Tech People

Guy: Facedown in cement… it just doesn’t do you any good.

Applied Physics Lab
Maryland

Overheard by: scared

Techie guy #1: You know how my friends Jason and Mike rode their bikes to Mexico and then to Costa Rica to play poker?
Techie guy #2: Yeah.
Techie guy #1: Well, Mike’s living with this girl he met in Mexico.
Techie guy #2: Is that safe?

11000 Regency Parkway
Cary, North Carolina

CSR on speakerphone: Hey, when am I going to get my email fixed? I have things that I need to send out to clients.
IT guy: Oh, yeah, we sent you an email requesting some more information. We need you to send that email back before we can fix your issue…Hello? Are you sending that email?

CSR disconnects the call.

CSR: I’m going on break now.

1616 27th Avenue NE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

IT nerd #1: Well, it’s kinda like when you are on shrooms.
IT nerd #2: Um…
IT nerd #1: Okay, well, same thing as LSD.
IT nerd #2: I have never tried that either.
IT nerd #1: Peyote?
IT nerd #2: No…
IT nerd #1: Mescaline?
IT nerd #2: I have never tried illegal drugs.
IT nerd #1: Okay, well, it’s kinda like quickly drinking 8 or 9 bottles of NyQuil.
IT nerd #2: Oooohhh, okay. That I’ve done. Now I understand.

Elevator
2-3-14 Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo, Japan

Overheard by: Brian Milvid

Suit: Help desk? My computer went down on me.
Tech support: Please hold on. [Places suit on speaker phone] Can you repeat that?
Suit: My computer went down on me!
Tech support, with entire support team laughing in the background: So, what’s the problem?

3 2nd Street
Jersey City, New Jersey

Overheard by: Hobo Whisperer

Deputy: There was a wreck this weekend where a guy hit a tree at 60 miles per hour. Ripped off the right side of his head. You could actually see inside his skull. We never could find his brain, though.
Project manager: Did it kill him?
IT dude: Nope, he is walking around, managing projects.

US Highway 69/75
Oklahoma

Overheard by: Firewall

Old-man employee: I am having problems with e-mail.
IT guy: What’s wrong?
Old-man employee: I have got thousands of e-mails in my inbox and cannot send anything out ’cause I think the virus that is causing me to get all these e-mails is going to be spread to others.
IT guy: You don’t have a virus.
Old-man employee: But I have thousands of e-mails. But I guess they are beautiful to watch.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Overheard by: Alyn

I.T. desk guy: Can I help you?
Annoyed studentess: Is this where you’re supposed to go to change your grades?
I.T. desk guy: Afraid not. You’ll want to try Professor Lucifer. He’s in office 666.
Annoyed studentess: Oh, okay. So that’s on the sixth floor?

Aderhold Center, Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: Iain M.

Customer: What country are you from?
Tech: I’m from England, ma’am.
Customer: Oh. Did you know Princess Diana?
Tech: No, sorry. I’m afraid I didn’t.
Customer: What about Paul McCartney?

Circuit City
Peoria, Illinois

Overheard by: Chris

Tech #1: Did you see this consumer complaint? “Your cereal gave me herpes and AIDS.” I guess we’re giving out AIDS as a special promotion.
Tech #2: We’re putting blood in the product now?
Tech #1: Knowing this place, more likely it’s semen.

901 East Whitmore
Modesto, California

Overheard by: Changing my breakfast plans