General Manager: I have an email problem, I need you to answer a question…Do I have to use all lowercase Ls here? Can’t I use 1s? They look like 1s.
IT: No! You have to use Ls! That is how e-mail works! It’s an address that you have to get right!
General Manager: It’s hard to tell if it is an L or a 1.
IT: Well yes, but from context clues, the email says, “Little Girl.”
General Manager: Well you know what they say about assuming. Makes an ass…you…me.
13601 FM 529 Road
Houston, Texas
IT staff to engineer on phone: If you follow the document I sent you, you will be able to complete the web page.
Engineer: I can't read.
Silicon Valley, California
IT guy: I'm not sure how we can figure out what happened.
IT manager: Well, I guess the only thing you can do is grab the batch.
IT secretary, eavesdropping: I think I got in trouble for that in high school.
IT manager: For what?
IT secretary: For grabbing a batch.
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: i'm sure she did
IT person: Usually the email address is just the first initial, then the employee’s last name.
Salesguy: Oh, okay…What’s John Smith’s last name again?
Columbia, South Carolina
Computer tech, trying to remove picture of very well endowed naked man off computer: Well, I don't know how to get him off.
Vermont
Analyst to lackey: I don't think it makes any sense to run around playing “battleship” with analysts' Outlook calendars.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rachael
Programmer, in otherwise quiet office: Wait, what? How is that “snickerdoodle” isn't in my phone's T9?
Mesa, Arizona
Overheard by: Chris Cardinal
Developer: And so I told the client that she can add cats till…the cats come home. And then I'm done with her. Because there's no fucking way I'm adding any more cats to this printer cartridge selling website.
Mesa, Arizona
Overheard by: Chris Cardinal
Copier Technician: Sir, your software isn’t compatible with this machine. It’s outdated.
Offie Manager: Well, the sales guy promised it would work.
Copier Technician: Did you try it out before you bought it?
Office Manager: No, I trusted the sales guy that it would do what he said it would do.
Copier Technician: Well, this isn’t the first time you’ve dealt with a sales person, is it? When I make a significant purchase, I try it before I sign the contract.
Office Manager: How you ever going to get married, son?
Copier Technician: Sorry?
Office Manager: I said how you ever going to get married?
Copier Technician: I am married, sir.
Office Manager: Well, did you try out your wife before you got married?
Copier Technician: What?
310 Dorla Court
Zephyr Cove, Nevada
Peon: Hey, I can't look at our webpage without the browser crashing.
IT manager: Which browser?
Peon: Ff 4.
IT manager: What?
Peon: Firefox 4.
IT manager: What's a Firefox?
Peon: Uh, let's pretend I said IE.
South Morang
Australia
