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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.
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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).
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?
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.
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.
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
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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
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