Female suit, in Finance & Technology floor of global investment bank: What's an integer?
London
England
Overheard by: lexington
Co-worker #1: So your wife works as a nurse in the ER at that new fancy hospital?
Co-worker #2: Yep. Has been for 6 months.
Co-worker #1: Do they treat people who come in without insurance there?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, treat them like shit.
1620 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Coworker #1: Have you seen my pen?
Coworker #2: Nuh-uh.
Coworker #1: Someone has liberated my pen again.
England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Coworker, reading an e-mail: Oh no… We can’t hire someone that says “TGIF”.
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: I agree
Clerk: I got an error message on that email I sent.
Manager: Well, then you aren’t holding your mouth right, are ya?
Clerk: What?
1400 Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Editor, on phone with reader: Sir, the phrase “Stick a sock in it” is pretty common. It’s a common phrase.
[Pause.]Editor: It’s no one’s sock, sir. It’s not a threat.
[Pause.]Editor: Well, I disagree. I think it is a pretty common phrase and I think everyone understood what I meant.
[Pause.]Editor: No, sir, it’s not my sock. It’s nobody’s sock.
Walnut Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Laywer: So you were locked in a room that had a gas leak?
Client: Yeah. Man, we was trying to get out quick as we could. I mean, if we didn’t make it out when we did, we could’ve been sophisticated!
Lawyer: Asphyxiated?
Client: Whatever.
Public Square
Cleveland, Ohio
Boss: …and I need a costume. I need to go dressed like a king and then I am going to a concert afterwards. I can go as any old king, Old King Cole, Nat King Cole…that would be great! I just have to have enough time to get the make-up on my face.
444 Park Ave South
New York, NY
Hungarian coworker with heavy accent on phone with auto repair shop: I drive a 2007 black Foreigner. (pause) Yes, Foreigner, Foreigner -like the Toyota.
Broomfield, Colorado
Account executive: We are going to need to traffic that ad out by Friday.
Traffic manager: What does ‘traffic’ mean?
Birmingham, Alabama
