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2PM They'll Help Us Whip This Project into Shape
Smart guy: I sent a copy of that e-mail out to the S&M guys, too.
Conference call audience: Okay, sounds good.
Progress Boulevard
Alachua, Florida
Overheard by: Cramped office-mate
4PM By Then It's Too Late
Lady peon: What do you call those cows that you eat?
114 New Street
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: russ
12PM Next Time, Aim Lower Than a Police Car
Woman on phone: What do you mean, you never thought you would get caught in a stolen car?!
Columbia Business Park
Columbia, South Carolina
12PM I Was Like, "Cut the Cord Already, Chewbacca"
Girl #1: So I was about to put my tongue in...
Girl #2: Ew, was it hairy?
Girl #1: Yeah, but his mom called, so I didn't have to.
College office
Gainesville, Florida
Overheard by: uh...
4PM You're Hired! You Start Work As a Mule on Monday
Chick: Hi, I'm here for the interview...
Employee: Alright... What's your name?
Chick: I'm here for an appointment at 3:30.
Employee: Oh, it's noon right now, so... not for a while!
Chick: Oh, is it? Ohhh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I'm, like, really blazed right now.
Northlake Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida
Overheard by: cool, im hungover.
5PM All that Remains Since We Can No Longer Surf for Porn on the Job
Employee to boss: Hey I know it's the end of the day on Friday, but I'm really bored, do you have anything for me to do?
Boss: Oh! Here have some bubblewrap!
137 4th Ave
Edmonton Alabama
4PM When the Men of the Firm Proved Incapable of Satisfying Her, Stephanie Turned to the Animal Kingdom
Office manager: What is this book on my desk? Who left this here? Kiss of the Wolf?
Sales guy: I have no idea, do you want to speculate here?
Office manager: Didn't this use to be in the girl's bathroom?
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
10AM And I Wouldn't Mind Getting You Between the Worksheets
Assistant: Hey, could you help me with a price on a part?
Sales guy: Yeah, just give me a minute to finish what I'm doing... Hey, I'll help you with your pricing thing if you come over here and help me with my spreadsheet.
Assistant: Deal. [Walks to next cubicle] My, you have a lot of toolbars...
Sales guy: I'm special.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
4PM I Still Prefer It to "Fuck You!"
Off-duty employee: Don't you just hate when you're working and you say, "Have a nice day" and you don't mean it, and the person knows you don't mean it, but you have to say it anyway?
Cashier: Yeah, totally.
Cashier to customer: Thanks! Have a nice day!
Big-Box Store
Harrisonburg, Virginia
4PM At Last, An RDA Is Established for Cookies
Drone #1: I am trying really hard to stay away from these cookies on my desk.
Drone #2: Oh my God, tell me about it. Those cookies are GOOD.
Drone #1: Maybe if I look at how many calories they have, it'll be easier to stay away. One cookie, 120 calories.
Drone #3: Well, how many calories are you supposed to have?
Drone #1: I don't know. I think 2000 calories is supposed to be average.
Drone #3: And the cookies are 120? Then you can eat all you want!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
11AM You Also Gotta Refrain From Calling it 'The Gerbil'
Sales guy #1: You're nasty!
Sales guy #2: I'm not the one that took the pictures on that site.
Sales guy #1: I'm not the one that's talking about shaving my gerbil!
Sales guy #2: Oooh... You gotta shave the gerbil. You GOTTA.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
3PM And, If Not, Practicing Is More Fun Than Anything!
Division manager: I've played with it enough, it outta work by now.
Mechanicsville, Virginia
Overheard by: Alan
10AM It's Really More About Where They Land, Isn't It?
Peon: I wanted to show you this order. I think someone dropped the ball.
Sales associate: Let's see whose order it is...Oh, it's Ryan's*. And he's out this week.
Peon: Uh-oh.
Sales associate: See what happens when you go on vacation? Your balls get dropped!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
9AM In the Future, Black People Will Get to Do Things While Whitey Pays to Watch
Black co-worker: Hey, how are you doing today?
Redneck co-worker: If I were you, I wouldn't speak to me today.
Black co-worker: Why is that? What's wrong with you?
Redneck co-worker: I'm not too fond of you black people today. That damn Tiger Woods has won another Major.
Black co-worker: Oh, that's all? Well, what are you going to do when we take over NASCAR?
