Coworker #1: What is that, you heart monitor or something?
Coworker #2: No, it's Window's Media Player.
Media, Pennsylvania
Coworker #1: What is that, you heart monitor or something?
Coworker #2: No, it's Window's Media Player.
Media, Pennsylvania
Library patron: Can you help me? I don’t remember how to turn the computers on.
Employee: Well, this one’s already on, see? [Wiggles mouse to activate screen.]Library patron: Oh… What about this one? I don’t like that one.
Employee: Well, this one’s off, so I’ll turn it on [presses power button].
Library patron: Ah, so they each have a little trick. What about this one? [Proudly swishes mouse.]Employee, frustrated: No, see, if the green light is off, then you press the button.
Library patron: Whatever you say…
130 Wall Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Waiter, at new copy machine: Which way does this go in: face down or up, sideways or lengthways?…You’re not going to tell me, are you?
Manager: We’ve got plenty of paper over there; keep trying until you get it right.
45 South Illinois Street
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
IT Worker #1: Hey, the system is down.
IT Worker #2: …The whole thing?
500 Eldorado Boulevard
Broomfield, Colorado
Manager: Ok. Since it seems like [Dougie] doesn’t want to be a part of the team and show up for meetings, [Steve], from now on, when you send out meeting requests, make sure the invitation is sent to him personally.
[Steve]: So basically, I should click a few more times to enable this otherwise unacceptable behavior?Manager: Right.
[Steve]: Got it.214 West 39th Street
New York, New York
Male employee: I think simplicity is sexy. We have a lot of information, we just have to massage it a bit… I don't want to have to think about where I have to click, I just want to be able to mindlessly and intuitively click everywhere. Hp.com is a good example, go there.
Female employee, frustrated: I typed in “ho.com.”
Oakland, California
Drafter on phone: Um, ya, give me a second and I can put it up on the screen… (sighs) Oh, there it is… Almost up there… That's better.
Central Point, Oregon
Hotel clerk #1 to another, after seeing tv news report: Can you believe someone left that secret iPhone at a bar?
Hotel clerk #2: Well, not all the stupid people work here.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Jasper
Sales VP on speakerphone to assistant: Can I find a word in an Excel file?
Assistant: Yes, use control + f.
Sales VP: Okay, so control and then hold the f key?
Assistant: Yes.
Sales VP: Oh, okay, that worked!
Manhattan, New York
Old coworker listening to another one use the shredder: I can tell you have great shredding skills.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Overheard by: silently sitting in my cube
