Technology

User: I don’t want a customer to be able to login and they might guess that their password is “welcome.”
Tech: We can change it to, let’s say, “monkey123.”
User: Well, what if they guess “monkey123”?

4 Columbus Circle
New York, NY

Call leader: Whoever has your phone on hold, please take us off hold. We can hear the music.

151 Major Reynolds Place
Knoxville, Tennessee

Overheard by: mba

Manager: Why are you guys just sitting there? What’s going on?
Underling: I’m helping her with her mouse. It looks like her computer froze.
Manager: Well, you shouldn’t let it get so cold.

8484 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

GM: How were you days off?
Supervisor: Pretty good. Did some hiking.
GM: How was the conference?
Supervisor: What conference?
GM: I e-mailed you Wednesday about the loss prevention meeting on Thursday morning. I know it was short notice.
Supervisor: Thursday was my day off. Wednesday was my day off. I wasn’t here to check my e-mails.
GM: So you didn’t go to the mandatory meeting?
Supervisor: Um.
GM: You have to check your e-mail every day. No excuses.
Supervisor: I wasn’t here to check my e-mail.
GM: No excuses.

687 12th Street
Gresham, Oregon

Overheard by: I love 50 e-mails a day

Boss to computer: Don't fuck with me! No fucky fucky!

Downtown Brooklyn, New York

Overheard by: SJ

Coworker, examining scratched up phone: Life is rough in my pocket.

Vancouver
Canadia

IT manager on phone: You’re right, ma’am. Yes, that is entirely our fault. We should have explained that you’ll need to have a computer to teach a course online.

Denver Tech Center
Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: rev_matt

Female manager to male manager as screensaver turns on during presentation: You need to jiggle your thing.

New York, New York

Overheard by: i LOVE my job

Cube dweller: Wow, look what I learned today!
Senior VP: What?
Cube dweller: I made a pulldown list in Excel!
Senior VP: So you have a lot of free time?…If you have free time, you need to see me right away. I told you I have projects for you.

101 California Street
San Francisco, California

IT #1: I asked him if he was in the United States.
IT #2: I tell people if you want to buy a computer, call their support line. If you can’t stand the accent, don’t buy that computer.

1100 SW 6th Avenue
Portland, Oregon