Manager: How can they spend this much on marketing?
Old partner: They certainly blew their whole load for the year.
Deerfield, Illinois
Overheard by: cube noob
Casting assistant on phone: Yes, that should work. I have had lots of luck with the cocks in the past.
(silence)
Laughing casting assistant: Oh my god! I just realized how that sounded. (hysterically laughing) I meant Cox Net, I meant the email address. Oh god, I'm an idiot. I'm so sorry, miss.
New York City, New York
Sales guy: I couldn't believe it! In the middle of the meeting with Frank* there, he just flips his thong up on the desk!
Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Overheard by: good heavens
Boss to employee fixing phone lines: Where is Matt? He was just here.
Matt: I'm over here…under your wife's desk.
Brookhaven, Pennsylvania
Field tech: She wasn't bar hopping, she was boy hopping.
Sheridan College
Oakville
Canadia
CSR #1, deadpan: They do that on the phone sometimes. When you do that to me on the phone, you really get me.
CSR #2, excitedly: Yeah, oh yeah!
Chesapeake, Virginia
Overheard by: Ashleigh
Female accountant: I'll work on that when I feel less bitchy.
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canadia
Overheard by: Scarlett
Peon: I will lay pipe to get clients.
Boss: We will lose business if you do that. They'll be like “woah, they're inadequate. We're not working with those clowns again.”
International Place
Boston, Massachusetts
Cubicle chick on phone with boyfriend: It's your wandy thingy…your wand isn't good. You need a new wand. (pause). No, I'm not going to eat that!
Carol Stream, Illinois
Boss to peon: I tried googling “hamster mating rituals”.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
