Threats All Categories > Topics > Threats

Recent | Best Of

 

4PM But Will It Affect My Tan?

Customer squinting at 'No cell phones' sign: Why do we have to turn off our cell phones? What happens if you use them in the tanning bed?
Tanning consultant: You'll die.

222 Plaza, 5th Street Highway
Pennsylvania


Posted 2008-01-21 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM PETA May Have Gone Too Far This Time

Bimbette coworker: They're gonna skin your mother-in-law and give it to a zebra!

860 Broadway
New York, New York


Overheard by: Confabulation Nation


Posted 2008-01-14 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM Meet Baltimore's Best Receptionist

Receptionist: I just want to punch you in your eye 'cause you're getting too upset!

8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland


Overheard by: Nikki


Posted 2007-11-27 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM You Make an Excellent Point

Old, constantly inappropriate boss: I'm gonna bust your ass, girl.
Young girl employee: You'll do no such thing.
Old, constantly inappropriate boss: Oh, yeah? Why's that?
Young girl employee: Because I'd karate chop you in the jugular.

14th Street and 3rd Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida


Overheard by: Still can't believe I work here


Posted 2007-11-20 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM Adequate Compension for My Stealing Your Wife

Editor, singing: I'm going to steal your chair when you're dead!

6th and Lavaca Streets
Austin, Texas


Overheard by: not getting up


Posted 2007-11-19 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM And We'll Have the Scars to Prove It

Sales person: Hmmm... Are you doing the billing today since Sherry* is out?
Trainee: I'm going to try.
Sales person: Well, don't mess up my billing or I'll kick your ass.
Trainee: Promise?
Sales person: Oh, yes.
Trainee: My pain is your pleasure.
Sales person: You and I will get along fine.

8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina


Posted 2007-10-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM The Joke's On You -- Those Are Decoy Pop-Tarts

Worker leaving office to coworker on phone: Hurry up or I'm going to poke your Pop-Tarts.

5th and Jackson
Topeka, Kansas


Overheard by: D


Posted 2007-10-24 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM I've Been Doing Enough Yoga That It's Physically Possible

Office girl in stall: Fuck this! Fuck you, uterus! I'll kick your ass!

16th Street
Tempe, Arizona


Posted 2007-10-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM When Excel Just Isn't Enough

Accountant: Be right back. I have to go buy an ax.

East Lancaster Avenue
Downingtown, Pennsylvania


Overheard by: marianoelle


Posted 2007-09-20 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Always Best to Counter Intolerance with Immaturity

Manager: Your boyfriend looks like a terrorist.
Peon, farting: My butthole is the terrorist in this office.

12th Street NW
Washington, DC


Posted 2007-09-07 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

3PM But If a Cops Film Crew Shows Up, the Shirt Is History

Seminar coordinator: Between keeping my shoes on and keeping my britches on, there'll be no running from me!

14 Fairfield Drive
Brookfield, Connecticut


Overheard by: Marissa


Posted 2007-08-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM Watch Out! She's Packing an Oozy

Secretary: Stop it... Stop it! I will menstruate all over you!

Citic Tower
Hong Kong
China


Posted 2007-08-02 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM I Study Marital and Martial Arts

Receptionist: If he does that shit again I'm going to tie his ass hairs together and kick him in the shin.

Addison, Texas

Overheard by: buenisima


Posted 2007-07-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM What God Said, after Creating the Earth

Priest: ... And, as always, during the collection-- Is there anyone to do the collection? Lock the doors -- nobody gets out.

2026 Guadalupe Street
Austin, Texas


Posted 2007-07-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Um, Hmmm -- Mood Elevators? Second Floor

Sales lady: Hello.
Crazy lady: Don't you talk to me! You don't know me! We don't know each other! You have no right to talk to me!

Rochester, Minnesota

Overheard by: Katie


Posted 2007-06-28 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM It'll Just Make Things Worse

Grandmother to toddler trying to climb out of shopping cart: If you fall on your head and break your leg, don't come running to me.

