Well, Two Sets Of Eyes Are Better Than One…

Geek #1: So, I just don't know why it's running so slowly.
Geek #2: Did you take a tcp dump?
Geek #1: Oh, that's a good idea. I'll go take a dump and look at it!
Geek #2: Let me know how that works out for you.

Westminster, Colorado

Posted on December 9, 2008
Colorado, Dorks, Geeks, & Nerds, Restroom, Technology, Weirdness

The What Game?

Employee: So, how was your night?
Boss: I played catcher last night, so now my butt's killing me!
Employee: Um, you're talking about the softball game, right?

Denver, Colorado

Posted on December 5, 2008
Body Parts, Bosses and Underlings, Colorado, Questions, Sexuality, Sports

The Lost Stanza to This Land Is Your Land

Work bee, complaining about wife's: So I said, “Babe, we live in this country for two reasons, breakfast food and good toilet paper.”

Colorado

Overheard by: shaine

Posted on November 10, 2008
Colorado, Employees, Family, Gripes, Health & Hygiene, Meals and Snacks

Guess You've Never Seen Rent, Alice

Male coworker: I have a date with a new woman this weekend.
Female coworker: Yeah? What's she like?
Male coworker: Sounds promising. She doesn't smoke. No kids. No pets.
Female coworker: You do realize that your endgame involves being this woman's boyfriend and not her landlord, don't you?

Lakewood, Colorado

Posted on October 23, 2008
Colorado, Compare and contrast, Coworkers, Feelings, Questions, Relationships

Marie Curie Heard That a Lot

Female coworker to another: You are so smart! You should have been born a man!

Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: sixtwentysix

Posted on September 25, 2008
Colorado, Compliments, Coworkers, General Idiocy

When Pragmatists Attempt Wisdom

Forgetful manager: Fool me once… Um… Shame on me… Fool me twice… And… I'll have to file a disciplinary report on you.

Boulder, Colorado

Overheard by: clang

Posted on September 9, 2008
Bosses and Underlings, Colorado, Lies, Office Politics, Threats

Right Down to My Motivational Poster

White male suit: How's tricks?
White female suit: Tricks?
White male suit: It's a hip hop way of saying “How's it going?”.
White female suit: You're so gangsta.

Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: Totally gangsta.

Posted on August 13, 2008
Colorado, Default, Language barrier, Questions, Race, Suits, Words

But My Real Passion Is Popping Out of Cakes

Male employee: I dropped my pen down under my desk.
Cute female employee: I’ll get down there and get it for you.
Male employee: I don’t think that you crawling up from under my desk is the sort of thing people need to see.
Cute female employee: It’s okay! I come up from under lots of people’s desks.

Greeley, Colorado

Overheard by: Alacrity Fitzhugh