Engineers

New web admin: Why isn't there a feedback form on the website?
Engineer: We took it down. The customers were using it wrong. They kept asking us questions.

San Jose, California

Female engineer: They don't have any steel members to erect yet.
Annoying guy: That's what she said!
Female engineer, leaving: No, for the last time, she never said anything. Ever. Now I'm going to call your mother to pick you up after school. Fucking trolls!

Manhattan, New York

Engineer #1: I call it a Sloppy Jose.
Engineer #2: Dude… Not cool.
Engineer #1: What? It's spicier.

Burnsville, Minnesota

Overheard by: Kind of Hungry now

CTO, jokingly: What the fuck!? Are you on dope?
Engineer: No. That's my daughter. And she won't share. Bitch.

Norwalk, Connecticut

Engineer: This is an eight-by-six wall.
Drafter: Sixteen-by-eight?
Engineer: No, man. Six. Six!
Drafter: Sixty-six?

Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Sits between them

Writer: I'm really bummed that my boss is leaving, and I think everyone in the group is going to quit.
Engineer: I can't think of anyone else from downstairs who is leaving. But there have been a lot of defects.
Writer: That, and defections.
Engineer: What's the difference?

Alpharetta, Georgia

IT engineer, about large file to upload: It was big, that's why it took so long to get it up.
IT desktop deck: Hahahaha.
IT manager: I'll leave you two alone.

The Pentagon
Arlington, Virginia

Young engineer #1: Hey, dude, how are you?
Young engineer #2: Oh, man, Johnson is killing me today!

Greenville, Texas

Engineering manager: He just knocked a ChapStick out of my ear with a grape!

Central Florida

Overheard by: Arfnotz

Female security to male engineer who had again forgotten ID badge: I don't know why you guys don't just put it in your pants and just leave it there!

Portland, Oregon