Tech People

Boss on phone with IT: How do I see my future emails?

1246 Princeton Street
Akron, Ohio

Database administrator #1: You can either spend half a day showing them how to do it and another three weeks constantly answering questions, or you can just take half an hour and write the code for them.
Database administrator #2: Well, we should teach them how to fish instead of just feeding them every day!
Database administrator #1: You can teach them how to fish, but they still won’t know how to write code.

880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, Florida

Customer rep on phone: No, ma’am. I’m sorry but I can’t come to your room and fix your equipment….because I’m not on the third floor. I’m in Denver and you’re in San Francisco.

11400 Westmoor
Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: losing patience

Office-wide voicemail from IT person: Attention all H Street associates. The network will be down beginning at 10am…10pm…shit! [Hangs up]

1717 H Street NW
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Hamshank Houghmagandie

IT guy sneezes several times.

IT guy: I think I’m allergic to the flowers on this screen.
Nearby blonde: Really? You can change the screen saver if you want.

Paddington Street, Paddington
Sydney, Australia

Overheard by: Jane Kenny

Computer tech: how often you clean your hard drive?
Customer: Once in a while, but I always use Windex.

27 Scotch Road
Trenton, New Jersey

Overheard by: chris doan

SysAdmin: What users do you want me to move to the Gig Harbor office?
User on speaker: [Melinda] from Kirkland.
SysAdmin: I show [Melinda] as being in Reno.
User on speaker: Oh, maybe that’s her sister.
SysAdmin: Her sister is also named [Melinda]?…Hello?
User on speaker: Can I call you back on that?

8655 South Eastern Avenue
Las Vegas, Nevada

CTO: My interview article is in USA Today!
Programer: Can you send me the link? Never mind, I’ll just Google “USA Today”.

600 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, California

CSR: Did you look at the fax machine?
Tech: Yes, it’s gorgeous!

203 Floral Vale Boulevard
Yardley, Pennsylvania

IT: My vibrator doesn’t work; I think it’s worn out…On my phone! On my phone! The vibrate function on my phone doesn’t work! Oh, god.

140 Research Boulevard
Madison, Alabama

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