A guy on the 2nd floor gets on an elevator for a 6 floor building.
All the buttons are lit.
Girl: I didn’t mean to do that. It just sorta happened…which floor are you going to?
Guy: Fortunately the fourth.
Girl: Oh. I would’ve felt bad if you had said the sixth.
Guy: Then I should’ve said the sixth floor.
They both got off on the fourth floor.
82 Wall Street
New York, NY
Overheard by: Monica Lewis
Man on phone: Did you find your tree? Did you hug your tree?
Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Black coworker: You're German?
White coworker with German last name: Yes.
Black coworker: How long you been German?
White coworker: Uh…since I was born.
Black coworker: I thought you were white!
Manhattan
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Animal
Executive VP: How do you spell “reasoning”?
Senior VP: Just like “seasoning”, but with an “r”.
Executive VP: How do you spell “seasoning”?
Lenox Road
Atlanta, Georgia
Male coworker: So are you going to go learn about Peruvian hamsters today?
Female coworker, sighing: Yes.
Male coworker: Do you think if we do this he'll be better?
Female coworker: I've realized that *nothing* that we do will make him better. So we might as well do the nice thing.
Male coworker: Damn!
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: rodents unite
Boss: So why aren't they meeting their targets?
Project manager: The original estimates assumed attrition, and they haven't had any. (awkward pause) Except death.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Coworker #1: I heard Sophia Loren was ill.
Coworker #2: Is that Ralph Lauren’s wife?
48th street
Pompano Beach, Florida
Co-worker #1: Is it bad to take holidays just after you start a
new job, like within the trial period?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, I took, like, 10 days in the first week of starting.
WCP Harlaw Road
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Scotland
Overheard by: JBlair
New lady at the office: I need two big ones. Do you have a big one?
Contractor: Yes, mine's at least 19 inches.
Washington, DC
Civil engineer: If cigarettes are bad for you, then why are they such big business? You wouldn’t be allowed to buy them if they killed you.
Environmental health and safety specialist: Do you ever pay attention to the words that come out of your mouth?
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: intern biologist
