Managing editor: Our system’s down until 2:50.
Reporter: To the bars, then!
Other reporters: Yay!
Editor-in-chief: Why the hell not?
400 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland
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- Coworkers, Maryland, Time Management
50-ish lady peon: Oh, honey, you don’t have to lift those boxes!
20-ish lady peon: No, it’s okay, I really don’t mind. They’re not very heavy.
50-ish lady peon: But that shows on a woman later in life!
20-ish lady peon: Shows? What do you mean?
50-ish lady peon: Well, you know, makes you big… Like the She-Hulk, or that hermaphrodite wrestler! You don’t want people thinking you’re not a woman, do you?
University of North Carolina, 208 Raleigh Street
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Peon, reading: ‘The essence of client trust accounting is contained in these three words: Client, trust, accounting.’ Really? I would have thought more like, ‘Thermometer, Frankenstein, candle.’
Hall of Justice
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Jeffner
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- California, Dumb Employees, General Idiocy
Chipper corporate trainer: You put an extra ‘-umph’ at the end of ‘tri-‘, and what do you get? Triumph!
4635 East Elwood Street
Phoenix, Arizona
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- Arizona, Dumb Employees, Meetings
Attorney: Can we file this psychopathically?
Atlanta, Georgia
Overheard by: Legal Cube-Dweller
- Posted on
- Dumb Employees, General Idiocy, Georgia, Questions
Female worker to another: I was gonna show you something. You wanna go to the ladies’ room?
Seneca Street
Ithaca, New York
Overheard by: MonkeyPantaloons
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- Coworkers, New York, Possible Sexual Harassment, Questions
Lawyer on phone: Well, if you’re a girl, I must be the queen’s bimbo.
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
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Failed hipster boss to peon: You’re really quiet today. Stop being so fucking inclusive.
Middleton, Wisconsin
Overheard by: The Friendliest Emo of All
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- Dumb Bosses, Gripes, Wisconsin
Assistant: Keith*, Melanie’s* on the phone.
Keith: Who is that?
Assistant: Your wife.
1515 Broadway
New York, New York
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Female worker: Something about his office seemed very home-like. I think he had a couch in it.
Male worker: It was a lamp.
Hillcroft Street
Houston, Texas
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