165Kviews
35 Times Twitter Users Shook Their Heads At The Things They Overheard At Work
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
This post may include affiliate links.
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).
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!".
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?
Well if there are a thousand puppies, that’s roughly three for every person who is bound to view this.
some of the fanboys are insane and get real mad if you steal their oc
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.
I hear this often at work: "I think I need to get my eyes checked, cause I can't see myself coming in tomorrow".
mushrooms are delish! I love taking portabellas and using them as crust for mini pizzas :)
In the last year and a half, conspiracy theorists have multiplied like catholic rabbits.
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.
This isn't uncommon. Not a lot of restaurants want you buying someone else's food to celebrate their own grand opening. It does become...tiresome when you have groups who are forbidden to use the other's tools. Want to have fun - try to get an IBMer, Apple guy, and someone from Google together remotely and have them discuss how to make your banking app start showing transactions again after the update failed.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.
Marketing is all about extracting as much money from customers as possible, everything else be damned.
Is this the same dude that thinks that dogs are boys and cats are girls?
Of course there is. There's a statutorily-determined maximum amount of poop that can be in anything.
Because people don't want to hear what terrific jobs they are doing, they want to hear that you hired a few people to help them.
One of the goals of blockchain is to develop methods to make them obsolete. Many companies like REMME already offer tools that replace your passwords.
One co-worker to another: "You never realize how crazy kids make you until you hear yourself saying something you never thought would come out of your mouth. Like the day my neighbor heard me yelling at my 5 year old "STOP LICKING THE DRIVEWAY!'"
Overheard in the drafting department of an engineering company that designed pipelines and gas plants: "All you gotta know is that pipes are round, water runs downhill, and payday is every other Friday."
Whoever put in next door's guttering didn't know about the second one
Load More Replies...
Overheard in a wealth management company: "It says they get a 10% free withdrawal. Who do I ask do that math for me?"
So last week we had to bury a hedgehog cause he got knocked over by a car. Let’s call him Dave hedgehog. If you watch Bottom you’ll get it. Anyway when we were burying him I said to Phil let’s put the dead bees in there as well cause we had a few lately and then what would happen if like a lightening strike and then boom hedgehog with bee stingers for spikes. That’s a film I wanna see. It’s the new sharknado. Call him hedge bee or or bee hog. Lol
I overheard a conversation about chickens at work. We were talking about 'them man made chickens' which turned out to be battery hens and someone asked if they really had batteries in them.
I laughed once. Once. I used to follow this blog. Overheard on NYC was funnier.
One co-worker to another: "You never realize how crazy kids make you until you hear yourself saying something you never thought would come out of your mouth. Like the day my neighbor heard me yelling at my 5 year old "STOP LICKING THE DRIVEWAY!'"
Overheard in the drafting department of an engineering company that designed pipelines and gas plants: "All you gotta know is that pipes are round, water runs downhill, and payday is every other Friday."
Whoever put in next door's guttering didn't know about the second one
Load More Replies... Overheard in a wealth management company: "It says they get a 10% free withdrawal. Who do I ask do that math for me?"
So last week we had to bury a hedgehog cause he got knocked over by a car. Let’s call him Dave hedgehog. If you watch Bottom you’ll get it. Anyway when we were burying him I said to Phil let’s put the dead bees in there as well cause we had a few lately and then what would happen if like a lightening strike and then boom hedgehog with bee stingers for spikes. That’s a film I wanna see. It’s the new sharknado. Call him hedge bee or or bee hog. Lol
I overheard a conversation about chickens at work. We were talking about 'them man made chickens' which turned out to be battery hens and someone asked if they really had batteries in them.
I laughed once. Once. I used to follow this blog. Overheard on NYC was funnier.
