Employee, returning after a month away: Hey, you've lost weight!
Manager: Thanks! I've been…
Employee: No, wait, you just got your hair cut. Nevermind.
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indianapolis
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Employee, returning after a month away: Hey, you've lost weight!
Manager: Thanks! I've been…
Employee: No, wait, you just got your hair cut. Nevermind.
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indianapolis
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Coworker #1 (looking in the mirror): Did you notice that I was wearing blue eyeshadow today?
Coworker #2: No, I didn't.
Coworker #1: Thought it would bring out my blue eyes, but it just makes me look like a whore…
Addison, Texas
Overheard by: emily
Male office drone #1: I was just talking to a bunch of people and I realized afterwards that I had ChapStick all over my face. That's just great.
Male office drone #2: The same thing happens to me, except with lipstick.
Mesa, Arizona
Woman: I CC'd my daughter on it and she wrote back. What grandma is trying to say is that you won't get through security dressed like that. But, apparently, the dog collar is already gone because he was allergic to it.
Alexandria, Virginia
Man #1: Your hair's much longer than last time I saw you.
Man #2: I accidentally shaved too close and kept going.
Woman: Yeah, it was really short then…like serial killer hair.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Receptionist #1: So she got a new hair do.
Receptionist #2: Yes, braids, is it inappropriate to comment on them?
Receptionist #1: We could tell her that her hair looks…ethnic?
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Anne
Office philosopher: Short people can't be trusted. Too close to the ground. You know, where the devil is.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Female Asian coworker: I need to lose weight. I'm considered fat for an Asian girl.
Male Asian coworker: But you're more like a black girl. Asian men don't want the normal Asian girl. We're tired of body surfing!
Chambers Street
New York City, New York
Overheard by: uncivil servant
Older female accountant: You’re looking more like Burt Reynolds each day.
Younger male accountant: He’s old, what are you saying?
Older female accountant: No, like… In a good way… When he was sexy and young.
Younger male accountant: (silence)
Older female accountant: I should get back to work.
Independence, Ohio
Co-worker: I’m not getting promoted because I don’t show enough cleavage.
Baltimore, Maryland
