Tech People

Systems administrator: No, it isn’t a flowchart, it’s a chart that just happens to flow.

Aberdeen
Scotland
United Kingdom

Overheard by: Auditor in the corner

.Net developer, finishing a presentation: … And that’s my presentation on .Net custom controls. Any questions about the toggle reader or list controls?
Java developer, bursting at the seams: So it turns out my frat brothers inadvertently stole a human corpse!

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Technical lead: See, I can’t do anything here in Version Three.
System admin: That’s because you’re not connected to the universe.
Technical lead: But the copy of the good universe didn’t point to us!
System admin: What universe are you guys operating in?
IT intern: Depends on what we’re smoking.

12900 Worldgate Drive
Herndon, Virginia

Overheard by: IT Consulting Stooge #4769

Electronics employee on phone: You’re supposed to call 911 in case of emergencies, not Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart Supercenter
Oakland, California

Overheard by: Mike

IT guy: So, are you using straight AutoCAD?
Employee: As opposed to the homosexual one?

41 East 11th Street
New York, New York

Overheard by: nex0s

IT guy #1: Yeah, it’s my grandmother’s one hundredth birthday next March.
IT guy #2: Wow, really?
IT guy #1: Yup. I’m going to send her a strip-o-gram.

7th street and 7th Avenue
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia

Tech, watching movie trailer online: Man, that’s delicious. It’s like drinking Jesus’s sperm.

Hyde Park
Austin, Texas

Worker: Is the mailer-daemon a real person?
Tech: Really?

11766 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

IT nerd to another: Yeah, it was just a banana hammock, but I never did much with it besides keep sunflower seeds in it and stuff.

Park Lane and Highway 75
Dallas, Texas

Overheard by: cherry

Programmer: Does anyone want a free, almost clean keyboard?
Tech support peon: Not until you tell us what you just ‘almost cleaned’ off of it.
Programmer: Jeff*.
Tech support peon: Uhhh, no thanks.

Islington, London
England