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For many of us, good relationships with our colleagues are key to surviving in the workplace. That's how inside jokes and banter (saviors of the coffee machine conversation) start.

But to an outsider, second branch manager Betty giving her employee a vivid description of her grandkid's diaper contents can sound a little too much. Or precisely enough to have a good laugh. Some phrases are totally normal in specific jobs, but just look so bad when put in quotation marks.

Thus a Twitter hashtag was created to collect some of the most entertaining phrases people overheard at work.

Take a look at the funniest additions to the #overheardatwork hashtag. Please share amusing things you accidentally heard at your work in the comment section.

More info: twitter.com

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you add the first twenty to the second twenty you get forty. Which is completely without meaning. Just thought you should know.

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The hashtag was very much overlooked, with the most popular responses reaching below 50 likes. For sure there must be many more brain-farts committed in a work environment that could be shared, unless everyone suddenly had to sign overwhelmingly strict NDAs (non-disclosure agreements).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a man in the US who made it clear to the entire world that he was the dumbest person alive. He was so dumb that it took him 4 years and when his time was up he was too dumb to understand the meaning of "GET OUT!".

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Easiest red flag ever. If you've been together a month and never been invited to meet his or her friends then you're being used.

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However, a lot of additions came from nurses. What is it about nursing that provides so many unusual encounters? And why so few from customer service, like sassy things a telemarketer says to a customer before breaking the rule of not hanging up?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well if there are a thousand puppies, that’s roughly three for every person who is bound to view this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't matter. Less than a week later Trump the loser, lost bigly.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sort of want to try this at my company, but there are several people who wouldn't question it...

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Nevena
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if it was possible, all of the world's problems cold be resolved in maybe a week

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

some of the fanboys are insane and get real mad if you steal their oc

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Some of these quotes are outright artistic, notice the literary devices used here: imagery, analogies, puns, etc. And of course, cultural jokes and faux pas.

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the chicken soup they've been serving in hospital here is vegetarian. It must be because I have yet to find any chicken in it. The bread roll probably has more chicken content. At this point, I'd settle for a feather.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hear this often at work: "I think I need to get my eyes checked, cause I can't see myself coming in tomorrow".

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Daniel (ShadowDrakken)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

mushrooms are delish! I love taking portabellas and using them as crust for mini pizzas :)

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Jeff Diamond
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the last year and a half, conspiracy theorists have multiplied like catholic rabbits.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as there's no hate behind it, it cracks me up whenever someone says 'the gays'. "You know who likes same-sex realtionships?.... The gays" lmao.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*shrug* maybe I'm missing why it's crazy for someone not to be aware of "Finals" if they aren't into professional basketball

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