Santee, California

Overheard by: Snickering Cashier


Posted 2007-06-12 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Honesty and Parenting Are Mutually Exclusive

Mom to little kid: I told you not to go in the road.
Dad: Yeah, you get hit by a car, you gon' be in there with mama on a bed. [Kid stares.] You get hit by a car, you gon' have to get X-rays. You want X-rays? X-rays hurt.

Doctor's office, 35th Street and Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah


Overheard by: JChan


Posted 2007-06-06 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

3PM Six Sigma Is All about Eliminating Defects

Quality manager: If I told you what I know...
Salesman: You'd have to kill Charles*?
Quality manager: No... That's not a bad idea, though.

8900 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, Maryland


Overheard by: Anonymous Temp


Posted 2007-05-16 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM Henrietta Learns That a "Body Shaper" Is Just a Girdle in Disguise

Large woman: You just watch out. I'm going to come over there and squeeze you the way they squeeze me.

30th Street and Park Avenue
New York, New York


Overheard by: Adam Nathan


Posted 2007-04-24 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM And Someone Stole My Paddle to Prop Up a Table

Manager roaming the halls: I want to hurt somebody.

Poughkeepsie, New York

Overheard by: Dave


Posted 2007-04-23 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM That's Where You Come In -- Nickel Washer

Estimator: We're going to sit on their heads until they shit nickels.

8531 Marginal Way
Seattle, Washington


Posted 2007-04-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM Similarly, If He Comes in the Form of a Flood

Woman: I was talking to God the other day, and he told me he's coming soon, you know?
Man: Well, if he doesn't show up in half an hour I'm leaving.

Mexico City International Airport

Overheard by: Trece


Posted 2007-04-04 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM No Peace, but a Sword for You, My Friend

Coworker on phone: Jesus told me if you come over to fuck you up.

100 Main Street
Cincinnati, Ohio


Overheard by: Jesus Freak


Posted 2007-03-30 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM Keith Gets 30 Days in the Hole

Manager to three people working in cubicle: What are you all doing in here?!
Male coworker: There's a dead mouse in my cube.
Lady coworker: This is Keith*. He's a temp, but there's nowhere for him to sit, so they're all in my cube.
Manager: What are you doing about the mouse?!
Male coworker: Some guy came up and removed the filing cabinets and found the mouse. But he had to call a guy in another union to come and pick up the mouse.
Manager: What the fuck? This is unbelievable.
Lady coworker: It's like an overcrowded prison in here.
Manager: Oh, I'll show you prison [leaves].
Keith: Is she mad?
Male coworker: Isn't this fun?

777 3rd Avenue
New York, New York


Posted 2007-03-27 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM Twice Shy

Veteran employee: Looks like all the seats are taken for the meeting.
Newbie: Well, there are some by me -- looks like I am somewhat of a pariah!
Veteran employee: What? Oh you mean piranha -- the word is 'piranha.' It's a fish from, like, Australia. Oh, wait, does that mean you're gonna bite me?

75 Washington Avenue
New York, New York


Overheard by: Brian Brinegar


Posted 2007-03-23 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM He Can Be Ready in 60 Seconds

Teacher: Can you tell me what states I might find on the West coast of the United States?
Student: The big one on the bottom. Mexico is part of the United States.
Teacher: No, that is wrong. Mexico is a country, try again.
Student: Look, my parents live here and they said we're American and they came from Mexico. It's part of the United States.
Teacher: I am telling you, you are wrong. Mexico is a country -- it has its own government.
Student: Look, if it was its own country then why is everyone just walking over here? That's what I did and I'm still here.
Another student pulls out cell: Not for long.

