Male boss: Are those cupcakes handmade?
Female subordinate: We don't do hand jobs here!
Washington, DC
Overheard by: This isn't Starbucks
Male boss: Are those cupcakes handmade?
Female subordinate: We don't do hand jobs here!
Washington, DC
Overheard by: This isn't Starbucks
Girl on intercom: Happy hour is now beginning in the upstairs happy room.
(intercom off, then back on)
Man: You are all a bunch of bitches.
Washington, DC
Girl associate #1: She has to send everything to do with my client through me! So I emailed her and copied her boss and everyone, basically telling her so.
Girl associate #2: Did it work? What did she say?
Girl associate #1: Yeah, but I didn’t even understand what she was talking about and I had way too much to do and so I just told her to take care of it. I so need an assistant.
Girl associate #2: Yeah…
2025 E St, NW
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Red
Coworker: Hey, I may be dumb but I’m not stupid!
1400 AF Street
Washington, DC
Boss: They're all pissed off cuz I yelled at them. I don't know why I yelled at them. It just felt good.
Washington, DC
New lady at the office: I need two big ones. Do you have a big one?
Contractor: Yes, mine's at least 19 inches.
Washington, DC
Boss talking about movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: And he sees the body out of the corner of his eye just when you’re thinking that, and he turns and pees on it…
Female cube rat: We just had a seminar on our sexual harassment policy, and I am offended by that. I should report you.
Boss: Go ahead, I have pictures and emails.
Male cube rat: Do we have an official blackmail policy?
Black male cube rat: I take offense to that.
1771 N Street
Washington, DC
Overheard by: afraid to speak
28-year-old coworker, on 24-year-old boyfriend: I'm totally a cougar.
Washington, DC
Finance: The pills the pharmacy gave me for my back looked funny. They were supposed to be oval and yellow but they are more long and white.
VP: So did you find out what the problem was?
Finance: Well, I called the pharmacy and they said that they had mistakenly given me anti-psychotics instead of my back medicine.
666 11th Street NW
Washington, DC
Girl on phone: I’ve been doing kegels for a week and I haven’t pooped. I think I’m doing something wrong.
In front of Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Neena
