Tech Lead: Our requirements are in terms of bells and whistles at this point, not actual business functionality.
1370 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri
Overheard by: Jonathan Willis
Tech Lead: Our requirements are in terms of bells and whistles at this point, not actual business functionality.
1370 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri
Overheard by: Jonathan Willis
Girl tech: We are blocking emails to our customers with the word disbursement in it because of “semen”.
Head tech dude: Semen?
Guy tech #1: Are you sure semen isn’t somewhere else?
Guy tech #2: Semen? Like the nasty stuff?
Head tech dude: We’ll have to adjust the filter, we are blocking reimbursement too.
Girl tech: Jeez, this blocking could cause all sorts of problems.
9001 Shelbyville Road
Louisville, Kentucky
Overheard by: Andy Goss
Boss: I need you to email this to [Kevin].
Assistant: No problem, I have the electronic version right here. I’ll email it out in a sec.
Boss: Great…Oh, and make sure my notes don’t show up when you send it out.
Assistant: Your notes?
Boss: Yeah, the notes I wrote there in the margins.
Assistant: Um, don’t worry. They won’t.
Boss: Great, thanks.
Assistant: Just fucking retire already…Jesus!
300 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Software Engineer: I’ll like, you know, just pseudocode out this part in the design.
8614 Westwood Center Drive
Vienna, Virginia
Coworker, testing e-mails: I got a funky one in my junk!
Corporate Park Drive
Herndon, Virginia
Partner: I guess just like people watch tv electronically, one day they'll figure out how to send mail electronically.
Brooklyn, New York
Tech guy: It will take Zeus and all his pissed off gods going in and throwing all sorts of thunderbolts to straighten this out.
1 Dell Way
Round Rock, Texas
Associate: Hey, can you come look at my pooter?
Manager: Your what?
Associate: What? … What? Come on, my computer!
Mass Street
Lawrence, Kansas
Overheard by: tara
Old professor: My computer is so old! At least three people had it before me. Everything I write gets attributed to some secretary who left years ago. (pause) Maybe it's not a bad thing, considering the quality of what I write…
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: the IT guy
CSR, looking out of office window at noisy construction outside: Listen. It's the sound of machines becoming self-aware.
Manhattan, New York
