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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If you add the first twenty to the second twenty you get forty. Which is completely without meaning. Just thought you should know.
so that means next year is the answer to life the universe and everything.... 20+22 = 42
Load More Replies...And if you divide 2020 by 1.016607951685, you get 1987, which is the year I was born in. Coincidence? I think not!
2021 divide by 0252356870824749 get you 80085, coincidence? I think NOT!
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).
A study has shown that policies where people have to change their passwords frequently tend to encourage writing down passwords and choosing easier passwords "because I have to change the damn thing again in 1 month."
Passwords are by far more likely to be hacked remotely than at the office. But that is a fun piece of trivia.
Load More Replies...This would be true if someone forced me to wear a specific type of underwear for different occasions and I sometimes forget to put on any.
NIST disagrees and so do I. Start using longer passphrases like "ILoveMyDogFrankie or something. Passwords purpose is to ward off brute force attacks. The longer the password the better.
No, passwords shouldn't be changed regularly in most cases. Please do not spread this.
In my job we change passwords every month, but they are always in the line of "month-job name-year" (not real system, btw) so even the most useless hacker could take us down.
To some people you should say: underwear are like passwords - you never share and change regularly.
never shared underwear, have stolen a clean pair from my mother if i started my period the day i was doing laundry.
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!".
That overripened kumquat will haunt us for a million years.
Load More Replies...Omg me 😆 I know I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack but at least the light still works. I'm a competent person, I just process things at a slower rate in my brain
Our present President hasn't been in for 4 years yet and it seems he's already screwed up the United States.
When I owned a bar I would say “I don’t know how to make all the drinks, I know how to get the drinks made! I’m an ends guy”….To which my friend said, “so you are a man with no means”…😉
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.
Dated one of these. He was actually really insecure and afraid of jinxing things with me. Married 8 years now
Load More Replies...This is great advice, I was seeing someone in high school kinda like that, we would hang out (make out) alone, but when we were at school he would just act like my friend. Found out later that he was embarrassed that I was black. At our 20th school reunion, he apologized, told me that he made a huge mistake because he really did like me a lot, but he got in his own way and messed it up.
and an old song from the forties "I never take her where the gang goes when I take my sugar to tea" -always sounded a bit creepy to me.
Load More Replies...Oh, I think that's me. People used to bring me chocolate and coffee or ask what happened whenever I was sunken deep into some nice bit of coding...
And yes, an an extra long seatbelt for the return. Lol
Load More Replies...Classified information. Can't have just anyone turning up!
Load More Replies...Ah shame. That was last year and it was only cocoa, not the finished product. It was Lindt, tough... so who knows how fancy that cocoa was.
I live in Switzerland, never heard of that. If it should have actually happened (I'm too lazy to google now) it was a unique thing probably caused by some sort of big mistake. Definitely not an everyday event, but we had a chocolate truck losing all of it's load on the road in my village recently.
Aug 19, 2020 news about chocolate snowing from The Guardian: A real-life W***y Wonka would have been proud. But residents of a Swiss town got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory malfunctioned. The Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed local reports on Tuesday that there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation in an area making roasted “cocoa nibs” in its factory in Olten, between Zurich and Basel. The nibs, fragments of crushed cocoa beans, are the basis of chocolate. Combined with strong winds on Friday morning, the powder spread around the immediate vicinity of the factory, leaving a fine cocoa dusting. The company said one car was lightly coated, and that it has offered to pay for any cleaning needed – but hasn’t yet been taken up on the offer.
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?
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.
Which is why we should be giving tax credits to put more solar panels on people's houses
Load More Replies...Well if there are a thousand puppies, that’s roughly three for every person who is bound to view this.
Have we got plenty of newspaper? Cos cuddling's all very well, but there will also be lots of weeing.
They went way off topic and on an extreme tangent there, but the one guy made a peach joke about impeach and the second one referenced the classic English language children's book James and the Giant Peach by Roal Dahl, who also wrote the story Willie Wonka was based on. Strange turn for the post, but excellent book and decent movie if you are interested.
Correction: a year and a week later. And another impeachment. The biggest loser this country has ever seen..
Load More Replies...Join my new movement, dictionaries for Conservatives!
Load More Replies...Reminder that trump raped a 13 yr old girl w Jeffrey Epstein along w what he did to the teens in his pageants that he admitted to on video so you lying about biden bc he kissed his granddaughter is particularly disgusting
Load More Replies...unless everyone was having a bad day and that one person wanted to give ppl a something to smile or laugh about. using unicorn is a clever way for describing pink or purple and i giggled myself wen i read this.
