Sarge: You’re lucky somebody around here likes you.
Office peon: Lots of people like me!
Sarge: Stuffed animals don’t count.
Newark, Delaware
Overheard by: Shaye
Sarge: You’re lucky somebody around here likes you.
Office peon: Lots of people like me!
Sarge: Stuffed animals don’t count.
Newark, Delaware
Overheard by: Shaye
Manager: How do you tell the client that they’re an idiot? What’s the wording I should use for that?
1 South Road
Harrison, Ohio
Editor: I know it’s not truthful to say we’re still generating responses to your proprosal, but it’s better than saying we’re drunk and lazy.
Camden Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Ren
User: We want a tutorial on the website’s front page so we know how to use the website.
Tech: Well, from the front page, you just click on “Help”…
User: Yes, but we want the instructions themselves on the front page.
Tech: I’m sorry, no. The user’s only allowed to be so stupid here. They can click on the help button.
User: Oh, okay!
695 Palmer Drive
Raleigh, North Carolina
Co-worker: This report is bullshit.
Boss: Did you just say “bullshit”? I thought you folks weren’t allowed to swear?
Co-worker: I didn’t swear.
Boss: Yeah you did, no big deal. I don’t want your turban to unfurl.
1 Technology Drive
Milpitas, California
Boss: All signs point to them being assfucks.
Horsham, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Picture Drawer
Obnoxious 20-something IT guy to another: Oh, look, here's another set with cats as the background, aren't they just adorable?
Middle-aged librarian lady, overhearing: Da Vinci drew those cats. (pause) And they'll rip your fucking head off.
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: marion the other librarian
Designer #1: So what do you want the parameter name to be?
Designer #2: Let's call it “xmlFileUrl”, with the “f” and the “u” capitalized.
Baltimore, Maryland
Co-worker #1: I finally found that fax you were looking for.
Co-worker #2: Great where was it?
Co-worker #1: On this 3×4 pink message pad. It was a phone message you freak.
30 Riverview Park
Red Deer, Alberta
Canadia
Beastly employee: That reminds me of when I was skinny. I was smoking. With my thigh-high boots.
Pretty employee: Mmmm… cool.
Beastly employee: I won’t ever wear them again. I am too fat. I will bring them in for you.
Pretty employee, unhappily: Ummmm… ok.
Passerby employee to pretty employee, sympathetically: The boots went up to her camel toe… I’m sorry.
Hawthorne, New York
Overheard by: I have my own office
