Creative director: Okay, well… just… put it on the back burner for now. And maybe it will go away.
Art director: I like where your head is at.
Ad agency
Hudson Valley, New York
Overheard by: Staci Lynn
Creative director: Okay, well… just… put it on the back burner for now. And maybe it will go away.
Art director: I like where your head is at.
Ad agency
Hudson Valley, New York
Overheard by: Staci Lynn
Co-worker: It’s been my 12th year in this godforsaken country and I never made it past Baltimore.
2910 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Shara Jenkins
Wine tech #1: So I heard you are going to France next week.
Wine tech #2: Yup. Next thursday.
Wine tech #1: So how long will it take you to drive there?
8555 Sonoma Highway
Santa Rosa, California
Boss, explaining new computer system: So, you should be using this screen 60% of the time, and then 30% of the time you use the other.
Gypsy Bar
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: huh
CSR: Here’s the agenda. You’ll notice my name is missing from the list because I plan on going home at 4PM.
Admin: I notice [Dawn] isn’t on the list either.
CSR: That’s because I figure wherever I put her on the list, she’ll end up under the guy’s table anyway.
3601 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Coordinator
Administrator: How was your Christmas?
Boss: Great. Now all I want is to get some sleep and find my underwear.
3740 Mill Creek Road
Mentone, California
Head of IT: Can we get those new computers?
CFO: Sorry, it’s not in the budget this year.
He walks over to the calendar.
CFO: Hey, isn’t this last year’s calendar? When are you going to put up the correct one?
IT Drone: Sorry, a new calendar isn’t in the budget this year.
75 South Church Street
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Joe
Coworker: Hey, are you doing Lego naked in there?!
Waterloo, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: The joys of a home office
Boss #1: Did you prepare an overview of the meeting for the lab?
Boss #2: No.
Boss #1: Why not?
Boss #2: I didn’t go.
Boss #1: Oh, yeah, I went to the meeting.
Lab member: Did you prepare a overview?
Boss #1: No.
Clinical Science Research Building
Saint Louis, Missouri
Grunt #1: I figured out the perfect way to get the TV remote from my wife late at night.
Grunt #2: Yeah?
Grunt #1: I act horny. She’d rather give up the TV than give up the ass.
46 South Illinois Street
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
