Did You at Least Get My Psychic Vibrations?

Sales rep: Why didn't you answer the IMs I sent you yesterday?
Designer: I was off yesterday.
Sales rep: You mean IMs don't go through if someone isn't online?
(designer stares)
Sales rep: What?

Howell, Michigan

Overheard by: Dunder MIfflin

Posted on August 29, 2008
Default, Designers and Photographers, Michigan, Questions, Sales, Technology

Should I Take Notes?

Project manager #1: I'm taking a class, but someone stole my notebook.
Project manager #2: Learning sucks… Let me tell you what I'm going to have for dinner.

Troy, Michigan

Overheard by: Then wouldn't I be learning?

Posted on August 27, 2008
Compare and contrast, Coworkers, Crimes, Default, Education, Meals and Snacks, Michigan, Offers and requests, Technology

In the Meantime, Play Fetch with the Virtual Dog

Office lady on phone to son: I don't know, I think we have it on tape… on tape. Video tape. No, not DVD, video tape. It's black and rectangular, and you put it in the VCR to watch movies. The VCR?… It's… look, just wait till I get home, okay?

Picktown, Ohio

Overheard by: trying not to laugh

Posted on August 15, 2008
Compare and contrast, Coworkers, Default, Family members, Ohio, On the phone, Technology

Besides, No One Should Commit Career Suicide Alone

Retail employee #1: I’m gonna have to leave early today, my friend and I are going to go and get the Wii.
Retail employee #2: Oooh, the weed? I want some!

Stonebriar Mall
Frisco, Texas

Posted on July 28, 2008
Compare and contrast, Default, Employees, Retail, Substance Use & Abuse, Technology, Texas, Wishes, Words

Sometimes You Have to Sedate the Boss and Use Your Own Judgment

Supervisor to peon: Do you know how to get rid of tracked changes on a document?
Peon: Yes, do you want to accept the changes, or reject them?
Supervisor: No, I want them gone.
Peon: Yes, but do you want them to be incorporated into the document, or do you want to reject them.
Supervisor: They can’t be there! I have to send this document out! No tracked changes!

Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Allison

Posted on July 23, 2008
Canadia, Coworkers, Default, Employees, General Idiocy, Questions, Technology

You’re Livin’ La Vida Loca, Ma’am

Boss: For an hour I’m going to do nothing but urinate. And then? Five minutes of blogging.

Los Angeles, California

Posted on July 15, 2008
Bosses, California, Default, Restroom, Technology, Time Management

Marie Is Too Pretty to Bother With Metaphors

Female coworker: What does “truncated” mean?
Male coworker: It’s like… If you shortened an elephant’s trunk, it would be truncated.
(pause)
Female coworker: But this e-mail doesn’t even say anything about elephants.

Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: Babar