HR employee, eating jelly beans: I've segregated out the black ones because they're gross.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
HR employee, eating jelly beans: I've segregated out the black ones because they're gross.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Manager: Were we able to determine what the problem actually was?
Technician: No, but it sounded like something that had nothing to do with white people.
McLean, Virginia
Overheard by: Septimus
Coworker #1: I don't get why everyone's so upset about Mexicans coming into the US. I mean, they're already part of the country.
Coworker #2: Say what now?
Coworker #1: Mexico's part of the US, isn't it?
Coworker #2: Yeah, if by “part of the US” you mean a whole other friggin country.
Nursing Home
Pennsylvania
Overheard by: ah the future of america
Asian office girl: Yeah, my wedding is going to be a Western wedding and not a traditional Chinese one.
Blonde office girl: (silent and perplexed)
Asian office girl, noticing the confusion: Like, Western culturally. Not like cowboy-and-Indians Western, you know.
Blonde office girl: Ohhhh, okay! I was totally gonna say that would be a really weird wedding!
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: surrounded by idiots
Coworker #1, about Hispanic workers outside: I wonder if they are Mexican.
Coworker #2: They could be.
Coworker #3: Maybe they're Guatemalan.
Coworker #1: Or Puerto Rican.
Coworker #3: No, they're not Puerto Rican. They're not wearing purple.
Glens Falls, New York
Coworker to another: Don't trust him, he's evil and Singaporean. Double trouble!
Sydney
Australia
Supervisor: What are you eating?
Office minion: It's a Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme chocolate bar.
Supervisor: That looks gross! It's all black and white.
Office minion: Are you kidding? It's racial harmony in a bar.
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Meha
Director: How was your vacation?
African American employee: It was good.
Director: You're so dark you can lay in the sun for two minutes, then hang at the Tiki bar all day.
Park Ridge, New Jersey
Overheard by: Lucy
