Internet

Luddite sales manager: What's “SSL”?
Lead developer: “Secure Socket Layer.” It's a…
Marketing manager, listening to iPod: Who's an insecure soccer player?

Software Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Overheard by: Kiwibloke

30-year old accounting manager to 23-year old employee: So, my mom has a crush on you after seeing your picture on my Facebook profile.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: Cougar Bait

Coworker, surfing the net: What the crap? Is every Preston* in the world naked in their profile?

West Lafayette, Indiana

Cube guy on phone: Should I e-mail you when I have another dump?

Fairfax, Virginia

Female employee: I'm not really doing anything except drinking caffeine in my office and looking at unicorn websites. I found a unicorn name generator…

Denver, Colorado

Creative director: I can't take the course because I don't have the software.
Peon: Why don't you find out what the software costs and how to get it, and submit a proposal?
Creative director: I don't know where to find that information.
Peon: Why don't you use something called “the internet” to look it up?
Creative director: You mean like go into Google and type the name of the software?
Peon: Yeah, like that.
Creative director: Oh, good idea.

Columbus, Ohio

Overheard by: Horse Whisperer

Office drone, surfing the net: I can't find an image of a woman in a prison jumpsuit that would fit in a shopping cart…

Manhattan, New York

Boss: How do you spell “sopping”?
Assistant: I don't know, just google it.
Boss: Haven't you realized yet that you're my google?

Salem, Oregon

Overheard by: Jax

Employee #1, about former boss: Why is her Facebook picture a bird?
Employee #2: She loved birds. She has a cajillion of them. When she worked here there was bird shit everywhere. There are still some remnants.

Falls Church, Virginia

Overheard by: My desk has a window

Intern chick #1: You know, it bothers me going into a store to buy condoms. But I am equally troubled by the idea that even when I buy them online, someone has to physically stuff them into a box with the lube I ordered, and then ship it to my address. And they're there in some warehouse, thinking “Susie's getting laid tonight!”
Intern chick #2: You should look into Xanax.

Rochester, New York