School, Desert Marigold Lane
Las Vegas, Nevada


Posted 2007-03-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM Just a Good One with a Bad Temper

Restaurant manager shooing out two vagrants: Guys, you'll have to leave. Go on.
Vagrant #1: How long you been in the klan?
Restaurant manager, taken aback: Actually, I'm Catholic and the klan is very anti-Catholic.
Vagrant #2: No. No! They were Catholics!
Restaurant manager: You're wrong. Class dismissed. Now get your ass out of here or I'll have the dish washers put you two motherfuckers in the trash compactor, ass-to-mouth.
Vagrant #1: You a bad Catholic!

Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana


Overheard by: Shatmandu


Posted 2007-03-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Why Grad Students Smoke So Much Pot

Student: I can't get this essay to say what I want it to say, and you aren't helping me!
Tutor: Well, what do you want to say, exactly?
Student: That you're an idiot who isn't helping me!
Tutor: So write that.
Student: ... Are you serious?
Tutor: Sure. Write your whole essay around it if you think you can support your argument.
Student: ... But you're the TA, so you'll be grading it later, right?
Tutor: Let me put it this way -- if you can write this argumentative essay well enough that I start to take your side, then I will give you an A for the semester.
Student: Can I get that in writing?
Tutor: Sure [writes it and signs it].
Student: Sweet. I'm head of the debate team, you know.

101 Braddock Road
Frostburg, Maryland


Overheard by: can't wait to see how this one turns out...


Posted 2007-03-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM Gimpy Joe's the Only One Who's Got Privileges

System manager: Anyone who touches my calculator limps all day!

6105 Oakleaf Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland


Overheard by: Ren


Posted 2007-02-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM How Leo's Pants Got Pulled over His Eyes Remains Something of a Mystery

Union worker: Listen... Listen to me. You can't fool me. I am my father's son. You can't pull the shirt over my eyes. You do what you gotta do.

309 West 49th Street
New York, New York


Overheard by: fredshah


Posted 2007-02-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM Sheriff, Any Idea Why This Boy Would Brutally Murder His Mother?

Baby mama to friend: These little boy clothes is so cute! If I have a boy I am going to name him D'jon, 'cause I love mustard!

Baby Gap
Towson, Maryland


Posted 2007-02-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM If It Feels Good, Don't Say It

Coworker on the phone: No, sir, I am doing everything I can... Sir, you aren't listening... Sir, as I have already said... Sir... I'm gonna kick you in yo' head!

40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, New York


Overheard by: New to the company


Posted 2007-02-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM ... Instead of Just the FBI and Major League Baseball

Professor: Someone hacked into the university's website, and now the Russian mafia has all of your information.

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona


Overheard by: Colleen


Posted 2007-02-07 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM My Career Is in Your Tiny Hands

Navy commander to his three-year old who's locked herself in the connecting bathroom again: Susie*, open this door at once! I command you!

Visiting officer's quarters, Tachikawa Air Force base
Tokyo
Japan


Posted 2007-01-31 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

3PM I Might Just Do It for Fun

30-ish mom slamming purse down in front of young teen boy: Excuse me!
Teen: Yeah?
Mom: You will stop harrassing my son [points outside to younger boy] immediately. Do you understand?!
Teen: What?
Mom: Don't follow him, call him 'gay,' call him anything -- just don't talk to him.
Teen: What?
Mom: Look, I'm not like the other mothers around here. I'm not polite. I'm crazy. Super psycho crazy and I don't give up.
Teen, intimidated: Okay.
Mom, leaning in: I have a dent in the front of my car, and I'm not afraid to put another one next to it -- get my drift?

Starbucks
Westwood, New Jersey


Posted 2007-01-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM You'll Find That I'm Strict, but Fair

Office worker: Hey, do you have a yard stick?
Supervisor: No, but I have a riding crop.

Human Services Building, Frances Avenue
Lancaster, Pennsylvania


Posted 2007-01-03 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM A Super Wal-Mart?

Associate: Do you think you could survive if we dropped you in the middle of the rainforest?
Temp: No way -- I would die for sure.
Associate: What about if we dropped you in a Wal-Mart?

