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Manager: We need to be ducked-rowed here as there will be a lot of scrutiny given we’ve had the opportunity to reoutlook the schedule twice now and yet the schedule continues to slip.

229 8th Street SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia

Manager: [Tim], are you going over the off-site location?
Intern: Yes, I have to pick up the loaner laptop for [Kelly].
Manager: Can you drop this off to shipping and receiving while you are there? Might as well stone 2 birds.

730 International Parkway
Richardson, Texas

Manager: I knew you were going to say that.
Team Lead: Really? How did you know that?
Manager: I have a third sense when it comes to this place.

730 International Parkway
Richardson, Texas

Assistant: Well, do you still have that copy of the Specific Plan?
Project Manager: I don’t know where it is.
Assistant: Wasn’t it on your desk yesterday?
Project Manager: Yeah, but I think it’s spread its legs.
Assistant: What?
Project Manager: You know, spread its legs. You know what I mean.
Assistant: Sprouted legs?

1580 Metro Drive
Costa Mesa, California

Co-worker #1: Oh, you have some good supplies. Anything I can steal?
Co-worker #2: Uh, you can have some markers.
Co-worker #1: No, that’s okay; I’ve got markers up the ass.

633 North St. Clair Street
Chicago, Illinois

Project manager: Thanks, [Craig].
Art director: You mean [Jose]? He’s [Craig].
Project manager: I mean [Jose]. Sorry, I got you mixed up since you’re both wearing yellow shirts.
Art director: My shirt isn’t yellow. Neither is [Craig’s].

6501 Legacy Drive
Plano, Texas

Meeting Lead: The customer wanted another dropdown here for more detail. They have “Category” and “Sub-Category” but they want another one below “Sub-Category”. I suggested “Sub-Sub-Category”.

11 East Superior Street
Duluth, Minnesota

Boss: I was hoping you could take care of it without a bunch of rigor mortis.

1701 Monterey Street
San Luis Obispo, California

Boss: We’re having communication problems.
Underling: We are?
Boss: What?

18115 Campus Way NE
Bothell, Washington

Overheard by: cogalicious

Manager: I hope those envelopes don’t have subpar glue on them.
Boss: I don’t know; I’m a lover not a licker.

7 Middlesex Road
Tyngsboro, Massachusetts