Male developer: I want to make sure the data loaded correctly, pardon me if I’m a bit anal
Female project manager: I enjoy anal.
2025 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
Male developer: I want to make sure the data loaded correctly, pardon me if I’m a bit anal
Female project manager: I enjoy anal.
2025 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
Dinosaur: I hate this hourglass.
IT: The hourglass at your cursor?
Dinosaur: Yes, can you remove it?
IT: Why?
Dinosaur: It slows my computer down.
7071 University Boulevard
Winter Park, Florida
Software Engineer: We had free pizza today to celebrate sexual harassment or something like that. I didn’t really pay attention. I just got the pizza.
30000 Mill Creek Avenue
Alpharetta, Georgia
IT: That’s “Venus”, our main file server.
Architect: Why is it called “Venus”?
IT: Becuase it’s a big black bad-ass server.
603 King Street
Alexandria, Virginia
Overheard by: Charles Warren
Boss: Did you have a computer ethics class in college?
Programmer: [Scoffs] There is no ethics, it’s a computer.
10 Salt Creek Lane
Hinsdale, Illinois
Overheard by: Bill Dwyer
Tech: Oh crap, I’ve been infected by Google.
30833 Northwestern Highway
Farmington Hills, Michigan
IT guy to another, about version 2.0 of the website: Is this the final solution?
Bethesa, Maryland
Overheard by: uncomfortable cube dweller
User: I don’t want a customer to be able to login and they might guess that their password is “welcome.”
Tech: We can change it to, let’s say, “monkey123.”
User: Well, what if they guess “monkey123”?
4 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
Older IT guy: I live by the rule of thumb: “If the stick's not bigger than your thumb, you can beat 'em with it!” (laughs) Okay, now, go to your sent box…
Sparks, Maryland
Overheard by: Operator
Boss: From now on, people, we’re going to make Perfection our baseline.
The development team laughs.
Developer: Dude, whatever the fuck you’ve been reading, stop it.
1 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Overheard by: Mad William Flint
