Male staffer: There may be a problem.
Female manager: With what?
Male staffer: I was just typing an e-mail about a birth certificate. Twice I typed “bitch” instead of “birth”.
Female manager: Oooh!
Male staffer: I corrected it before I sent it, though.
Female manager: Thank goodness. (pause) Gotta say, though, that I would love to have a bitch certificate. I mean, I do just fine without one, but it would be nice to have the formal recognition.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Michael
Indignant office girl: So she was like “and I'm going to so-and-so cafe and I'm eatin' so-and-so…”
Nashville, Tennessee
Tech guy: And then you hit CTRL+P to finish processing the claim.
Coworker: But it's not letting me CTRL+P. Why can't I control my p?
Victoria
Canadia
Supervisor to associate, about smell complaints: Maybe it's something in your drawers… Umm…I mean your desk drawers.
Rancho Cucamonga, California
Male cube dweller: Seth finally drilled my hole last night.
Female cube dweller: What?
Male cube dweller: Seth finally drilled a hole in my wall, so I can have cable.
Female cube dweller: That sound better.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: greasymittens
Admin on phone: I’m sorry I just wanted to double check that you received it. I am a bit of a wigger.
Pause.
Admin: Wigger? You know, I wig out about stuff.
Pause.
Admin: No, I don’t know another meaning to the word wigger, but I guess it’s bad since your’re telling me not to say it.
333 Earle Boulevard
Uniondale, New York
Cubicle dweller: Yeah, it's humongous! I have a picture of it!
Rockefeller Center
Manhattan, New York
Older male student records assistant on phone: Does the word “Firefox” mean anything to you?
Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Seaman, next to air force guys: I love Dick's! (pause) The restaurant, that is.
Airman: We always knew there was something about you seamen.
San Antonio, Texas
Overheard by: I like them too.
Manager: He’s so dumb he couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.
2000 North Andrews Avenue Ext.
Pompano Beach, Florida
