Shipping Manager: I can’t hear anything on my phone whenever I make or receive a call. Can you check it out for me?
IT Director: Did you get your hearing checked?
4055 Casilio Parkway
Clarence, New York
Shipping Manager: I can’t hear anything on my phone whenever I make or receive a call. Can you check it out for me?
IT Director: Did you get your hearing checked?
4055 Casilio Parkway
Clarence, New York
Receptionist: Every couple weeks or so I have to come back here and molest the printer paper.
Seattle, Washington
Reporter #1: Did I just hear that someone got bit by a cow on the scanner?
Reporter #2: It’s possible. Some of them have really bad attitudes.
101 Avenue A
Conroe, Texas
Overheard by: Catherine
Sales: What was the the address again? WW..?
Manager: …W?
Sales: Yeah that’s it, that sounds right. WWW.
160 McClaren Road
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
User: We want a tutorial on the website’s front page so we know how to use the website.
Tech: Well, from the front page, you just click on “Help”…
User: Yes, but we want the instructions themselves on the front page.
Tech: I’m sorry, no. The user’s only allowed to be so stupid here. They can click on the help button.
User: Oh, okay!
695 Palmer Drive
Raleigh, North Carolina
Disgruntled programmer: I would cut the head off a chicken right now and perform a Santeria ritual in order to get this program to work!
Newtown, Pennsylvania
IT drone to coworker: They're being invaded by blackberries, papayas and pygmy goats.
Coworker: Wow, that's rough. I've heard that that's a problem.
IT drone: Yeah, the goats especially.
Austin, Texas
Tech support rep: …the accelerator card. No, the one connected to your array. OK, uplug that.
Pause
Tech support rep: OK, are you grounded?
Pause
Tech support rep: OK, gently pull it from the slot.
Pause
Tech support rep: Now lick it.
Pause, snickering, then slight panic.
Tech support rep: No sir. I was just kidding.
290 Donald Lynch Blvd.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Overheard by: James McCabe
Exec: I'm having problems receiving e-mail.
IT guy: It's the IMAP you are using. It's not compatible with the settings that you have in your program.
Exec: This is unacceptable. I want you to call IMAP and get this resolved immediately!
IT guy: I can't.
Exec: Why can't you do this?
IT guy: Because IMAP is out to lunch with HTTP.
Los Angeles, California
Receptionist: Do you have any extra wireless cords?
2777 Crystal Drive
Arlington, Virginia
