Technology

Smoke breaker on cell: By the way, I just 86-ed you from Poker-Game dot net*… Yeah, you can’t log on Poker-Game anymore.

2001 Lind Avebue SW
Renton, Washington

Co-worker #1 on intercom: [Renee], you have a call on line one.
Co-worker #2 on intercom: [Brenda], there is a call on line 3 for you.
Boss on intercom: All right, people. We have to stop using this all-over-the-building page thing for no good reason.

1710 Roy Acuff Place
Nashville, Tennessee

Computer jockey: What is fisting? And what do you think it means when a man is emailing you pictures of naked boys?

25 West 4th Street
New York, NY

Boss: Damn it! My camera is dead again!
Receptionist: Didn’t you just replace those batteries a couple of days ago?
Boss: Yes.
Sales: Maybe you’re out of megapixels.

1003 Distribution Drive
Columbus, Ohio

A customer is on speakerphone.

Customer: Which one is the spacebar?
Co-worker: How can you not know where the spacebar is?
Customer: I’m not good with computers.
Co-worker: But you’ve used a typewriter before, haven’t you?
Customer: Yeah, so?

460 Hillside Avenue
Needham, Massachusetts

Overheard by: S. Griffin

Programmer #1: Can you kill the parent without killing the child nodes?
Programmer #2: I don’t think so.
Sales guy: It’s always good to get rid of the witnesses.

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: sales guy’s neighbor

Employee #1 calling from adjacent building: Hey, you guys are using the wrong kind of paper in the fax machine.
Employee #2: What?
Employee #1: You’re using the wrong paper in the fax machine. Our faxes are coming out all smeary over here.
Employee #2: Oh, okay. Sorry.

Kramer Drive
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania

Sales guy #1: … or you know it could send to your POP3.
Sales guy #2: Don’t pretend like you know what you’re talking about.
Sales guy #1: At least I had a term. Where’s your term, motherfucker?!

Bonner Springs, Kansas

Co-worker #1: I just got a brand new internet!
Co-worker #2: A new internet? Is that possible?
Co-worker #1: Yeah! Looks totally different!

8100 Tyler Boulevard
Mentor, Ohio

Overheard by: Dana

Graphics guy: What format are these files?
Boss: They’re from the guy next door.
Graphics guy: Okay, but what kind of files are these supposed to be? There’s no extensions so I can’t open them in anything unless I rename them all and just guess the extension until I get it right.
Boss: Can you open them and check?

2245 Royal Windsor Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Bob