Manager: Hey there… What are you doin?
Support: Just some really ugly updates to [client]’s website
Manager: Ahh, who cares as long as it’s billable.
Support pauses. . .
Manager: It is billable, right?
8840 Commons Boulevard
Twinsburg, Ohio
Manager: Hey there… What are you doin?
Support: Just some really ugly updates to [client]’s website
Manager: Ahh, who cares as long as it’s billable.
Support pauses. . .
Manager: It is billable, right?
8840 Commons Boulevard
Twinsburg, Ohio
Tech guy on phone: If it’s fixed, it’s not working.
South Brunswick, New Jersey
QA: That enhancement doesn’t work, you need to fix it.
Dev: I guess it won’t be in the patch, then.
QA: I didn’t spend all that time testing and documenting it, we need to release it.
Dev: I’m not going to fix it now.
QA: You just said it was going to be in the patch, now you are saying it’s not going to be fixed in this patch but it is in the patch.
Dev: Your Jedi mind tricks will not work on me.
16388 Westwoods Business Park
Ellisville, Missouri
Overheard by: Marc Brooks
Boss to secretary: I love my cellphone charger cuz it has a light on it. That way I know when I unplug it and the light goes out, I'm like saving energy.
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: She's going green
New assistant: Where do we put the paper for the outgoing faxes?
Vancouver
Canadia
Office girl: I mean, you've gotta wonder what happens to old planes. They send 'em to third-world countries.
Boston, Massachusetts
Coworker #1: You have an AOL email address?
Coworker #2: I know…So old-school.
623 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York
Law office secretary: …and who the hell is this MOTO person anyway?
2345 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Tester: Dude, did you see this? There’s a button in the software that says “Fuck Off.”
Designer: So?…That’s a feature. Did you press it?
Tester: Yeah…it just went away.
Designer: And did it make you feel better?
Tester: Strangely, yeah. Yeah, it did.
Designer: See?
211 Van Buren Street
Nashville, Indiana
Overheard by: Scott
Copy Editor: Hi, [Marco]. You just missed the porn.
Art Director: What?
Copy Editor: I’m serious. There was porn but I just deleted it. Spam. Usually they take out the pictures…
Art Director: Why didn’t I get the porn?
6100 Center Drive
Los Angeles, California