#OverheardAtWork

Our top sales rep was on a cold call, and I could hear him through the glass partition. He was struggling, but then he suddenly blurted out, "Look, if you buy this today, I will personally come o… more

pointing at a tiny, low-res JPEG: "Can you just make this photo look less sad and more corporate?"

I was waiting for the elevator when the CEO and the CFO walked out of the executive suite. The CEO was shaking his head and said, "We have a $5 million budget deficit, but sure, let’s debate the … more

I walked past two scientists arguing intensely over a centrifuge. One of them yelled, "If this batch fails because you forgot to label the control group, I'm hiding your favorite pipette!&quo… more

"If television and movie writers wrote textbooks we'd all be doctors and there'd be no crime."

"Why is it that when AI tells you whatever you want it's 'perfect,' yet when I do the same thing it's 'lying?'"

"Sometimes I leave the empty bag there so that they think there's some left instead of immediately knowing that there isn't."

"Sometimes when I read my classmates' discussion posts I think the school's computer reshuffled them to force me not to copy their answers."

"I feel like I'm so good at ignoring things by explaining them away, but then someone throws the curveball of me needing to do something about it as if it would solve even one of my problems.… more

People don’t ignore you because you’re not good.
They ignore you because they don’t understand your value fast enough.
Clarity beats talent in the market.

“My ex husband got into a motorcycle crash in the keys where he got slammed into the wall and then thrown off the bike… this is about his sixth time. That’s why I keep an insurance policy on him.”

"Oh nothing, it's just sometimes I feel like I am sneaking patience like cookies."

"Sometimes I would rather piss off everybody rather than please any one of them."

"This isn't benevolent sexism, this is a female terrorist."

Starting to wonder if profiles of POC are shadow banned

"Leadership is starting to care about deadlines more now... maybe we should start thinking about underpromising more... I don't know.. maybe the director has some ideas on how to manage delivery deadlin… more

"Sometimes I put numbing agents in my hair and say that they can't stigmatize what they can't see."

"We can't all be Superman. Somebody has to be Batman."

"Sometimes I feel like when they settled The West they never stopped settling, even after The West was completely settled."

"I feel like people tell me that I think something and then I spend my life worrying that I think it."

“Think if we billed actual hours worked they’d listen and push back when we escalated scope creep?”

"Sometimes I feel like they suggest that I do something just so they can get mad at me for doing it."

"I never understood posting for likes, I could just like the idea myself instead posting it."

"It's exactly that attitude that makes me wear a red hat for no reason other than to escape your temperament. Then it just upsets you more for some unrelated reason."

"Have you ever stopped to consider that you may be anxious because someone else is jealous and mad?"

"No. Ohhh, so that's why they won't help me when something eventually goes wrong!"

&q… more

I have overheard one manager telling other hourly people that another manager is disgruntled about her job. That manager that is telling people is so freaking immature. I wish her manager would addr… more

"I'm complaining about scammers and my coworkers think I'm talking about them. Even if they are not getting your money they are still a total nuisance."

"They were always forcing me into some mistake to prove a point I wouldn't be listening to anyway. These things never did come at worse times."

"Well, how about that? Good deeds really don't go unpunished."

"I've been thinking that maybe if I learned to express my dislike without resorting to shaming and threats people might actually like me and less people would crash their cars."

"This is no conspiracy, this is a contract."

Anything juicy this week or is work drama down like the stock market?

"You'll be forced to say 'no' because it's really a bad idea."

"They are very coercive about getting their way and because they are insufferable it only gets worse with each day."

"This 'sea monster' is a trolling. What makes you think it would make anything easy for anyone?"

"I feel like the stupid questions are more about making something culturally acceptable rather than ethical."

“No matter what you did in the last Sprint, you need a user story for it - if you went to the bathroom, you need a story for it.” 😂🤣😂