Tech

IT dork: It’s like Christmas when you get to open a new server!

Berkeley Street
Boston, Massachusetts

IT guy to IT manager: Nice shoes, are they new?
IT manager: Yeah, but they’re too clean and white. They need to be scuffed up more.
IT guy: You know what they should do? They should make the seven-year old Taiwanese kids who sew these wear them for a few days first.
IT manager: Yeah, that’s perfect. Pre-scuffed shoes. They’d be flopping around in shoes way too big, but at least they’d have shoes for a few days.

Good Hope Road
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

DBA to male co-worker: I want service! I’m coming to you to be serviced!

Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: I thought that belonged in the men’s room…

Internet sweatshop girl: Its getting cold in here!
Internet sweatshop guy: Does it make you want to put on all of your clothes?

Hell’s Kitchen
New York City, New York

IT worker: If you use it a whole bunch of times it will become intuitive.

Madison, Connecticut

IT nerd: So, we’ll move that code to production at 5 AM on Thursday.
Programmer: Is that in the morning?

Mt. Prospect Plaza, Illinois

Overheard by: smeagol

Hardware tech #1: He probably covered the screwdriver in vaseline and lit it on fire.
Hardware tech #2: Actually, it was a woman. I mean, how dangerous can a woman with a screwdriver be?

460 Hillside Street
Needham, Massachusetts

Overheard by: S. Griffin

Manager on phone: Yeah, I broke up with him…Yeah, he was okay…Yeah…Yeah…But he just didn’t scale.

Silicon Valley, California

Overheard by: David