“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water […]

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from an anonymous heathen in washington, d.c.:

related: it must have been a pretty big bite

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at the washington restaurant where scott works, a customer recently informed one of his coworkers that when she was a waitress back in the day, tips were regarded as a luxury (a sentiment that’s been echoed by many commenters on this site).
thrilled as she was by this little history lesson, scott’s coworker decided a little […]

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many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:

from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:

from ben in san antonio, a talking door:

and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) […]

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“we really don’t hate the holidays,” says our anonymous foreign-policy elf in washington, d.c., “just passive-aggressive coworkers.”

related: perhaps a committee to assess the health of the committee?

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