Technology

Businesslady: Where the hell is my charger, did I leave it at the office? I thought I put it in, but…Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to talk to myself.
TSA lady: Well, that’s OK, Sugar. Sometimes we have to talk to ourselves because we’re the only ones who can understand.

Sky Harbor Airport
Phoenix, Arizona

Project Manager: I can only imagine what has been coming in my box…My email box.

1137 North 26th Street
Sheboygan, Wisconsion

Overheard by: Chris O’Brien

Developer #1: We’ve never run the application in a clustered environment.
Developer #2: Yeah, but we’ve run it in a cluster-fucked environment.

Canal Park
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Internet hipster: It's a meme of a meme, so it's meta.
Boss: What?!

Fontana, California

Law Firm Partner: How do you log on to our website?
Secretary: We don’t have a website.
Law Firm Partner: Can make one up real quick? There’s a girl who’s trying to sell us a website and I told her we already have one.

329 18th Street
Rock Island, Illinois

Co-worker #1: So they made me change my password. The old one was really cool. “Sloth,” you know, like the animal.
Co-worker #2: There’s no such animal as a sloth. I think sloth is supposed to be like a sin or something.

1697 Broadway
New York, NY

Email: Let's welcome Joe Smith to the company. He will report to Bill Scott.
Copywriter #1: I find it distressing when I don't recognize the names of the supervisors. Are you sure Mr. Scott isn't really a robot?
Copywriter #2: Mr. Scott has been with this organization for at least three years. He is not a robot…or if he is, they did a damn good job making him look human.
Copywriter #3: Sounds like something a fembot would say.

Wausau, Wisconsin

Office lady to another: And that's why I think god created technology.

Puyallup, Washington

Cube rat #1: You’ve got to be shitting me… My grandma is trying to add me on MySpace.
Cube rat #2: That’s sort of sweet.
Cube rat #1: I’m her second friend. I didn’t know she knew what a computer was…
Cube rat #2: Dude, pop her comment cherry!

1932 Wildcat Canyon Road
San Diego, California

Office girl: So, are you psyching yourself up to play the show tonight?
Office guy: Um, if by ‘psyching’ you mean ‘writing code,’ then yes, I am.

San Francisco, California

Overheard by: Naomi