Redneck co-worker: [Bewildered silence]
1000 Jerry St. Pe Highway
Gulf Coast, Mississippi
Overheard by: The Guy sitting next to the idiot
5PM He Could Trip on a Tampon at Any Moment!
Techie guy #1: You know how my friends Jason and Mike rode their bikes to Mexico and then to Costa Rica to play poker?
Techie guy #2: Yeah.
Techie guy #1: Well, Mike's living with this girl he met in Mexico.
Techie guy #2: Is that safe?
11000 Regency Parkway
Cary, North Carolina
5PM That's a Wrap
Coworker: I love that movie Dazed and Confused! It's one of those that you don't have to be smart to enjoy.
1200 Sovereign Row
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: Jayce
5PM That's a Wrap
Employee: Don't interrupt me now, interrupt me when I am finished!
1200 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama
1PM Sensitivity Training
Coworker: It's easy to determine who needs to take a sexual harassment class; just ask the person if "harass" is one word or two. If they say two, they need to take the class.
1200 Sovereign Row
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: Not the guy who needs the class
3PM Shift Switch
Coworker #1: Hey, can you cover my shift next week?
Coworker #2: Why? Where are you going?
Coworker #1: My friend's boyfriend is graduating from pharmacology school.
Coworker #2: Ew. Who would want to be a farmer?
3900 Hillsboro Road
Nashville, Tennessee
4PM Internal Memo
Coworker: Not only am I an asshole here, I'm an asshole at home, too!
1200 Sovereign Row
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: shaun
9AM Back to Work
Receptionist: Hey, help me with this list. The boss wants me to go to the store and get some stuff for the coffee room. You know, stuff like filters and cups and stuff. But I can't figure out what these icet rays are.
HR clerk: Let me see the list...Sweetie, this says ice trays. You know, for the freezer to freeze water into cubes.
Receptionist: Are you sure? Because if the boss wants icet rays, that's what I better get.
HR clerk: Well okay, if you really want icet rays, try the office supply store and make them check in the back. You may have to ask for their manager.
Receptionist: Thanks, see you in a little while.
HR clerk: You know, I should have used that opportunity to sell her a bridge.
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
1PM Dessert
Boss: Never put two cranky diabetics in the same room together. All you'll get is '"fuck this," "shit this," and "blood sugar that!"
1200 Sovereign Row
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Overheard by: shaun
1PM Group Therapy
Coworker: Sometimes I just go out to the warehouse dock and stand on the edge and think about jumping.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
9AM Back to Work
Employee: Welcome back. Are you feeling better?
Supervisor: Well, I am fully clothed.
1930 Bishop Lane
Louisville, Kentucky
Overheard by: Eve's Dropper
11AM Ergonomics Seminar
HR clerk: Maureen* broke another chair. Should I order her another chair designed for a person over three hundred pounds, or should I order an even stronger chair?
Manager: No! I am going to tell the maintenance guys to put her desk up on blocks! Then, I am going to tell Maureen that her job description has changed! She is now required to stand up to do her job!
[manager leaves]
HR clerk: Well, it is not going to be me that tells him that one of the toilets in the women's restroom is broken.
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
3PM Benefits Summary
Female: My nipples are boring.
Male: Does our insurance cover that?
5760 Highway 80
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
10AM House Call
Patient: Can I have your home number? I promise not to call you all the time. Only in case of an emergency.
Doctor: Um, I don't give out my home number. If you are having an emergency, you need to go to the emergency room.
Patient: But they don't know my medical history!
Doctor: But I live two hours from you. You'll receive medical care quicker by simply going to the emergency room. Besides, all your medical history can be pulled up on their computer.
Patient: So....you're not going to give me your number?
616 Court Street
Oberlin, Louisiana
Overheard by: Vicky
5PM That's a Wrap
Office manager: Did you see that episode of South Park where they were talking about a camel toe?
Sales assistant: Ooh, lay off the camel toes! I have one. One of my toes is longer than the other and I hate wearing sandals.
[room bursts into snickers]
Sales assistant: What?? Quit making fun of my toes!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
2PM Inventory Check
Dad: [searching through bin of Nalgene bottles] Where is it? I know they have it.
Toddler son: Have what, dad?
Dad: [still searching] The same color bottle I had.
Toddler son: Why do you need a new one, dad?
Dad: Because mommy got drunk and left my old one at her boyfriend's house.
3225 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia
11AM In the Corner Office
VP : So tell me again, why should she get a raise?
Director: She's been with us fifteen years, just completed her Masters and has made a lot of money for us the last 10 years.
