Loud secretary: What do you call people who are from Dutch?
Princeton, New Jersey
Overheard by: Hiding in cubicle
Loud secretary: What do you call people who are from Dutch?
Princeton, New Jersey
Overheard by: Hiding in cubicle
Attorney on phone with secretary: Hello. (pause) A package? Who's it from? He brought it by hand? Can you open it for me? Just want to make sure it isn't a bomb. (pause) What? No, not like that, I mean a legal bomb. Like detrimental paperwork.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Office Manager
Office girl: Is the company starting a cloning program? You two are exactly the same.
New girl #1: Yeah, I know…except that she had a baby, and I didn't.
New girl #2: Right, so the only way you can tell the difference between us is the size of our hoo-hoos.
Scarborough
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: C.note
Person #1: Where are you going?
Person #2: To the elevator.
Person #1: Why are you going that way?
Person #2: Because that is the way I know.
Person #1: You are so British.
Office
New York City, New York
Co-worker: Where do we sign up for that class? Ass-kissing 101?
‘Cause I think I have this negative reaction to it that’s holding me back, and I think that a class could really help me break down barriers.
1910 Pacific Avenue
Dallas, Texas
Editor #1: I have finger toes.
Photographer: You mean like long and bony?
Editor #1: Yeah, I can, like, pick stuff up with them.
Editor #2: Do you pinch people with them?
Editor #1: Yeah. I always pinch [my wife]. She hates it.
Editor #2: God is just preparing you for when you lose your arms.
333 North Meridian
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: fransen comes alive
Part time girl: Isn't it illegal to work five days in a row?
Coworker: That's what normal people do.
Part time girl: Oh…that sucks.
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Nicole
Exec: Look, I don’t care about the Weekly World News. All I want to know is how this affects the Bigfoot cover!
Star Magazine
1 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Suit #1: Hey, did the DB team ever send you that data for your report?
Suit #2: No.
Suit #1: Can't you just make up the numbers?
Suit #2: I would, but I already made up 60% of the numbers in the report.
Suit #1: 60%?
Suit #2: Yeah, generally 40% of the numbers in a report have to be accurate. It's an accepted standard.
Cleveland, Ohio
Assistant: Can you stick around? I need supervision for this.
Manager: Really? I'd rather have super hearing than super vision. (pause) Oh, you meant “supervision,” didn't you?
Assistant: Do you think someone else could help me with this?
Baltimore, Maryland
