Technology

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3811 O’Hara Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frustrated employee: I’m gonna build a robot named Microchip, and it’s going to look like a microchip and it’s going to kill people.

1025 Eldorado Boulevard
Broomfield, Colorado

Overheard by: D

Tech: Are you all set on the pdf server now?
Client: Yes, I think so. Is it supposed to be so fugging slow uploading pdfs onto the ftp site?
Tech: Yup! That’s a feature.
Client: Neat. Thanks.

111 South 1st Avenue
Wausau, Wisconsin

Tech: I am a guacamole of knowledge into which you may dip the nacho of need.

105 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

Boss looking at her new laptop: There are too many keys.

Bank
New York

Overheard by: Tjay

Answering machine: You have more than one hundred saved messages.

7 Times Square
New York, NY

Overheard by: Yo

PA: Enema on my laptop once, shame on you. Enema on my laptop twice, shame on me.

San Francisco, California

Professor #1: What's going on out there?
Professor #2: It's either a gang fight or a game of Red Rover.

College
West Virginia

Overheard by: Professor 3

Teacher: Fix the photocopier, it’s not working.
Secretary: What did you do to it?
Teacher: Nothing, it’s just jammed, unjam it.
Secretary: Oh my god, what is that smell…what did you do?
Teacher: Nothing.
Secretary: Did you put transparencies in here? Oh my god, you did! Dude! You can’t do that! They’ll melt! This is a colour photocopier.
Teacher: I wanted colour transparencies.
Secretary: You are so demoted to mimeograph!

557 Church Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia

Worker #1 referring to a computer file titled as her name: Are you in me?
Worker #2: Yeah, I'm in you.

Norristown, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: a little small