Potential new hire: Hi, I'm Julie.
Existing employee Nice to meet you. Congratulations.
Potential new hire: Thanks. I hope it works out.
Existing employee: Okay then. Get well soon.
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Potential new hire: Hi, I'm Julie.
Existing employee Nice to meet you. Congratulations.
Potential new hire: Thanks. I hope it works out.
Existing employee: Okay then. Get well soon.
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Employee #1: Look at all that food you have there.
Employee #2: It’s going to give me a heart attack, but I love it; especially all the greasy bacon and sausage.
Employee #3: I wish I knew someone who knows CPR in case you have a coronary.
Employee #2: [Sean] and [Gina] are medics, they should know CPR.
Employee #1: What do they know about CPR? They are ambulance drivers.
2727 Walker Avenue NW
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Boss: Sometimes I wish all our clients would just die.
Brisbane
Australia
Loud partner to secretary, giving his lunch order: I don't want it spicy, but I don't want it un-spicy.
Secretary, pretending she knows exactly what he means: Oh, sure, okay.
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: first year associate
Operations manager: What are some of your goals?
New hire: I want to have babies!
Operations manager: Ok… Do you have any goals in regards to your future with our company?
New hire: Sure, I want to do my job right, but I was really just born to have babies.
Dallas Parkway
Dallas
Overheard by: Addy
Secretary: I'm getting an iPad.
Office tech: Oh, don't get one! I need to tell you all about it.
Secretary: I don't want to hear it.
Office tech: You don't want to know my opinion?
Secretary: No, you bore me, and you can't afford one anyway.
Auburn, Indiana
Coworker #1: Ugh. I don't feel like being at work today.
Coworker #2: I know. Don't you ever wish you could just fall out of bed in the morning and break both your legs so you could take a sick day?
Chicago, Illinois
Coworker to another: I can't wait to see your wife's baby making place.
Atlanta, Georgia
Coworker #1: About that e-mail you sent… Do you want me to copy the file onto a disc and mail it or do you want me to send the file as an e-mail attachment?
Coworker #2: So you can't just copy the file to a disc and e-mail the disc?
Brentwood, Tennessee
Sales rep on cell: I hope it's not your spleen! Okay, gotta go, Chinese food is here.
Newton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Well they DO make great orange chicken…
