Office girl: So, are you psyching yourself up to play the show tonight?
Office guy: Um, if by ‘psyching’ you mean ‘writing code,’ then yes, I am.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Naomi
Office girl: So, are you psyching yourself up to play the show tonight?
Office guy: Um, if by ‘psyching’ you mean ‘writing code,’ then yes, I am.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Naomi
Co-worker #1: I’m not sure that’s right, though. I pulled it out of my database.
Co-worker #2: Is that what you call your ass, sir, a database?
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Salted Fish
Manager: B.O.T.A. It's an anagram. Do you know what it stands for? “Bend over and take it up the ass.”
Employee: That's an acronym, not an anagram.
Manager: What? I didn't say acronym.
Oneonta, New York
Banker #1: How do you file an old CD referral?
Banker #2: Well you submit it and cancel it and submit it and cancel it and repeat that 5 times, and then wash your hands…Oh, I thought you said OCD referral. Like obsessive-compul–
Banker #1: I get it.
1241 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Teddy
Coworker on phone: You mean “s” as in “Frank”?
Morris, Illinois
Female worker #1: I told my customer we should be anthropologists. Do you know what anthropology is?
Female worker #2: You mean like the store?
Female worker #1: No, that's “Anthropologie” with an “i.”
Female worker #2. Then no.
Portland, Oregon
Office dweller #1: What is a civil servant?
Office dweller #2: Like someone that serves you in your house, like a butler.
Office dweller #1: Oh, I thought it was like a post office worker or something.
Office dweller #2: Nope, pretty sure it's a butler.
Cube world, San Diego
Overheard by: Tired of the nonsense
Ditzy office peon looking at pregnant celebrity in magazine: It looks like she's wearing one of those sha…sha-long things, ya know, that you carry a baby in.
Girl: Don't you mean “sarong”?
Male office peon: Hahaha you said “shlong”!
Central Avenue
Wood Dale, Illinois
Manager: We really need to work on proper pronunciation on the phones. We really hear a lot of this, and it definitely needs to be improved. For instance: How do you say a-s-k? Anyone? (pause) You say “ask” not “axed”!
Employee: Well, who say dat?
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: office grunt #12
