Admin on phone with engineer: Hello, it's me. (pause) At the desk. (pause) I know, what are you wearing? (pause) Haha…okay, we need to end this conversation, because I do not need to go to a seminar.
Boston, Massachusetts
Admin on phone with engineer: Hello, it's me. (pause) At the desk. (pause) I know, what are you wearing? (pause) Haha…okay, we need to end this conversation, because I do not need to go to a seminar.
Boston, Massachusetts
Engineer #1: How's the baby?
Engineer #2: Great!
Engineer #1: I'm thinking of having one soon!
Engineer #2: Really? You're married?
Engineer #1: No, working on it.
Engineer #2: Oh, wow! You got engaged…congratulations!
Engineer #1: No, not yet.
Engineer #2: Do you even have a girlfriend?
Engineer #1: Working on it. It's hard to recruit women to come here…
New York
Overheard by: How?
Engineer: Did you grab my dongle?
Ohio
Architect to detailer: You can't depend on the caulk.
Vancouver
Canadia
Overheard by: just the intern
Engineer #1: I'm hung right now!
Engineer #2: What? Why are you hung?
Engineer #1: I don't know…
Mountain View, California
Overheard by: hung as in hung up …
Engineer: Welcome back. It's 2 pm. Where have you been?
Senior project surveyor: Oh, I had to go out drinkin'.
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: teh intern
Engineer, emphatically: You can ask me until you are blue in the face, but I still can’t give you an answer.
Boss, unimpressed: I need you to give me an answer.
Stratford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Deek
Engineer: Did you see that e-mail bob sent?
Technician: Yes, he’s creating an army of idiots in his own image!
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Engineer during meeting: So I tried to ask Hitler yesterday, but he was no help.
Senlac Drive
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: hope he doesn’t know I’m jewish…
Engineer: So, apparently she holds out her cell phone to people on the street and says, ‘This is my husband. Tell him he’s an asshole!’
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: thankfully unmarried
