Dev #1: Why would we ever deny the faculty access to Moodle?
Dev #2: We might have always cut the ends off a ham because our mom taught us to.
Dev #1: …
1600 Clarkson Road
Chesterfield, Missouri
Dev #1: Why would we ever deny the faculty access to Moodle?
Dev #2: We might have always cut the ends off a ham because our mom taught us to.
Dev #1: …
1600 Clarkson Road
Chesterfield, Missouri
Suit #1: We have to make sure they get laid in our system.
Suit #2 (concentrating): Right…
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: …and what exactly would that system be, now?
Employee, to boss : These internet blocks suck. I just got kicked off for trying to google whether or not Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite!
Boss : Well, try to remember to look it up when you get home.
Providence, Rhode Island
Perky female temp, walking over to supervisor's cubicle: Hey, I heard we got a new fax machine! Awesome!
Female supervisor: Yeah, it's pretty exciting. They're setting it up right now.
Male supervisor: There seems to be some erotic fascination with the new fax machine. Everyone's over there crowded around it.
(awkward silence)
Perky female temp: I'm gonna go look at it right now!
Female supervisor: Yeah, me too!
Bloomington, Minnesota
Overheard by: I'm pretty sure he meant
Customer: How powerful is that pressure washer?
Salesman: I’m not sure… Uh… It’s powerful enough to take your toes off…
Honolulu, Hawaii
Boss at computer: So, when you say “inbox”… What exactly do you mean by that?
Manhattan, New York
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Team Overheard
Engineer: Thing about this global warming is that it's all about where the water is. You have a big enough pipe and you can pump it in the desert, where it's needed…
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Web guy: I think it'd be better to just give them some instructions, like, “click this, then that, and…”
Communications guy, interrupting: Reporters are lazy and dumb. And that's being charitable.
Manhattan, New York
Engineer #1: You don’t understand…the program’s got unresolved
symbols that won’t work.
Engineer#2: Yeah, I got 2 unresolved symbols for you right here.
8000 West Sunrise Boulevard
Plantation, Florida
