Questions

What Happens When You Learn History on a Hippie Commune

Maintenance idiot: How do you think they came up with that whole groundhog thing?
Electronics clerk: What groundhog thing?
Maintenance idiot: You know, the groundhog sees his shadow and we have six more months of winter. How do you think they came up with that idea?
Electronics clerk: Ummmm… It’s six weeks…
Maintenance idiot: I bet it was all of those animal activist settlers back when they came to America, or something.
Electronics clerk: Animal activist settlers?

Ft. Smith, Arkansas

Overheard by: i love my job

“So long as you don’t upload a virus.”

Technician: Hi, can I get under your desk for a second to look at your box?

1440 Broadway
New York, NY

Worst. Second Job. Ever.

Interviewer: In you medical record it states you had tuberculosis, how did you come across that?
Former sailor/job seeker: I dunno… Probably the whorehouses.

La Plata, Maryland

Overheard by: Got the job ayway!

Career Tip: Slow Readers Resent Duplicate Emails

Coworker to office administrator: Why did you send me this e-mail twice?
Office admin: Because they sent it to me twice.
Coworker: So why did you send it to me twice?
Office admin: Because I thought it would only take you five seconds to delete.
Coworker: Didn't you look at it before you sent it to me?
Office admin: Yes… but I didn't send you the pornographic e-mail that came in before that one!

Ottawa
Ontario
Canadia

Career Tip: Offer to Speak to the Customer For Your Boss

Boss, with customer on phone, to secretary: Mr Smith* says he doesn't understand this bill you sent him.
Secretary, quietly, from across the room: It isn't complicated, can't he read?
Boss, loudly, next to phone: Yes, he can read!

Winchester, Virginia

3PM Internship

Boss: How many servers do you think Google has?
Lackey: Infinite.
Boss: Infinite? You’re a retard.

15 Alatarinda Road
Orinda, California

Overheard by: choking on a brownie

3PM Meeting

Employee #1: Where the hell were you?
Employee #2: In the bathroom.
Employee #1: For twenty minutes? God, I thought you were sleeping with the feces.

320 17 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia

Single-User Databases Leave Everyone Unsatisfied

Supervisor: Can you pull out of there now?
Peon: I'm not quite done with it yet.

Sacramento, California

We're All Scared Of the X-File

Finance clerk: Every time she comes in here, he grabs it and pulls it out, and she runs away.

Vienna, Virginia

Overheard by: Receptionitis

12PM Mail Invoices

Co-worker #1: So do they have offices in the Northern part of Texas?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, like up in that chimney portion of the state.
Co-worker #1: Oh. I’ll show you a fire.
Co-worker #2: What?

611 North Broadway
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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