Male cube dweller: Hey, have you ever had armadillo meat?
Female cube dweller: Yeah, all the time! It’s awesome with onions!
Vancouver, Washington
Overheard by: Armadillo What…
Male cube dweller: Hey, have you ever had armadillo meat?
Female cube dweller: Yeah, all the time! It’s awesome with onions!
Vancouver, Washington
Overheard by: Armadillo What…
IT guy: The serial number is T as in ‘Thomas,’ X as in ‘zebra…’
Ephrata, Washington
Overheard by: Lost in Space
Female employee, about boring task: There's a big difference between sucking for 20 minutes and sucking for 8 hours.
Tacoma, Washington
Overheard by: As in a difference per hour?
Demanding colleague Give it! Give it!
Allergic colleague: (sneezes)
Demanding colleague: Um. That wasn't what I meant.
Harbor Island, Washington
Overheard by: Not unless you hid it in your nose…
Editor: It occurs to me that a pomegranate was not the best choice for fruit to eat at my desk.
2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington
Trainee#1: I'm just kissing your ass!
Trainee#2: You picked the wrong ass to kiss. My ass can't do shit!
Ellensburg, Washington
Human resources drone: I mean, we have some wine here but as the human resource person, I can't advocate for us drinking it while at work. I mean, we are a work-free environment.
Seattle, Washington
Coworker: This room just reeks of failure.
Kirkland, Washington
Male coworker: So are you going to go learn about Peruvian hamsters today?
Female coworker, sighing: Yes.
Male coworker: Do you think if we do this he'll be better?
Female coworker: I've realized that *nothing* that we do will make him better. So we might as well do the nice thing.
Male coworker: Damn!
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: rodents unite
Engineer #1: Are we really sure this is the best tool for what we’re doing?
Manager, shrugging: We’re eating our own dog food.
Engineer #2: We are not. It’s more like we’re feeding dog food to our cats.
411 1st Avenue South
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: engineer #3