VP: Listen, we don't give out raises for people who do a good job. You've gotta have a better reason than that.
1600 East Wendover Avenue
Greensboro, North Carolina
Overheard by: Tom Duehring
3PM Spellcheck
Boss: When you tie something around your mouth so that you can't make sound, what's that called?
Trainee: What?
Boss: Like if somebody is tied up and you put a rag in their mouth, what's that called?
Trainee: A gag?
Boss: How is that spelled?
Trainee: Uhhh...G-A-G.
Boss: How about gagged? Like, somebody is bound and gagged.
Trainee: G-A-G-G-E-D...what the hell?
Boss: It's all part of your training.
550 Eagles Landing Parkway
Stockbridge, Georgia
2PM Small Talk
Coworker: You are very bright today.
QC guy in yellow shirt: Oh, why thank you.
Coworker, walking away: And I don't mean that in the mental sense.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
1PM Affirmative Action
Female employee #1: They're interviewing that guy for the new position.
Female employee #2: No, they can't. We need to hire another woman.
Female employee #1: No way. [whispering] Women are bitches.
1001 North 19th Street
Arlington, Virginia
2PM Back from Site Visit
Sales guy: How'd the trip go?
IT guy: Went pretty well. Almost had to send your branch manager home though.
Sales guy: Ha, why?
IT guy: After we loaded up all the inventory in an Excel spreadsheet, he kept sorting it wrong. He'd sort just one column. It would scramble the whole thing up and we'd have to delete it and start all over. He did that three times before I banned him from Excel.
Sales guy: You banned him?
IT guy: I banned him.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
1PM Conference Call
Call leader: Whoever has your phone on hold, please take us off hold. We can hear the music.
151 Major Reynolds Place
Knoxville, Tennessee
Overheard by: mba
10AM Customer Care
Clerk looking through a tire catalog: Do you know which tire it is?
Customer: Yeah, the back right.
Clerk: No...
Awkward silence
Customer: Oh....no.
30983 Hwy 441 South
Commerce, Georgia
Overheard by: R. Segraves
2PM Shift Scheduling
Nurse #1: We're short today, and so everyone is supposed to get one extra patient.
Nurse #2: I hate patients.
8260 Atlee Road
Mechanicsville, Virginia
1PM One-on-One
The boss: Some people call it stupidity; I like to call it cleverness.
550 Dulany Street
Alexandria, Virginia
Overheard by: Toni
2PM Processing Payroll
Owner's wife on phone: Where are the timesheets?
Girl who was just fired: They are in my hands right now.
Owner's wife: Where are you?
Girl: What do you mean where am I? I'm at your office, you called me here!!
3202 Vie Street
Knoxville, Tennessee
9AM Back to Work
Visiting IT guy: You want some crack? Oh, I can get you some crack. You should have said something, I was at Pawley's Island this weekend and had a boatload.
Assistant: Hmm, and you are on crack now. I see your hands are not shaking from withdrawal. Get out of my cubicle.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
5PM That's a Wrap
Accountant: Who do you have to sleep with around here to get fired?
401 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee
4PM Break Room
Coworker #1: Hey, how's it going?
Coworker #2: Good, how're you doing?
Coworker #1: Not bad -- it's almost Friday.
Coworker #2: It is Friday!
Coworker #1: Really?! It's Friday? That's awesome! I thought it was Thursday!
Coworker #2: It's Friday for me -- I've got tomorrow off.
10750 Wheat First Drive
Glen Allen, Virginia
10AM Translation Services
Engineeron phone to production guy: Let me call you back. I might have someone check the Mandarin label for correctness.
. . .
Engineer on phone to production guy: Yeah, Pei* can come by tomorrow at 8:00am to check the label. Is that OK?
Production guy: No.
Engineer: Oh, is that a problem?
Production guy: Yeah, there are a lot of much better looking Chinese girls in the building.
Engineer: Uh...You are on speaker phone.
Three-second silence.
Production guy: Well uh yeah, that should be fine.
800 Beaty Street
Davidson, North Carolina
11AM Working Reception
Obese hillbilly: Yeah, my girl come to get a pregnancy test.
Older Southern lady: I see.
Obese hillbilly: I told her if she would just let me go fishing more we wouldn't be dealing with this shit.
Thomas County Health Department
Thomasville, Georgia
9AM Back to Work
Boss: I sent you an email.
Assistant: Oh, thanks.
Pause
Boss: You going to read it?
