Software developer, after running a successful test: Boo-yah! I’m not dumb! I may not know what 12 minus 5 is, but I’m not dumb! Who cares if I can’t add?
Suburb
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Software developer, after running a successful test: Boo-yah! I’m not dumb! I may not know what 12 minus 5 is, but I’m not dumb! Who cares if I can’t add?
Suburb
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Operator: See that subject line? How am I supposed to know that that means?
Perturbed developer: You can open it up and read the e-mail.
Operator: Then I'd have to open multiple e-mails.
Perturbed developer: Yes, you can do that. You can open multiple e-mails.
Campus Office
St. Louis, Missouri
Guy from server management, analyzing coworker's love life: You're like a lion cub…you don't want to bite yet.
IBM Argentina
Overheard by: Sullivan
Worker on phone: Hi, Amy*, this is Emily* in editorial. Are you new back there?
IT chick: Yeah.
Worker: Okay, well, I’m having a problem with my phone. I just got a new phone with a caller ID screen on it, but when I get calls the screen is blank. Is there some button I have to push, or…?
IT chick: Well, why don’t you try unplugging the phone and then plugging it back in. I’ll stay on the line.
Worker: Um…
120 West 1st Avenue
Mesa, Arizona
Overheard by: Big Ideas
CSR: I just took a look at the survey and noticed that at the very beginning it says “this survey is design”. Shouldn’t that say
“designed”?
IT: Probably…I cut and pasted.
CSR: Can it be changed?
IT: No, I etched that survey directly into your screen. To change it we would have to buy you a new monitor.
1 Woodland Hill Drive
Babson Park, Massachusetts
IT guy: I don’t know about your god, but my god says it’s okay.
Stamford, Connecticut
Programmer #1: Do you watch Maggie and the Ferocious Beast?
Programmer #2: [Silence.]Programmer #1: Well, Hamilton is the pig. I don’t know his last name, but he’s the pig in the show.
Programmer #2: [Silence.]
100 Larrabee Road
Westbrook, Maine
IT guy: Hey, Kelly* just showed me her slingbox.
Boss: Reeeally?
It guy: Yeah. It works fine and everything, but I wouldn’t pay for it.
Boss: If you get her drunk she’ll give it to you for free!
It guy: Ohhh… I think we’re talking about different things…
Boss: Reeeally?
Bay Area, California
Overheard by: Would get sick of it anyway…
IT guy: I feel for teachers, because it’s not like the good old days when you could take kids under the stairwell and pummel them.
Bush Lake Road
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overheard by: just trying to finish the day
Technician: We don’t make mistakes. We may create new opportunities and challenges, but we don’t make mistakes.
645 Paper Mill Road
Newark, Delaware
