Is That a Tachometer?

Designer: You make it sound like I’m a used car.
Copywriter: I didn’t mean to. Nice dashboard, by the way.

Wausau, Wisconsin

Posted on July 23, 2008
Comebacks, Compare and contrast, Compliments, Default, Designers and Photographers, Wisconsin, Writers and Editors

By the Time You Get to the Racism, It’s Almost Refreshing

Accounting drone: Is someone eating fucking jockstraps and dirty socks now? There really needs to be some kind of restrictions on the food people are allowed to eat in here. How about a guideline like: “If it smells like a dead hooker, treat it like a dead hooker and eat it in your car.”? Thank god we don’t have any Indian programmers.

Milwaukee Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Posted on June 24, 2008
Coworkers, Cubicles, Default, Employees, Meals and Snacks, Offers and requests, Race, Sensory Experiences, Weirdness, Wisconsin

Tonight’s Movie: Guess Who’s Going to Hell?

IT guy to IT manager: Nice shoes, are they new?
IT manager: Yeah, but they’re too clean and white. They need to be scuffed up more.
IT guy: You know what they should do? They should make the seven-year old Taiwanese kids who sew these wear them for a few days first.
IT manager: Yeah, that’s perfect. Pre-scuffed shoes. They’d be flopping around in shoes way too big, but at least they’d have shoes for a few days.

Good Hope Road
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Posted on June 2, 2008
Clothes, Colors, Compliments, Coworkers, Default, Employees, Insults, Tech, Tech People, Weirdness, Wisconsin

I Believe the Correct Answer Is “World Peace,” Miss Wisconsin

Engrossed boss: I need some cheese balls, a highlighter and some tartar sauce.

60th Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Posted on May 23, 2008
Bosses, Default, Meals and Snacks, Offers and requests, Weirdness, Wisconsin

Which in Wisconsin Often Spells Frostbite

Female worker #1: You know he’s doing a show here, right?
Female worker #2: Oh, someone get me a tissue, my panties are wet.

Barnes & Noble
Greenfield, Wisconsin

Overheard by: darkhorse

Posted on April 24, 2008
Clothes, Coworkers, Default, Offers and requests, Questions, Retail, Sexuality, Wisconsin

You Can Watch the Movie During the Proceedings

Coworker #1: I have Popular, NipTuck, and Six Feet Under in my queue, but I’m really a movie whore.
Coworker #2: That’s good. Admitting you’re a whore is the first step towards actually getting paid for it.
Coworker #1: What the hell are you talking about?

Wausau, Wisconsin

Posted on March 28, 2008
Comebacks, Coworkers, Default, Technology, Wisconsin, Words

A Whore Gets Paid for It and a Tramp Eats Spaghetti with Dogs

Lady worker bee: C’mon, you know you were skanky before you got married.
Male worker bee: No, I wasn’t. I may have been a slut, but not a skank.
Lady worker bee: What’s the difference?
Male worker bee: A skank is a slut that doesn’t bathe.

4768 Church Road
Platteville, Wisconsin