383 Madison Avenue
New York, New York


Posted 2007-01-02 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

3PM No Responsibility Is So Slight That It Can't Be Abused

Manager: Just because I'm a manager they are treating me like I can't be a customer! I wanted to put something on hold and they said, 'No, that's for customers.' I have a key to this bitch! I'll be all up in here ringing that shit up myself.

Valley Stream, New York

Overheard by: J-Face


Posted 2006-12-29 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM The Only Case in New York

Somber attorney on phone: I've got some very bad news... I just got off the phone with the vet, and little Bobo's sick... He's got a case of bad attitude. That's right, a bad attitude.

Empire State Building
New York, New York


Overheard by: Guy Smiley


Posted 2006-12-27 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM At the Sal Monella Country Inn

Waitress: And so the guy from the health department says we have, like, one day to get this shit cleaned up or he is shutting us down. Oh my god, he's right! Look at all this crap in the bottom of the ice... [As two customers walk in] Oh, hello. Two for dinner?

Diner
Maine


Overheard by: brian brinegar


Posted 2006-12-19 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM Britney: Do Whatever He Says!

Male boss: I will go K-Fed on your ass.
Male employee: What?
Male boss: Don't make me make you pregnant.

Orlando, Florida


Posted 2006-12-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Pretty Picky for Somebody without Hedge Clippers

Coworker #1: So I was talking to my friend on the phone, and there was a snake in his room! I would have snapped it in half! I would've come after it with a pair of hedge clippers.
Coworker #2: It wouldn't so much snap as it would snip.

405 Main Street
Milford, Michigan


Overheard by: John M.


Posted 2006-12-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM And Forget about the Sanitarium

Mother to son behind the curtain: If you don't behave, I'm not going to take you to the hospital ever again.

Franklin Square Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland


Overheard by: Brain Surgeon


Posted 2006-12-14 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM Wait, If I Just Lock Him in an Empty Room with Some Dog Food in a Bag, I Could Get That New 'Vette!

Mom, pointing to friend's child: Say 'Hello' to Aidan*.
Shy child hiding face in mom's leg: 'Lo.
Mom: If you can't look at him and 'Hello' properly then you can't have swimming lessons. There, I just saved a hundred and fifty dollars!

145 Harlow Street
Bangor, Maine


Overheard by: Kelly


Posted 2006-12-08 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM Causing Very Mixed Feelings, Indeed

Woman to friend: I'm so going to hit you in the vagina for that!

950 Mission Street
San Francisco, California


Posted 2006-11-20 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Your Verbal Warning Will Be Confirmed in Pudding

Boss to tardy employee: I'm going to write you up with a verbal warning.
Employee: ... Wait. What?
Boss: Don't be smart.

Burnet Road
Austin, Texas


Posted 2006-11-16 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM Also, I Hung up That One Corpse

Secretary : The guys who clean my yard never take any off my plants, because I threaten them, I say 'If you touch anything, I'll kill you!' And they never touch anything since then. Because they're Haitians, and you know, Haitians scare easy.

1252 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, Florida


Posted 2006-10-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM Needless to Say, the White one is Whole Foods

Classmate #1: I'm gonna shave your head and sell your hair on the black market!
Classmate #2: Why would black people want his hair?
Classmate #3, after laughter subsides: Where is the black market, anyway?

Mt. Vernon High School
Mt. Vernon, Texas


Posted 2006-10-19 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM It's OK, It's Just Their Little Code for 'So I Can Brand You With Hot Tongs'

Manager to waiter: What are you doing up here? Go in the fucking kitchen so I can fucking beat your ass.

