Employee to manager: Do you know how to talk to deaf people on the phone?
Williamsville, New York
Employee to manager: Do you know how to talk to deaf people on the phone?
Williamsville, New York
PA: Buffy Capri, please call the operator, Buffy Capri.
Secretary #1: Who the hell is Buffy Capri?
Secretary #2: I don’t know. An exotic dancer or a porn star?
Secretary #1: Buffy Capri, you’re wanted on the lido deck.
Secretary #3: She’s a paralegal. With a dumb name.
Atlanta, Georgia
VP on phone: What are you doing? (silence) Sounds like you’re taking a shit.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Professor walking into new chemistry building: Whoa, is this an optical illusion or is this reality?!
University of Arizona, Tucson
Overheard by: Rasputin
Peon, walking into boss’s office: What smells so good? It smells like my grandmother’s cooking.
Boss: Oh, Joan* brought pork chop for lunch. I guess she thought I was emancipated.
Peon, laughing and mumbling: She thought what?
Athens, Georgia
Coworker on phone: So I told our new accountant what I needed, and he looks at me and says: “But this will take me all day.” I told him: “It takes me all day to do my job too. Did you have other plans?”
3rd Avenue
New York City, New York
Building manager: Which is the drawer with all the tools?
Coworker: The middle bottom one.
Building manager (looking in tool box): Why do you guys have so many knives?
Coworker: It’s a long story.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/310713849/sounds-like-a-good-story.html
Overheard by: a diligent worker
Obnoxious server: Ewww, did you just fart, dude?
Timid new guy: Uh, no, I’m sorry.
Obnoxious server: Musta been me. Smells like pot roast, doesn’t it?
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Guy #1: I would do anything for a million dollars.
Guy #2: What about eat your arm?
Guy #1: I would eat any body part. It would grow back.
Girl: No! It won’t!
Guy #1: It might.
Girl: Great! I’ll go down to the missions downtown and tell the Vietnam veterans that they’re going to be walking soon.
Wyoming, Michigan
Supervisor to peon: Do you know how to get rid of tracked changes on a document?
Peon: Yes, do you want to accept the changes, or reject them?
Supervisor: No, I want them gone.
Peon: Yes, but do you want them to be incorporated into the document, or do you want to reject them.
Supervisor: They can’t be there! I have to send this document out! No tracked changes!
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Allison
