#OverheardAtWork

I’m going to celebrate the RTO by wearing a dinosaur costume to the office. And then I’ll win employee of the year award.

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...

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...

"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."

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

"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?"

“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.”

"When will these people realize that I watch too much Top Gear?"

"We want this brand to feel like a friendly ghost… it’s present, comforting, but ultimately dead inside." about a very conservative brand.

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

"One of the hardest things to do is tell people that I didn't care and still don't."