Italian Restaurant
Olney, Maryland


Posted 2006-10-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Any Excuse to Tell That Story

Nurse: She's been so much better today. Chatty. She still walks around like this [puts chin to chest], but she came up to me and was like, "How are you today?" I said, "Huh? Oh, I'm fine!" Maybe it's the Celexa.
Psychiatrist: Actually we're weaning her off the Celexa. We started her on Effexor.
Nurse: Oh, well, maybe that's it.
Psychiatrist: She's only been on it one day. That wouldn't really be long enough.
Nurse: No, that's not... Celexa... I think I was taking that when I got into a fight at the airport. You know those guys with the M-16s? Well, I told this one bitch I was gonna jump over the counter and take her out.
Girl: That was Celexa?
Nurse, smiling: Yeah.

Oregon State Hospital
Salem, Oregon


Posted 2006-10-04 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM Can't Wait 'Til He Puts on the Darth Vader Mask and Tells the Baby He's Her Father

Woman #1: Hey! Look at you! I didn't know you were back from maternity leave.
Woman #2: Yeah, I just came back yesterday.
Woman #1: I saw the pictures you emailed. She's adorable. I remember you were worried about labor. How'd it go?
Woman #2: Not too bad, actually. Kind of what I expected. Although I punched my husband and threatened divorce during the worst of it.
Woman #1: Are you serious? What did he do?
Woman #2: Right when my contractions were about two minutes apart, he got nervous and attempted to distract me. So he kept making that ooohbah, ooohbah noise that those robot things made in Revenge of the Sith.
Woman #1: Omigod! I know what you're talking about. What a jerk! That's so funny, though.
Woman #2: Yeah, I know. We laugh about it now. But at the time I punched him in the stomach and called him a bastard. I told him if he opened his mouth again even to cough, we were getting a divorce. Poor guy wouldn't even talk to the nurses after that.

777 Eisenhower Parkway
Ann Arbor, Michigan


Posted 2006-09-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM Lame Duck Car Buyers

Old woman: How dare you pick me up in a truck? I drive a Cadillac and you pick me up in a truck?! This is the last Cadillac I ever buy from you!
Manager: That's not much of a threat, now, is it? Seriously, look at you. I mean, there's not a lot of Cadillacs left in you, is there?

Car dealership
Ohio


Posted 2006-09-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM I Will Need Additional Information to Arrive at a Decision

Exec: I'll be right back, so don't lock me out.
Cleaning lady: If I knew who the hell you were, maybe I'd consider it.
Exec: I'm the reason you have a job.

725 East 40th Street
Holland, Michigan


Overheard by: INTERN


Posted 2006-08-25 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM What Jesus Would Have Done

Man: Was this in DC?
Woman: No! It was in Maryland, where I live! Right behind my condo building! I was so upset!
Man: Huh.
Woman: If I had a gun, I tell you what: I would have shot him as he was running away. I was so upset. The little bitch would have been dead. [She exits the elevator] Have a blessed day!

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland


Posted 2006-08-21 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

3PM Nothing in the KGB's Training Had Prepared Colonel Volkov For the Mystery of American Names

IT person: Usually the email address is just the first initial, then the employee's last name.
Salesguy: Oh, okay...What's John Smith's last name again?

Columbia, South Carolina


Posted 2006-08-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

3PM Down Syndrome, My Ass. Get Out There and Work That Backhand!

Tennis instructor to day-campers: You were special last year. You are not special anymore. If you still suck this year, leave these courts.

Birchwood Swim & Tennis Club
Chappaqua, New York


Overheard by: rachel kieffer


Posted 2006-08-08 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Use the Shank Key

VP, using Instant Messenger: How do I type a smiley face that means, "I'll cut you."

550 Madison Avenue
New York, New York


Posted 2006-08-04 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM Michael Milken's Up to His Old Tricks

Exec steals Nutri-Grain Bar from CEO.

CEO: Give that back!
Exec: No.
CEO, cornering exec and pushing him against the wall: Give that to me; that's my Nutri-Grain!
Exec: You aren't getting it back.
CEO: That's stealing, man!
Exec: Buy some more! You've got the money!
CEO, releasing exec: You're a real class act, man.

