#OverheardAtWork

Hi, I gotta get something off my chest. The other day I went to an interview with a major multinational that has been operation for quite some time in our country. But when we talked about salary I a...

Hope this exploitation of those on H1B visas and working at KPMG ends soon!

I work at a mid-sized law firm, and I walked past one of the partner's offices. He was on speakerphone shouting, "I don’t care if the raccoon was a registered emotional support animal, it still counts...

“I’ve been married for over 31 years and have been trained to notice and compliment my wife’s hair cut/color, purses, new clothes and shoes”

Overheard in the design studio. The lead architect looked at a junior designer's 3D model and said, "It’s a beautiful concept, if the client is a villain from a 1980s cartoon." To be fair, it did look...

I’m a high school teacher, and during lunch in the staff lounge, the history teacher walked in looking utterly defeated. She told the principal, "A student tried to convince me his dog ate his homewor...

"It seems like every other week, I get excited about something, only to be told that I didn't seem to care when someone else was excited about something earlier, as if I was keeping score in the first...

"Sometimes, I look at people and just think that their life is one long hangover even though they don't drink."

I was sitting in HR finishing up some paperwork when the director’s door opened. She was talking to a manager. She looked him dead in the eye and said, "Michael, micro-managing their bathroom breaks i...

I was in the server room today helping our network admin clear out some old cables. He was on the phone with a remote user. He finally said, "Sir, turning it off and on again won't fix the fact that y...

"Okay, I'm gonna hang up the phone now. You keep yelling until you feel better." My poor co-worker!

Hosted an open house yesterday. A couple was looking at the master bedroom, and the husband muttered, "It's nice, but is it 'hide from your family for three hours' nice?" 🤭

I work at a large big-box sporting goods store. A customer brought in a cornhole set to return and claimed it was defective. When I asked how it was defective he explained that when you throw the bean...

"I'm not saying she's a witch, but my printer literally only jams when she walks by."

“It’s as if I’ve lived through this before and didn’t really enjoy it.”

"We aren't lying, we are just presenting the truth in a highly optimistic parallel universe."

The head chef wasscreaming at a bag of onions, saying, "You don't respect the prep station, and you certainly don't respect me!"

"Sometimes I feel like cow, mooing at the internet."

"Why don't we just cheat by being nice instead of doing unto others as they have done unto us?"

"If we measure this twice, it's still gonna be wrong, so let's just cut it once and pray to the drywall gods." I had to step in before they ruined a load-bearing wall, but the sheer confidence was imp...