Engineer #1: Are we really sure this is the best tool for what we’re doing?
Manager, shrugging: We’re eating our own dog food.
Engineer #2: We are not. It’s more like we’re feeding dog food to our cats.
411 1st Avenue South
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: engineer #3
Colleague #1: Pi is 3.14.
Colleague #2: You gotta be more accurate than that, it's 3.1415926536…
Colleague #1: No, that should be 535. If you're gonna use it as an example of accuracy…
Colleague #3: Maybe it was an example of irony? Ranting about accuracy and getting the 17th decimal place of pi wrong…
High Holborn
London
England
Petite art librarian: Penis it is! That's what it is, that's what we're supposed to use, according to the library of congress.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Assistant: I'm going to Starbucks; can I get you anything?
IT tech: What's Starbucks?
Lawrence, Kansas
Overheard by: a girl who HASN'T been living under a rock
Tech guy: It will take Zeus and all his pissed off gods going in and throwing all sorts of thunderbolts to straighten this out.
1 Dell Way
Round Rock, Texas
Male coworker: But Anne Heche is oddly hot, and she’d be okay with another woman in the bedroom. Plus, she’s insane, which makes her fun.
Female coworker: Well, guess if you’re fantasizing about someone bi and crazy she could be interesting…
Male coworker: See? See? I think she might actually be an alien. That’d be even better! Aliens are sexy.
Female coworker: No, no, now you’re just getting weird and nerdy. Aliens are not sexy.
Male coworker: I always imagined the female alien from Cocoon to be really sexy. She had a great body when the skin was on her, but there was something scary and yet awesome about the glowing part. I’d want her to keep her human skin on, but I imagine sex with her to be like nothing else you’ve ever imagined. And I imagine her kisses to taste like candy and electricity, like pop rocks or something.
Female coworker: Okay, now you’ve let me know too much information, and you’re still getting all nerdy.
Male coworker: Okay, you’re right. This is starting to sound weird.
Elmsford, New York
Overheard by: Bored Beyond Belief
IT nerd: The great thing about The Smurfs is that they at least would go on reasonably exciting adventures.
Calgary
Canadia
IT employee: Birthdays and anniversaries I can't remember for shit… But IP addresses? Those I know.
Austin, Texas
Assistant: So how is your daughter?
Boss's wife: She's fine. She made honor roll. She's getting fat…
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Office Drone #3784
Intern to coworker: Cathy*'s never played a video game in her life!
Coworker to Cathy*: That's probably why you do poorly here; this is the corporate version of Frogger.
Boston, Massachusetts