Load More Replies...It depends on if they are the majestic or uwu variety.
Load More Replies...Unicorn like "unicorn vomit" made up a lots of colours. Probably written comments in lots of different colours
My daughter used to help me do the dishes wearing just a shirt and pampers. It was the cuties thing ever and we have a few pictures. Those were the days.
I use to love filling bottles,I loved seeing water flow.I still kinda do.Lol.Hehe
Load More Replies...some of the fanboys are insane and get real mad if you steal their oc
The problem with monotheism is that you only get one imaginary friend to play with.
Each religion is always have their own megalomaniac that always think they have GOD on their pocket..
The canon that contradicts itself constantly ? The canon that so incredibly absurd that only someone with severe mental illness would consider it to be anything other than a cruel joke ?
Load More Replies...I've heard Islam and Christianity described as fanfics of Judaism.
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 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.
Sorry Scagsy, feel better soon if that is the reason you are there.
Load More Replies...I once asked a waiter for their vegetarian options and they recommend the chicken. Must have been this person!!!
I hear this often at work: "I think I need to get my eyes checked, cause I can't see myself coming in tomorrow".
I said something to my friend's kids about shampee when they were toddlers. I don't remember doing that. Apparently they said it for years :)
You must either not get on with your colleagues or be lacking in the sense of humour department then. Innuendo is always funny!
Load More Replies...I was offered a piece spicy chocolate at work. I didn't think he was serious when he said 9 MILLION Scoville. It was like eating a tiny piece of fire.
mushrooms are delish! I love taking portabellas and using them as crust for mini pizzas :)
So you laughed out loud, out loud. Must have been very loud.
Load More Replies...You guys trying to guess their flavors... you realize there are human hands inside them, don't you? XD
I had a boss who, when I asked how things were going, said that he was busy, "juggling balls." It was so hard to not laugh.
This makes me concerned that these two don't fully understand the effects of BOFA.
close... halal and kosher are nearly identical, kosher is actually more strict (usually)
But what if you're really dehydrated? Is it allowed to drink or eat if it's medical necessary? I don't want to sound rude, I just want to learn about other religions.
Load More Replies...Fasting Muslims cannot drink water. It's haram or trefah for them. Kosher is halal for Muslims to eat or drink btw. Since kosher is like a more strict form of halal. So halal = kosher + additional things.
In the last year and a half, conspiracy theorists have multiplied like catholic rabbits.
i think it's just that they are getting more attention then they used to
Load More Replies...B seems to be both ignorant and wrong. I'm guessing A wants to talk about the fact that SARS-CoV-2 came from a virus laboratory in Wuhan (which has pretty much been accepted by everyone as true by now). There is also this theory that this virus is man made (probably with 'good intentions' to study the virus family and what diffrent possible mutations could be like). This is not proved to be definitely true, but it is very plausible. Fun fact: just weeks before Joe Biden went public and wanted the UN to look in to the lab theory because everything points to it, the Swedish government made a public statement claiming this to be a conspiracy theory and fake news :D
Dingbats who spread B.S. about "conspiracy theories" are aiding and abetting anti-vax paranoia and contributing to the infection and mutation rates.
OK, which ones, and be prepared to provide evidence from credible sources.
Load More Replies...Agreed! . My birth plan was thrown out the window the moment my waters broke :(
Load More Replies...water breaks, go to hospital and press real hard when they tell you too while trying not to pass out from contractions - worked perfectly fine for me twice and now have two really annoying almost teens running around and I had no extra stress for trying to plan the whole thing out ahead of time...
Well, we're millennials.. we had a baby.. and a birth plan.. and the best piece of advice I can give anyone is to take that birth plan and throw it out the window! Stuff happens, suddenly pain killers become very attractive, and for my wife it ended in a cesarean. We read the plan now and laugh! I mean would you go to a dentist and say "no thanks, I want this root canal done the natural way.." So "rolling" with it is about as good advice as I could give anyone. (Also, I am aware all I did was "be there" as my warrior of a wife powered through the birth of our daughter for 28hrs!)
So am I the only one really really hoping that "worker" is an ob/ midwife/ l&d nurse/ doulas ect. Because if they are not a birth professional why the heck is an employee asking a client about how she expects her baby to exit her uterus.
