering questions, or you can just take half an hour and write the code for them.
Database administrator #2: Well, we should teach them how to fish instead of just feeding them every day!
Database administrator #1: You can teach them how to fish, but they still won’t know how to write code.

880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, Florida

Chief accountant on phone: No, this is not a business. This is the U.S. government.

1660 S Columbian Avenue
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Rogue Peanut

Telemarketing lady: There’ll be no laughing in this office. That’s right, no levitation.

121 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ

Overheard by: Heidi Schwartz

Two real estate agents are returning from lunch.

Experienced agent: You’re never going to make any money if you keep getting drunk like this.

73 West 19th Street
New York, New York

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

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

1300 Arlington
Itasca, Illinois

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

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

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