Exec unwraps and eats Nutri-Grain Bar.

5200 Dixie Road
Toronto, Ontario


Posted 2006-08-03 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Sexual Harassment

Secretary: So, the next time you shut the door to take one of your sex calls, I'm going to nail it closed!


311 Main Road
Point Mugu, California


Overheard by: mookie


Posted 2006-06-16 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM That's a Wrap

CSR guy: I swear to God, if [Becca] wasn't pregnant I would have tackled her.

515 N State Street
Chicago, Illinois


Overheard by
: Cube Monkey


Posted 2006-05-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM Coffee Break

Co-worker: I do find that when I wear my glasses I'm menaced by street hoodlums more.

176 Grand Street
New York, New York


Overheard by
: Eli Mavros


Posted 2006-05-02 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM Back to Work

Foreign boss: [Cynthia], what are you eating?
Veronica: A breakfast burrito.
Foreign boss: Oh, no, [Cynthia]. You will never find a boyfriend.

350 South Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, California


Overheard by
: ben rosman


Posted 2006-04-28 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Client Meeting

Boss: You know that project we just finished?
Lackey: Yes.
Boss: We need a project plan that details what we did, how we did it, and how long it took.
Lackey: Um, I don't know that.
Boss: Me neither, but the client will be here in an hour and they want to see a plan.

10000 Linn Station Road
Louisville, Kentucky


Posted 2006-04-12 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Budgeting Meeting

Engineer: Let me guess, are you going to put on your "MBA Hat"?
Supervisor: How about I put my "Foot Hat" in your "Butt Hat"?

500 North Gulph Road
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania


Posted 2006-04-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Call Collections Dept.

Account Manager: I'm getting more serious getting these people to pay. I've been letting them know if they don't call me back, I'll have to take affirmative action!
General Manager: Do you know what that means?
Account Manager: Yeah! It means I'm serious!
General Manager: No, "affirmative action" is when you give someone a job just because they're a certain minority group or sex.
Account Manager: Oh. I bet they don't know what it means either!

1570 North McMullen Booth Road
Clearwater, Florida


Posted 2006-02-14 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM Lunch

Enginee: I'm gonna beat you up!
Senior Engineer: What are you going to do, beat my chin up with your nuts?

117 South Street
Hopkinton, Massachusetts


Overheard by
: Fat French Kid


Posted 2006-02-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

11AM Strategy Meeting

Project Manager: He needs to step into my office. The office of my fist. If he messes with my developer one more time, I'm gonna drop him like a bad habit. And by "drop" I mean "drop kick". And by "bad habit" I mean "communist hobo".

1375 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, Georgia


Posted 2006-01-19 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM Call [Chris]

Receptionist on speaker: I'm sorry. [Chris] is still on the phone. Would you like his voicemail?
Customer: No. I am afraid he won't call back, and this is an emergency.
Receptionist: I can put you on hold again. But he has had a lot of calls today, and I don't know how long it will be before you can speak to him.
Customer: I would like to kick his butt.
Receptionist: I'm sorry. You will have to stand in line to do that.

5711 East FM-40
Lubbock, Texas


Posted 2006-01-06 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM How Fast Can a Day be Ruined?

Co-worker #1: Where is my breakfast burrito?
Co-worker #2: Sorry bud, I totally forgot to order you one.
Co-worker #1: Next time I shoot my .357 magnum at the range...I'm going to draw your face on the target.

9785 Towne Centre Drive
San Diego, California


Posted 2005-12-21 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM TGIF

Supervisor: Let me tell you. boy, we're going to play Marine Corps baseball here. You play ball with me or I'll shove the bat up your ass!

550 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, California


Overheard by
: Oldcorps 50


Posted 2005-12-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM Calling It a Day!

Underling: You've got mail!
Financial Analyst: I don't know that person. All right, I'll take it.
Underling: There was some white powder in there, but I smelled it; it seemed fine.
Financial Analyst: Well, that's good. Terrorists don't use anthrax anymore.
Underling: Just family and friends now, huh? Excellent.

