Technology

Guy #1: I saw a grammatical error on overheardintheoffice.com, but I was too lazy to email them and point it out.
Guy #2: You are an idiot.

1st Street & Ninth Avenue
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Girl: Yeah, I’m trying to apply for chemical engineering, but when I go to fill out the online application, it says that it’s closed, but then it says that the deadline isn’t until March 1st!
Student worker: It’s April…
Clueless co-ed: But..oh…wait…January…February…March…Oh! Oh, so, like, March is before April?

1 University Station
Austin, Texas

Overheard by: m.kyti

Agent: How do I reset the copier?
Assistant: Press the Reset button.
Agent: Which one is the Reset button?
Assistant: The big yellow one labeled “Reset”.
Agent: Oh.

16501 Ventura Boulevard
Encino, California

IT guy: So my coworker gave you your fixed laptop back?
Finance guy: Yeah. Well, really, I looked into his office and saw it sitting on a desk, and I ducked in and took it. So, you know, same thing.

2000 Spring Road
Oak Brook, Illinois

Overheard by: George L.

Coworker #1: What’s with the Google logo today?
Coworker #2: It’s probably supposed to be symbolic of Terry Schiavo dehydrating or something.

1001 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Employee #1: Shit!
Employee #2: What?
Employee #1: I told you how I had eleven thousand spam messages in my other email address?
Employee #2: No, I didn’t knew that.
Employee #1: So I did as [Filippo] said, I grabbed them from within Yahoo! mail, figuring out it would throw the spam away automatically.
Employee #2: Really.
Employee #1: Apparently it doesn’t do that for another email account. Shit. Now I screwed my Yahoo! mail too. I can’t believe it. I’ll have to manually check eleven thousand messages as spam on this precious address. I am going to kill myself.
Employee #2: Wait, you have to read eleven thousand messages? Who send you that?

Translated from the Italian.

Viale Bianca Maria 6
Milan, Italy

Manager: Aw, did you bleed on my computer?
Tech: No, but a bird shit on it.

50 Vision Blvd
East Providence, Rhode Island

Big Shot: Well, damn, the printer really is low on toner. I’m not gonna strain my eyes to read this junk. Now I have to reprint the whole document. Guess that’s my reward for trying to take work home over the weekend!
Peon: So, do you want me to recycle the faded pages?
Big Shot: What? No, just toss it.

3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia

Senior Partner: How come my computer’s not working?
Techie: It seems your hard drive crashed.
Senior Partner: That’s not possible; I don’t visit porn sites or any drug suppliers.

527 E. 78th Street
New York, NY

In respose to several of our wholesale customers reporting strong on-line sales in December; Boss: We do all the work and they make all the money? We have a website too and it’s time we started reminding these people of that! We need to be making a hell of a lot more money areound here than we are now. Time to start firing a few of these so-called “Top Customers”. That’ll fucking show ’em who’s boss!

800 Boylston Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts