Time Management

Junior art director: I have 44 minutes to make a baby.

303 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: wha?

Assistant: What are you up to?
Boss, gleefully: I’m fucking about!

Queen Street
Melbourne
Australia

Overheard by: Kate

Engineer: What’s the time frame on this? I don’t have time for it right now.
Project manager: ASAP, but it can wait for now.

Von Karman Avenue
Irvine, California

Analyst: We’re brilliant when we have nothing better to do than to be brilliant all day.

870 Market Street
San Francisco, California

Worker #1: So, what time do you usually stroll into the office in the morning? I’m assuming you’re not an eight AM guy…
Worker #2: What makes you think that?
Worker #1: I’m older — I know things.
Worker #2: And because I sprint into the office ’cause I’m always late.
Worker #1: So, what time is safe for a meeting? Meaning you need to be able to one: talk, two: listen, three: understand, and four: ask questions if you have them.

336 Robert Street
St. Paul, Minnesota

Overheard by: Justin

Manager: Hey, you got a sec?
Developer: What’s up?
Manager: I’m trying to figure out how much to charge the client for that new feature. How hard would it be for you to add it?
Developer, smirking: I can do it in 10 minutes… with my dick.
Manager: Sooo… about five hundred bucks then.

543 Richmond Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: laughing new guy

Receptionist: Well, I wouldn’t know. I don’t go into the men’s room.
Cintas lady: That’s where I get most of my pleasure at!

8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Nikki