27 Terrace Drive
Vernon, Connecticut


Posted 2005-12-02 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM Good Morning, Office!

Lawyer #1: What does that mean again?
Lawyer #2: Listen, if you can't figure out this report, you're fired.

452 5th Avenue
New York, NY


Overheard by
: Bob


Posted 2005-11-30 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM Get More Hole Punches for Office

Sales engineer: Hey, you can't use that, that's a sales punch!
Accountant: Care to see a finance punch?

59 Marsh Lane
Solihull, West Midlands
UK


Posted 2005-10-31 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Contact Miami Offices

Senior Manager: [Justine] just asked me if you heard from the Miami system about the problem we had on Friday afternoon.
Manager: No. They were preparing for Wilma to hit them...oh, about now.

1400 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Posted 2005-10-25 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

2PM Conference Call

Colleague on phone: We'll just have to go down there and gang bang those sites.

Silence.

3699 West Lathrop Street
South Bend, Indiana


Posted 2005-10-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

10AM Review Napoleonic Code

Attorney #1: The governor suggested that everyone not evacuating write their social security number on their arm in indelible ink. I'm going to go through our database and tattoo the SSN of our richest client on my chest with my children as beneficiaries.
Attorney #2: You better get that tattoo on your ass because you're going to be floating face down in the floodwater.

8555 United Plaza Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana


Posted 2005-10-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

9AM Hadn't Even Taken Off My Jacket

Boss: I was asked to suggest some strong people for this open
position in another department, and I think you'd be great for the job, but if you leave me, I'll kill you.

8200 Interstate Highway 10 W
San Antonio, Texas


Posted 2005-09-20 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

5PM Don't Ask Him Why His Cell is Off

User: If you don't turn my cell phone back on today, I'll tell the families of my patients and their lawyers that you are responsible for the patient's death, because I couldn't be reached!
Call center operator: Sir, if you are expecting your patients to die, perhaps they should switch to a different physician...

310 W. Bakerview Road
Bellingham, Washington


Overheard by
: Josh Sinnett


Posted 2005-08-11 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

1PM He's #1, Obviously

Supervisor #1: I am here to give you a hard time.
Supervisor #2: Take a number.

2 Prudential Plaza
Chicago, Illinois


Posted 2005-07-22 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12AM Nothing's As Snarky As a Gunshot Wound

VP: She was mean! She said, "I guess I'll just have to come up to New York and kill you then."
Assistant: Was she being sarcastic?
VP: I think so.

30 E. 33rd Street
New York, NY


Posted 2005-07-22 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

6AM When Human Resources Fails

City worker #1: So what'd you do?
City worker #2: I told him I'd bust that muthafucka up straight up.
City worker #1: No doubt.

393 Lewis Avenue
Brooklyn, New York


Overheard by
: Mohammed


Posted 2005-05-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

4PM Sounds More Like a Job for the Barbers

Boss: If he does that I'm going to go down there and beat the fucking crap out of him. They will have to call the cops just to refrain me.

120 Broadway
New York, NY


Overheard by
: Training Sherpa


Posted 2005-04-22 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12AM Take This Job and McShove It

Manager: You have to keep your collar buttoned unless your undershirt is white. I can see that yours is black.
Cashier: That's not how we did it before.
Manager: That wasn't this McDonald's.

1983 86th Street
Brooklyn, New York


Posted 2005-03-01 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM Someone Had to Tell the CEO

Woman across the hall: You're going to jail. You're going to jail. You're going to jail. You're going to jail. You're going to jail.

3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Posted 2005-02-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

12PM If You Mention a Gadget, It's Not Vulgarity

Fattie: I swear to Christ, I'm gonna shove that Blackberry up your ass if you bring it to another sales meeting.

1100 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota


Overheard by
: Steven Grafing


Posted 2005-01-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook