Manager to another: No Pants Tuesday. Think of how productive we would be without the confining feeling of slacks! You don't even have to wear dungarees, or as I like to call them, “dungs.”
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Andréa Cecil
Manager to another: No Pants Tuesday. Think of how productive we would be without the confining feeling of slacks! You don't even have to wear dungarees, or as I like to call them, “dungs.”
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Andréa Cecil
Admin to boss: Well, you're totally opposite from me, but we have different brains.
Seattle, Washington
Overworked admin: I typed up that document for you.
Stressed-out peon: Thanks for saving me several hours of incompetent, fat, fingering.
Alexandria, Virginia
Overheard by: Roma Tekovi
Client staring at fish in tank: They are pretty when they swim around.
Hostess: Would you like to join them, sir?
Sandton
Johannesburg
South Africa
Teen intern: Is dirt alive?
Suitland, Maryland
Worker on phone to boyfriend: So you'll be waiting naked when I get home? Oooh…I'll come home naked.
Downers Grove, Illinois
Female coworker: What are you going to do with it? Eat it?
Male coworker: Well, for right now it's a pet…
Cincinnati, Ohio
Editor (talking about diabetic colleague): So, around five o'clock he walks by and he's holding a candy bar–a Snickers–and I'm like, what is this? Suicide? If he goes into convulsions, I'm just going to gather my stuff and stroll out of here.
Newsroom
Stafford, New Jersey
Overheard by: inothernews
University call center rep: Okay ma'am, what program were you interested in?
Prospective student: Well, I'm not exactly sure. I was thinking of something in prostitution. (pause) Oh, that's not right.
University Drive
Davie, Florida
Underling: I had something I need to talk to you about, but I can't remember it now.
Boss (grinning): Well, I'm not in your head so…
Underling: I need you inside my head.
Boss (grimacing): Uh…I don't think I want…
Underling (interrupting): No, the work side, not the porn side.
Route 9
Framingham, Massachusetts
