Distressed older coworker: I don't get it. I unplugged my computer last night and I'm still getting e-mails. I don't know what I have to do to stop them.
Pensacola, Florida
Distressed older coworker: I don't get it. I unplugged my computer last night and I'm still getting e-mails. I don't know what I have to do to stop them.
Pensacola, Florida
Attorney #1: Does anyone know why I can’t access my computer’s S drive?
Attorney #2: Oh, I know the problem. It’s an operator error!
Attorney #1: What does that mean?
Madera, California
Overheard by: Shawn
Coworker viewing a Myspace page: Jeff Buckley’s online! He’s dead, how is he doing this?
Frances Avenue
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Training instructor: You should not upgrade the software right when a patch comes out. Sometimes it may have bugs.
Student: So, it’s like when you take a drug, sometimes it can have side effects like—
Training instructor: Yeah, but let’s keep the discussion focused on software.
Student: —Throwing up, vomiting…
Training instructor: Uh, yeah.
Madison, Alabama
Sales assistant: What are you doing?
QC guy: Taking a nap.
Sales assistant: You are precariously close to your CPU.
QC guy: What? What is that, a part of my body?
Sales assistant: Right. Don’t call me when you break that computer again.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Girl #1: Ummm, we need to make copies, and we don’t want to spend a lot of money.
Student worker: The copier over there is 10 cents, same as everywhere on campus.
Girl #1: That’s so expensive!
Student worker: You could also scan the papers and print them out. That’s free.
Girl #1: What do you mean?
Student worker: Ummm, you can put them on the scanner, hit ‘Scan,’ and then when they pop up, hit ‘Print.’
Girl #1: I don’t know about this whole scanning thing — it sounds really complicated.
Girl #2: But that sounds better than making copies. I mean, we only need 12, and I don’t want to spend 12 dollars.
Campus library, Bemidji State University
Bemidji, Minnesota
Computer guy #1: I can’t see the hard drive on this network.
Computer guy #2: Well, the problem is that the disk isn’t mounted. First you have to mount Claire*.
Claire: Hey!
Computer guy #2: Claire is the name of the office hard drive.
701 South Mount Vernon Avenue
San Bernardino, California
Overheard by: Amused
Finance manager: Every time an e-mail outage occurs I'm working on something, and I have to start over. I need you to let me know an hour or so ahead of time next time the system is going to crash.
IT guy: Ummmmm…
Auburn, Indiana
Overheard by: dru
Coworker #1, in copier room: That copier needs some KY.
Coworker #2: (hysterical laughing)
Coworker #1: Oh, no! I meant WD-40. I always do that!
Richmond, Virginia
Assistant: Hey, I couldn’t figure out how to put it into Word from Excel. So here you go.
Boss: You just cut and paste it.
Assistant: But you can’t do that from Excel to Word, it won’t let you.
Boss: Yes, you can, just right-click and copy and paste it.
Assistant: Trust me, I just spent the whole morning trying to, it’s a locked document.
Boss: OK, 1947 called, and they want their technology ability back. What’s wrong with you? Hey, who hired you again?
300 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Cam
