Technology

Boss: You close that deal yet?
Sales guy: No, but I just got a verbal faxed.

60 Main Street
Waltham, Massachusetts

Marketing manager to call center manager: The numbers you provided me on this spreadsheet don't add up.
Call center manager: Numbers only add up in a perfect world.

Sudbury
Ontario
Canadia

Clerk: I got an error message on that email I sent.
Manager: Well, then you aren’t holding your mouth right, are ya?
Clerk: What?

1400 Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska

Director: …so, do you have any ideas why all these clips are showing up as being not on server?
Engineer: Ah, yes, it’s a procurement error. We bought shit.

201 Wood Lane
Shepherd’s Bush, London
UK

Boss: You got hypnotized by the screen saver?
IT guy: No, I’m watching porn. This is the only screen no one else can see.

Exeter
United Kingdom

Client: Wait, so what do you mean I can use my debit card. How does a debit card work? Do you like, just write it in your check registry?
Stylist: Yeah, it’s like a check, only electronic. You have to use your PIN number.
Client: I’ve never seen this before! Wait, I don’t know my PIN number.
Stylist: It’s the same as your ATM number. It’s the same thing.
Client: …This is amazing!

110 East Delaware Place
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: phone girl

Boss on speakerphone: Yes, I need the data charts for the presentation tomorrow, could you e-mail them to me electronically?
Employee: Electronically? Uhhhh, yes, I’ll do it right away.

Houston, Texas

Overheard by: Corporate stooge

Office manager, heating up lunch: “Just add water and microwave for four minutes.” No, that has too many directions.

Detroit, Michigan

Overheard by: Confused

IT guy: Dude, your computer is so messed up! I just don't know what's going on here!
Engineer: I probably should have told you this before, but my computer rests on top of an ancient Indian burial site, so you are probably going to need a priest.

Ladson, South Carolina

Tech support assisting with Excel: Whoa! No, no, no, no! I said I was going to adjust your columns, not kill you!

Trilegiant office
Trumbull, Connecticut

Overheard by: Redfox Alpha