Interviewer: So what else can you tell about yourself?
Interviewee: I am a very hard worker and learnative.
Menlo Park, California
Interviewer: So what else can you tell about yourself?
Interviewee: I am a very hard worker and learnative.
Menlo Park, California
Coworker: Name three adjectives that you think best describe you.
Intern prospect: Adjectives…is that like “beautiful”?
Coworker: Uh, yeah…
Intern prospect: Okay: I'm patient, organized and I'm a good communicator…but I don't know how to say that.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: seriously
Extremely loud cube rat: Okay, let me check on that for you. That is “c” as in “Sam”?
Troy, New York
Overheard by: Sneaker
Analyst #1: I have a whole case of water in my car.
Analyst #2: Hoe cakes?
Sugar Land, Texas
Overheard by: Say What?
Director: How do you spell “dumb”? “D-u-m” or “d-u-m-e”?
Account executive: It's “d-u-m-b.”
Director: What?
Account executive: “D-u-m-b.” B, b, b…like “boy.”
Director: What about boys?
40th & Lexington
New York City, New York
Office drone: I know that, I'm not stupidity.
5th Avenue
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Apparently I'm With Stupid
Male coworker: So, I met my brother's married Russian fiancee over the weekend…
Female coworker: Those four words should never be in the same sentence!
Rochester Hills, Michigan
Overheard by: KDog
Trader #1: I'm down.
Partner: I wish I were down as much as I'm down.
Trader #2: Doesn't he mean he wishes he were down as much as you are down?
Trader #1: It's okay, my dad messes up all the time too. I just translate in my head.
New York City, New York
Overheard by: dp
Assistant controller: I was teased a lot as a child.
Clerk: You were tea bagged a lot as a child? I wouldn't tell people that.
Assistant controller: No! I said “teased”! What the heck is “tea bagged”?
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: Lexie
Beautiful supervisor on phone: How did that project I gave you go?
Tech support specialist: Well, I ran into a couple of…snatches.
Beautiful supervisor: Okay, well, I will come help you out.
Tech support specialist, hanging up phone: I meant to say “glitches,” I meant to say “glitches”!
Orlando, Florida
Overheard by: Tech Anthony
