Coworker on phone: Why do you need to know what type of printer I have?…Well, I guess I could read the name of the printer to you off of the printer, if you suggest that… Here’s the name written right here. It’s F then U, C. Are you writing this down? K and then Y. Then finally O, U…Hello, hello?
4175 Central Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana
Account manager: You did a fantastic job on these business cards!
Art director: Shut up! Don’t condense me.
Account manager: I’m serious! You’re a curiative genius!
214 West 39th Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: Trey Givens
Employee, about to move from a large cubicle to a much smaller one: It's like I'm going to be living in a brothel!
Coworker: I think you mean “slum.”
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Employee #1: He doesn’t do anything, but he makes great presentations.
Employee #2: He gives good slide?
Employee #1: Exactly.
600 Technology Park Drive
Billerica, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Jeff Dietz
Boss reviewing Myers Briggs Type Indicator results: I am surprised by Stan’s* P-ness. [Silence.] Well, Stan’s results show that he has a slight P-ness, and I was expecting him to not have any P in him at all. [Room erupts with laughter.]
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Overheard by: Still Laughing Inside
Old office assistant: Would you like a rubber finger?
Young assistant: Uhh…
Old office assistant: I'm going to give you the finger.
Towson University
Maryland
Engineer #1: July 21st–is that the equinox or the solstice? I always get the two mixed up.
Engineer #2 (home-schooled): I dunno… I don't know anything about that satanic stuff.
Mississippi
Dispatch: Got a report of a small black car going very fast.
Officer: Any other description besides “small black car”?
Dispatch: It's going very fast.
Officer: Thanks… Over.
Police Scanner
Oregon
Overheard by: Mike
Worker #1: Boy, you look tired…
Project Manager: Yeah, it’s been hectic. I need some of that geico balboa stuff.
Worker #1: Uh, ginko bilboa?
Project Manager: That’s what I said.
Worker #1: No, you said “geico balboa”.
Project Manager: What’s the difference?
Worker #1: Well, Geico is an insurance company, and Balboa is Rocky the boxer’s–as in the movie–last name.
Project Manager: Ha! I wonder if he gets a hard time for that.
Worker #1: He’s not a real person. Besides, I think what you meant was you needed some ginseng. Do you know what ginko bilboa is for?
Worker #2: Okay, seriously, how long is this meeting going to be?
6700 Hollister Road
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: Damien Sebastiani
Employee: I’ve been on e-mail since 5 AM, and all I see is incomptitude.
550 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: hearing it in stereo