Assistant: No, I don't do emails anymore. I gave that up.
Boss: Hmmm.... I like that. "I don't do emails anymore". I like that. I'm going to go with it.
Assistant: Yeah, it's working for me so far.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
2PM Long-term Planning
Employee #1: I just don't understand the point of Martin Luther King Day.
Emoloyee #2: Come on! It's a big day! It celebrates when Martin Luther King freed the slaves.
Employee #1: That was Abraham Lincoln.
Employee #2: Oh. Well, it celebrates when Martin Luther King gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Employee #1: That was also Abraham Lincoln.
Employee #2: Oh. I'm not very good at history.
821 Benvenue
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
10AM Picking Up Printouts
Office manager: I finally got pants on my monkey. But his tail won't go through the hole.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
10AM Sorting Applications
Office manager: Ohh, this one speaks Spanish.
Sales guy: Where's he from?
Office manager: No, no, he's an English guy that speaks Spanish.
Sales guy: Oh!
Office manager: So he can translate everything that Ramiro* in the warehouse is trying to tell us!
Sales guy: Plus one for the Spanish-speaker!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
2PM Getting Supplies
Coworker: You really can't blame her. It's easy to get attached to a pen.
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, Tennessee
1PM Customer Service Desk
Customer: So I just bought a DVD/VCR player here and I put it in my boyfriend's car but it wasn't really my boyfriend's car because that car that I put the player in is gone now and my boyfriend's car is still here.
Pause
Customer: Is there a form or something that I can fill out?
400 North Alafaya Trail
Orlando, Florida
Overheard by: KTB
5PM That's a Wrap
Coworker #1, whispering: They're firing Lily* on Friday!
Lily, standing behind coworker #1: Why!! What did I do!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
10AM The New-Hire
Supervisor sniffles and rubs eyes.
Brand new employee: Do you have allergies?
Supervisor: No, I am crying because you work here.
1701 16th Avenue
Gainesville, Florida
10AM Making Copies
Manager: So yeah, you've got a bit of an accent there, are you from here?
Kinko's guy: Yeah, I mean, no, not really, I lived in Ireland until I was 3, and my family still has a pretty heavy tongue.
Manager: REALLY? That's fascinating! Can you speak some Irish for me?
Kinko's guy: 'hello'?
3374 W Tharpe Street
Tallahassee, Florida
Overheard by: laughed out loud and totally busted my own eavesdropping
4PM Smoke Break
Soldier #3 has a glass eye. It is out of his head and lying on the desk.
Soldier #1: Hey [John], let's go have a smoke.
Soldier #2: Alright. [Places cigarette in mouth and walks toward door.]
Soldier #3: Hey dumbass, you're inside! Get that fuckin' cigarette out of your mouth!
Soldier #2: Hey Blackbeard, get a fuckin' eye in your head!
Building 2411-B
Fort Eustis, Virginia
Overheard by: SGT Grier
11AM Error Message
Boss: I am sending emails like a wildman, I just can't get them.
Assistant: Maybe your email box is full. Wait, no, you delete everything
Boss: Well, it could be full. I have 1,100 emails.
Assistant: Gah!
Boss: I'm not getting anything but this error message
Assistant: Wait, you're getting an error message? That could be helpful; what does it say?
Boss: It just says "error"
Assistant: This is going to be a long day, huh?
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
3PM Logging In
Sales guy: Sooo, how do I get on our intranet again?
His assistant: We put this on your Favorites list, remember? We've done this before.
Sales guy: No.. no.. I'm not seeing it.
Assistant: Yes, the very first time I showed you how to log in, I had you add it to your Favorites first.
Sales guy: I don't know, but I know I'm not seeing it.
Assistant: Hmm, I can't remember if it was under a subfolder or not.
Sales guy: What are you talking about?
Pause
Assistant: Okay, let's start from the beginning... Open up your Internet Explorer....
Sales guy: Okay... done...
Assistant: Now click on Favorites....
Sales guy: Oooh. Is it called [Company Inc]-home?
Assistant: Mmm hmm. That would be it.
Cubicle neighbor: Is this the same voice you use to explain things to your daughter?
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
1PM Soliciting Feedback
Sales girl: Sooo [Alice], I hear you are having butt trauma today.
[Alice] the assistant: Yeah, I don't know what is wrong, but it just hurts. Down in my butt crack. It just hurts.
Sales guy: Huh? What's going on?
