IT staff to engineer on phone: If you follow the document I sent you, you will be able to complete the web page.
Engineer: I can't read.
Silicon Valley, California
IT staff to engineer on phone: If you follow the document I sent you, you will be able to complete the web page.
Engineer: I can't read.
Silicon Valley, California
Intern: So yeah, the first twenty minutes I was just sitting next to him in the breakroom I didn’t say a single word.
Engineer: Does he freak you out that much?
Intern: Well no, I just thought he didn’t speak any English.
Engineer: So you finally said something?
Intern: Yeah, I tried to make some small talk by asking what cubicle he sits in. But he spent the next 5-10 minutes trying to explain.
Engineer: He’s not that bad at English…
Intern: I don’t know. He kept asking what direction was North. By the time I made him point to it, I wished I never said anything. Seriously, what do cardinal directions have to do with your cubicle?
41131 Vincenti Court
Novi, Michigan
Engineer: I have this weird beeping signal on my phone. Do I need to dial a 1 when calling this number?
Tech support guy takes the phone and hits redial.
Tech support guy: No. That is a busy signal.
5032 South Ash Avenue
Tempe, Arizona
Tech support engineer: I can’t believe I have pants on!
Rt. 1
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Voice over PA system: Would everyone on the 12th floor please gather by the copy machine for an instructional tutorial on how to operate it?
Engineer #1: Is she serious?
Engineer #2: Yeah… There's a lot of architects in this office.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: tbomb
Engineer: I keep getting a message that says the document has been deleted. What does that mean?
Database admin: What do you think it means?
Rochester, New York
Engineer #1: Can I borrow these probes?
Engineer #2: Are you going to bring them back?
Engineer #1: Yeah, sure.
Engineer #2: Probes never come back. There’s like a probe-hole somewhere. Like the same place socks go in the laundry.
Engineer #1: … Did you just say ‘probe-hole’?
Engineer #2: Ummm… Yes.
Rochester, New York
Female quality engineer: There is a fine line between wanting to hurt someone and having fun with them.
Texas
Building Engineer: A freon leak won’t kill you. It’ll just asphyxiate you a little.
2100 Second Street, SW
Washington, DC
Engineer, referring to disk gun: I think I'd rather take it in the ass.
(office mates burst into giggles)
Engineer: No! I mean get shot in the ass.
(more giggles)
Engineer, exasperated: That came out wrong…
Berlin Turnpike, Connecticut
