Boss: Does something pop up when I do this?
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Overheard by: Ideally
Boss: Does something pop up when I do this?
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Overheard by: Ideally
Offshore driller, turning around to boss: Quit poking me!
Older boss: Man, we ain't on Facebook!
Kuwait City
Kuwait
Secretary: I waste so much time trying to make it clear and succinct, when on the phone I can just say, “send me this, I need it.” Honestly, I kick and scream when I have no other choice but to use the internet!
Cheerful academic, placatingly: Well, it's great for communicating with Rome and London!
Manhattan, New York
Service rep: The program was running, and it sends about one e-mail a second.
Customer: Okay, I think it was going for about five minutes, so it sent 800 e-mails.
Service rep: Um… Not really… No.
Ontario
Canadia
Admin on phone: I got a fax in the mail…
Pocatello, Idaho
Newspaper e-media manager: Okay, if there are no changes, I'm going to send this e-mail blast.
Publisher, in mock panic: Wait! Stop the keyboards!
Augusta, Georgia
Teacher: The 6th graders were videotaping themselves at the dance and then posting it on the tube you!
Elementary School
Phoenix, Arizona
Boss to beleaguered IT guy: I have no more bandwidth! My hard drive is completely full. I need you to call Steve Jobs and tell him to stop the internet, because this company is getting off right now!
Austin, Texas
Secretary: Isn't he the one that died?
File clerk, busy typing: Yes.
Secretary: Oh. Okay, well, I won't send the e-mail to him, then.
File clerk, mumbling while typing: Wow.
Riverside, California
Team assistant to IT guy: I can't get this file e-mailed cuz it's too big. Can you come up and zip it or something?
IT guy: Why don't you send it to me? I'll see what I can do.
The Hague
Netherlands
Overheard by: Out of Office