All the advice we got when preparing for the birth was that birth plans rarely go to plan as there are too many variables and ultimately you will end up being disappointed. Go with the flow is the official advice, at least outside of the US. I suppose if giving birth cost you 30K you want to get you moneys worth!
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.
Trump has the most desiccated hair. And you KNOW that JFK got secret money from Colgate sponsorships with those teeth.
Load More Replies...Is she actually ‘in politics’? Is that because she was she the wife of an ex president?
Yes the spouse is expected to get involved and create a project they want to promote.
Load More Replies...And yet fox lost it when she dared (like many first ladies before her) to wear sleeveless tops.
Does your little winky get hard trolling? That's how you get off? I'll send you my Venmo bc I deserve to get paid for this
Load More Replies...*shrug* maybe I'm missing why it's crazy for someone not to be aware of "Finals" if they aren't into professional basketball
I'm a bad Canadian. I don't give a rodent's posterior about ice hockey.
Load More Replies...I never have the slightest idea when any sporting event is happening. If, say, a cashier asks, “You watching the game tonight?” I never even know what sport they’re talking about. Although when I delivered pizzas back in the day, I loved working on Super Bowl Sunday. Customers tipped like crazy people!
I get lost when my ex manager does motivational pep talks using American football analogies.
Same, and I’m American. I neither know nor care what a running back is.
Load More Replies...My favorite way to get across to someone how little I'm into sports is when they ask me about a football team - I say that's baseball, right? The looks of confusion and then the how do I tell her looks are fun to watch 😂
Also a little but gremlins if the batteries ran low
Load More Replies...Teddy Ruxpin didn't "learn" new words from listening to you... Furby did...
Load More Replies...Poorly edited post. Some of these are Workplace Wisdom, some are funny and some are, indeed, comments the inspire head-shaking.
Yeah that's crazy, hated pilates, but because she kept saying see you next week, I kept going
As someone in an LTR with a Brit, I can assure you that this statement is accurate.
He couldn't walk out of the session, cos it would be embarressing. What's confusing?
Load More Replies...I decided to take your advice, and you're so right! Snorted coffee through my nose laughing.! Thank You!! :-)
Load More Replies...Or a restaurant where people take out their dentures so that they can actually eat.
Load More Replies...You should probably quit before you get pregnant - I would imagine the chemicals in them stays in your system for quite a while.
I keep hearing smoking pregnant women say they've been told by their OB-gyn they have to "keep smoking or the baby will suffer withdraws." I call BS.
Load More Replies...Not the job of everyone at a publisher to read the book, most the jobs are production
No one should be allowed to speak such terrifying words without suffering consequences.
Stairs can be too hard on your knees while yoga/pilates can be more gentle.
Downward dog and downward lift are two different disciplines.
Yeah I'm just gonna hope that person works in like a hospital or something
Nope, followed the link, was definitely not pants, and now I really want to know what happened
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.
Do wrestlers make it good or bad? Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, and Ashton Kutcher all wrestled in school. It could go either way.
Marketing is all about extracting as much money from customers as possible, everything else be damned.
Sounds about right, if it breaks they have to buy it again and again.
That lovely capitalist ideal, designed obsolescence so you have to buy another one.
Makes sense. If it's awful, it breaks faster, meaning it's re-purchased frequently.
Is this the same dude that thinks that dogs are boys and cats are girls?
Sexual dimorphism is very common, especially in birds. They also have different names (gander, drake, rooster, hen, ram, ewe etc) depending on their gender. This is a teaching moment, not one of mockery. Since kids are read the "Ugly Duckling" to teach them you can be butt ugly and grow out of it, its not a big leap to think swans are the same species but just look different when they grow up.
Of course there is. There's a statutorily-determined maximum amount of poop that can be in anything.
Imagine those eyes staring at you and critiquing your technique after meeting that special person on Tinder.
A few years ago at a swimming pool saw a late middle-aged dude with a tramp-stamp....a HARLEY-DAVIDSON tramp stamp.....the mind boggles.
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.
Well, it's overheard! Maybe it was overheard incorrectly. I like to give people the benefice of the doubt at least once.
Disney just added a Biden to their set in the Hall of Presidents.
A man... A dream...no, I see your problem, it is tricky putting a positive slant on it.
One man's struggle to...no, no, it's already gone off!
Load More Replies...You just need "Former" in front of it. We love a redemption story. Former nazi saves 1000 kittens from certain doom. Former nazi leads gay pride parade.
How to choose a career: art school or......world 'leader'
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.
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.
