1PM Cyber Flirting

Employee #1: How many innings are in a baseball game? Eight? Ten?
Employee #2: Are you serious?
Employee #1: Yeah. C’mon, how many?
Employee #2: Eight. Why do you want to know?
Employee #1: I’m talking to this girl and I just told her she’s struck out at the bottom of the ninth, and then I wrote, “even though there’s only eight innings in baseball.” Ha ha.
Employee #2: Did you send the instant message?
Employee #1: Yeah.
Employee #2: There’s nine innings in baseball.

215 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, Connecticut

Overheard by: trying to contain laughter

Posted on June 5, 2025
Connecticut, Coworkers, General Idiocy, Technology

10AM Control Room

Database administrator #1: You can either spend half a day showing them how to do it and another three weeks constantly answering questions, or you can just take half an hour and write the code for them.
Database administrator #2: Well, we should teach them how to fish instead of just feeding them every day!
Database administrator #1: You can teach them how to fish, but they still won’t know how to write code.

880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, Florida

Posted on June 2, 2025
Advice, Comebacks, Coworkers, Florida, Philosophy, Tech People, Technology

9AM Back to Work

Office-wide voicemail from IT person: Attention all H Street associates. The network will be down beginning at 10am…10pm…shit! [Hangs up]

1717 H Street NW
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Hamshank Houghmagandie

Posted on May 20, 2025
Insults, Tech People, Technology, Time Management, Washington DC

5PM That’s a Wrap

Guy on phone: Why didn’t you tell me you didn’t get the fax?
Pause
Guy on phone: Well I specifically wrote on the fax cover sheet, “If you don’t get this, call me.”

265 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: Ray Del Savio