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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.

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3 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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    WilvanderHeijden
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    3 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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    3 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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    ChickyChicky
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh Texas. Don't want federal regulation on their power grid, kill people when the grid fails in a snow storm. Kill people when the grid fails in a heat wave. Kill people when they don't want federal guidance on a pandemic.

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    Muff_Fluff
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    3 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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    NsG
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    3 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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    3 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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    Bacony Cakes
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    3 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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    3 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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    Green Machine
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    3 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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    3 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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    3 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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    Green Machine
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    3 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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    Stille20
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    3 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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    Pixie
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my knees are acting up it's not wise for me to use stairs, but other sports are okay...

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

    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.

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

    I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.

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    M O'Connell
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Marketing is all about extracting as much money from customers as possible, everything else be damned.

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    M O'Connell
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course there is. There's a statutorily-determined maximum amount of poop that can be in anything.

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

    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.

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

    A man... A dream...no, I see your problem, it is tricky putting a positive slant on it.

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

    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.

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