Questions

Co-worker: Where the fuck are the urinals?
Stall: Wrong bathroom, buddy.

1055 North Cruise Boulevard
Port of Miami, Florida

Overheard by: WordPower

Editor #1: Should we tell the author we lost that whole section of the manuscript?
Editor #2: No, let’s not announce that we’re incompetent.
Editor #1: Yeah, let’s let it be a surprise.

8700 Shoal Creek Boulevard
Austin, Texas

Co-worker #1: Oh, you have some good supplies. Anything I can steal?
Co-worker #2: Uh, you can have some markers.
Co-worker #1: No, that’s okay; I’ve got markers up the ass.

633 North St. Clair Street
Chicago, Illinois

Sales Manager: How am I supposed to give you the Heimlich if you have your door shut?

2176 Avenue C
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Temp: I have a few questions about the PowerPoint project that I’m trying to get my head around.
Manager: Okay.
Temp: So what do you want again?
Manager: I just want a template…Something visual that we can use over and over.
Temp: What do you want in it?
Manager: I don’t know. That’s why I want a template. So I need you to create something that looks like the department standard, with our logo and so on, the right corporate background color, with dummy copy as placeholders.
Temp: So where do I find the words you want in it?
Manager: They don’t exist yet. We’re working on that. That’s why it’s a template and not a final project.
Temp: So what do you want in all the boxes?
Manager: Nothing. Just a place so I can go in and write it. I just want a formatted background and text boxes in place.
Temp: Right, but what should I put in the text boxes?
Manager: Whatever you want.
Temp: So let me get this right: You want me to create a PowerPoint with place for different words.
Manager: Yes.
Temp: But you don’t know what the words are?
Manager: That’s why it’s a template.
Temp: I see. So I will just use one of the PowerPoint templates.
Manager: No. It needs to be in the style of the company. Those are too generic.
Temp: I’m confused.
Manager: It seems so.
Temp: Can I just do it in Word?

111 East 59th Street
New York, NY

Manager: Why are you sending me comps at 1:30 in the morning?
Designer: Because I wanted to work on them at home, and then when I was home I couldn’t work on them until Loveline was on the air and I could listen to some relationship advice at the same time.
Manager: Oh, that makes perfect sense.

2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington

Exec: Who made a mess over here by the shredder?
Assistant: I was throwing confetti at myself.

640 5th Avenue
New York, NY

Sales #1: You mean he wants to get paid for the time he was screwing the company?
Sales #2: That’s what he said.

12 Nijara Street
Givat Shaul, Jerusalem
Israel

Overheard by: just dunno

Nursing Aide: What do I do?
CSR: Just fill out the brown application.
Nursing Aide: Okay, I filled out my name, but where do I put my address?
CSR: No ma’am, the brown application. That is a calendar.

99 Hudson Street
New York, NY

Overheard by: praying I don’t need medical attention

Physical Therapist: How are you today?
Patient: No good.
Physical Therapist: That’s too bad. Why not?
Patient: Because I would rather eat my own foot off than talk to you.

275 South 5th Avenue
Pocatello, Idaho