[Alice]: Shut up, you've seen it already!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
9AM Back at Work
Manager: Are you doing okay? I've noticed you've seemed overwhelmed lately.
Smacking noises and paper shuffling
Assistant: Hmm? Oh, I'm okay. I just can't find my purple posties.
Manager: Well, i just don't want you to get frustrated and quit. We value you.
More smacking and agitated paper shuffling.
Assisant: Well, if i wasn't busy, you wouldn't need me. Where are those purple posties?
Manager: Don't worry about the purple post-its right now. I'm asking how you are doing.
Lots of shuffling noises and frantic paper shuffling.
Assistant: I'm fine!
Manager: Are you sure, you really seem stressed.
Still shuffling
Assistant: I'd be doing a lot better if i could find my damn purple posties!
Manager: I'll come back
Minutes later after lots of loud thuds and much desk smacking and paper shuffling. . .
Assistant: Heey! Here they are! Okay, I'm good now!
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
3PM Smoke Break
Jr. Developer: What we need is an alien invasion.
Deveveloper #11: We have one. Mexicans.
Jr. Developer: [sigh] What we need is an extraterrestrial alien invasion.
Developer #2: Boy, you sure have it out for the aliens.
Developer #1: I can't help it. I'm a xenophobe.
Jr. Developer: The whole world is xenophobic. We need the extraterrestrial invasion in order to unite the globe and to make us stop fighting amongst ourselves.
Developer #1: Until after they left.
Jr. Developer: No, because they came from space, there could always be more of them. As paranoid humans, we have to hunt them down and exterminate them all in order to protect ourselves.
Pause
Jr. Developer: Besides, they might have oil.
501 Corporate Centre Drive
Franklin, Tennessee
Overheard by: Brian
11AM Installation
Soldier #1 is walking around slapping people on the ass with a length of stainless steel hydraulic line.
*swat!*
Soldier #1: You like that, dontcha bitch? You want some more?
Soldier #2: Oh yeah, give it to me papi!
*loud swat*
Soldier #2: OW!! [brief pause] Yeah, that was good...
Soldier #1: You want another one?
Soldier #2: Not yet, papi, I gotta go get the Crisco and rub it on my ass first.
Soldier #1: You have 5 minutes.
Bldg 2411-B
Fortt Eustis, Virginia
Overheard by: Jason Grier
12PM Lunch
Accountant: This chicken [Sue] brought in is yummy. I'm just going to take a break to eat it here rather than take it back to my desk. I don't trust myself not to get my paperwork all greasy.
Supervisor: That's why I'm going to make a sandwich out of it.
Secretary: Oh, I don't care about greasy fingers. All I do is handle incoming checks all day.
401 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee
4PM Coffee Break
Sales guy #1: You know, this hand sanitizer stuff. Can you like.. wash with it?
Uncertain silence.
Sales guy #1: Like, wash your whole body?
Sales guy #2: Well, you're going to need a bigger bottle.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
1PM Custom Solutions
Manager: Do you need these pants hemmed?
Customer: Yes
Manager: Do you have one leg that is shorter than the other, sir?
Customer: Yeah, the middle one.
3255 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia
10AM Running Late
Co-worker #1: What was that white box you were carrying?
Co-worker #2: Donuts. Why, you want one?
Co-worker #1: Yes!
Co-worker #3: Where were you?
Co-worker #1: What? Do you want donuts, too?
Co-worker #3: No, I want you to explain yourself for being late.
Co-worker #4: Yeah, you didn't say anything when you called me at 7 this morning.
Co-worker #5: Yeah, she didn't say anything to me last night at 11, either.
All stare at co-worker #5.
Co-worker #2: Just take the donuts and go away.
Co-worker #5: That's what you said last night at 11, too!
401 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee
9AM Back to Work
Soldiers are doing push-ups on frost-covered grass.
Soldier #1: Man, it's cold! I can't feel my hands!
Soldier #2: I can't feel my testicles.
Soldier #3: My testicles are all crawled up inside my body...so snug...and so warm...
Soldier #4: I wish I was a testicle.
Soccer field #3
Fort Eustis, Virginia
9AM Back to Work
Boss: How come you're late?
Employee: I had a hard time deciding which eyeshadow looked best with blood shot eyes.
5760 Highway 80 East
Pearl, Mississippi
Overheard by: Brain Dancing
12PM Hire New Secretary
Attorney: I have a small problem.
Secretary: Well, you have to work with what God gave you.
8555 United Plaza Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
