Smart Bosses

Employee, to boss : These internet blocks suck. I just got kicked off for trying to google whether or not Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite!
Boss : Well, try to remember to look it up when you get home.

Providence, Rhode Island

VP: We learn much faster when there is a gun to our head.

910 Lousiana Street
Houston, Texas

Clerk: Okay, you have 12:45 and 1:45 subcommittees, AG is at 1:00, and Natural Resources is at 2: 00. I’m going to leave everything here on my desk and go do some work in the back office.
Senator: Do you even think I’m listening to you?
Clerk: No, not really.

State Capitol
Des Moines, Iowa

Hostess: I once gave everyone in my restaurant an Adderall. We had never been more efficient!

Charlotte, North Carolina

Boss on phone: That is not clinical! Being an asshole is not a clinical condition.

Ginko Industrial Park
Warminster, Pennsylvania

Teacher: There are a lot of hipsters there, but they’re older.
Teaching coordinator: Oh, let’s be honest. Those aren’t hipsters.
They’re hobos.

Royce Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Boss on phone: Excuse me? I’m sorry, I don’t speak stupid, let me get one of my employees to speak to you.

Coppell, Texas

Overheard by: Luckily, it wasn’t me.

Talkative grunt: That was a joke. I’m a comedian. Don’t worry. I’ll be here all week.
Boss walking by: Don’t count on it.

Senlac Drive
Dallas, Texas

Overheard by: I miss the days of job security

Office drone #1: Where is the Pentagon?
Office drone #2: It is in Washington, DC…
Office drone #1: Oh! Isn’t it that big hexagon shaped building?
Office manager: [Walking away] Oh Jesus fucking Christ…

Washington Avenue
Portland, Maine

Overheard by: brian brinegar

Underling to boss, incredulous: The lord was cock-blocking you?!
Boss: Sure! It’s in the bible!

Los Angeles, California