Boss on phone with tech support: Wait… What is a colon? (pause) The dot and the squiggle line or the dot and the dot? (pause) Hello? Are you listening to me? (pause) No, I'm not stupid, I'm German.
Ocala, Florida
Overheard by: Mystique
Boss on phone with tech support: Wait… What is a colon? (pause) The dot and the squiggle line or the dot and the dot? (pause) Hello? Are you listening to me? (pause) No, I'm not stupid, I'm German.
Ocala, Florida
Overheard by: Mystique
Tech guy #1: You don't see a problem using a URL shortener to shorten a URL that is shorter than the shortened URL?
Tech guy #2: No!
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: really short URL
Tech guy: I do have an example dump, if you want to look at it.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Office worker: The only way you can print is from the report?
System support person, on speakerphone: Yeah, we're trying to fix that.
Office worker: Wait! You can print from the report?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Why do I work here?
Tech: Am I good to go?
Supervisor: Yeah, just make sure next time you return your work truck, it doesn't smell like Bob Marley farted in it.
Millbrae, California
Female boss at IT meeting: What were you doing at lunch that made you so sweaty?
Male developer #1: Just washing my wife's car.
Male developer #2: So, did you have a good time “washing your wife's car?”
(everyone laughs)
Female boss: You can wash my car anytime you want.
Male developer #1: Uh… okay.
Female boss: What?
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Technology director: No, that's “u,” as in “eunuch.”
Columbia, South Carolina
Woman to tech support: So I came in this morning and I couldn't get it up.
Virgin Islands
IT guy #1: Why are they in this order?
IT guy #2: It's alphabetical.
IT guy #1: No, it's not.
IT guy #2: How do you figure?
IT guy #1: S before q.
IT guy #2: Come again?
IT guy #1: You know… S, t, q, v, w, x, y, z. (pause) Wait a minute…
Niles, Illinois
Overheard by: Mosh
IT manager: Oh my god, look! They gave her panties!
Network admin: Look, they gave him panties too!
IT manager: No way! (picks up Star Trek barbie to check)
Tacoma, Washington
