#OverheardAtWork

During a team meeting today, our director was reviewing a recent phishing simulation we ran on our own employees. He put his head in his hands and muttered, "Thirty people clicked a link promising a f...

Hi, I gotta get something off my chest. The other day I went to an interview with a major multinational that has been operation for quite some time in our country. But when we talked about salary I a...

I work at a mid-sized law firm, and I walked past one of the partner's offices. He was on speakerphone shouting, "I don’t care if the raccoon was a registered emotional support animal, it still counts...

“I’ve been married for over 31 years and have been trained to notice and compliment my wife’s hair cut/color, purses, new clothes and shoes”

"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 look at people and just think that their life is one long hangover even though they don't drink."

So, I’m sitting in the quiet cubicle zone, and the VP of Finance suddenly gasps. She turns her monitor around to her analyst and whispers, "He didn't just hardcode the totals... he used a calculator a...

"Okay, I'm gonna hang up the phone now. You keep yelling until you feel better." My poor co-worker!

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 over a...

"It seems like every other week, I get excited about something, only to be told that I didn't seem to care when someone else was excited about something earlier, as if I was keeping score in the first...

Would you rather overhear your boss / superior saying, “he / she can do everything; we should give him / her more” or “he / she can’t do anything; we should take more off his / her plate.” Note: no ...

"If people actually bothered to be careful, we wouldn't have so many rules."

Average day working tech support where half the employees are boomers.

"Why don't we just cheat by being nice instead of doing unto others as they have done unto us?"

"If we measure this twice, it's still gonna be wrong, so let's just cut it once and pray to the drywall gods." I had to step in before they ruined a load-bearing wall, but the sheer confidence was imp...

"I feel like they have the data centers, but they don't have the rights to train the AI on textbooks instead of spam."

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

I was sitting in HR finishing up some paperwork when the director’s door opened. She was talking to a manager. She looked him dead in the eye and said, "Michael, micro-managing their bathroom breaks i...

“The way people criticize each other these days doesn’t actually convince me, it just turns me into more of an anarchist with each day.”

"What are the odds that displaying anger is code for displeased?"