Male coworker: I heard you failed your test.
Female coworker: I didn't really fail. I just got like a really, really low score.
Houston, Texas
Male coworker: I heard you failed your test.
Female coworker: I didn't really fail. I just got like a really, really low score.
Houston, Texas
Coworker #1: Oh my god, I'm so tired, can we get coffee?
Coworker #2: Sure, I'll just finish this… (phone rings)
Coworker #1, answering phone: Good morning, Melody sleeping!
White Plains, New York
Overheard by: V
Employee #1: Is [Morgan] a man?
Employee #2: What do you mean?
Employee #1: Is [Morgan] a he or a she?
1559 Brunswick Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadia
Manager #1: Are you writing “I hate you” in all the languages you know?
Manager #2: Yes.
Manager #1: So cultured.
Manager #2: How many languages do you know?
Manager #1: I took eight years of french.
Manager #2: Oh, are you fluent?
Manager #1: I can find the mall.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: in your office listening to your convos
New mother, about boss’s new book: I’ll pop a boob out while I’m looking at the book. [Coworkers look shocked.] Oh, no! I meant while I’m breastfeeding!
Navy Yard
Washington, DC
Person #1: Where is Marcelo?
Marcelo (walking in conference room): You didn't tell me the time of the meeting changed! You gave me your shaft!
(silence, followed by uncontrollable laughter)
Person #2: Whoever is teaching Marcelo English slang, please stop.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: Highly Amused
Account director: Are you slammed?
Designer: Yeah, I’m juggling David’s* package along with everything else.
111 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Hear No Evil
Young female coworker: Don't take me seriously. I mean, seriously!
Austin, Texas
Project manager: So, when Janet* gets it from both sides next week… Do you think that is what Craig* and Barbara* really want?
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: The Quiet Consultant
VP: Yeah, and if we go over there, we could get all our stuff back. We have a whole bunch of equipment in China stuck in escargot.
Director: Um…You mean escrow?
VP: What did I say? Escargot? Well that works, too, since it’s so slow in getting back to us.
Director: Sure it does.
45th Street and 9th Avenue
New York, New York
Overheard by: melissa
