Co-worker #1: We just had a premature install.
Co-worker #2: I hear lots of guys have that problem. Hell, [Alex] can’t even finish an install.
26 Century Boulevard
Nashville, Tennessee
Co-worker #1: We just had a premature install.
Co-worker #2: I hear lots of guys have that problem. Hell, [Alex] can’t even finish an install.
26 Century Boulevard
Nashville, Tennessee
Manager: It’s just that I don’t want any of those old, white computers. The only good ones are black nowadays.
Engineer: That sounds pretty racist…
Manager: Well, I don’t care.
41000 Vincenti Court
Novi, Michigan
Overheard by: Stefan Bankowski
IT guy: Do you have a license to install Photoshop?
Employee: You need a license?
IT guy: Yeah.
Employee: It’s not that hard to install, you just double click on the icon.
IT guy: You don’t understand.
Employee: Yeah I do, I’m just fucking with you. Jokes are funny.
2 W. 2nd Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Marketing exec: If we didn’t have to spend so much time telling you our requirements, you could be done with the code already!
228 East 86th Street
New York, NY
Tester: Maybe LA can also help test sound for me.
Co-worker: …and update my test suites…and knit me sweaters.
Tester: Now that’s not exactly company related.
Co-worker: Sweaters are great company.
209 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood City, California
Help desk manager: Hey, do you have that power supply for a Mac mini?
Microsoft exchange admin: What's a mini?
Hardware tech: You should ask your wife.
Help desk phone tech: Heyo!
Los Angeles, California
Coworker #1: We need printing guidelines for clients.
Coworker #2: I don't care what they print on: Mylar, Duratran, paper-machete…
Kenilworth, New Jersey
Overheard by: Scared Employee
Engineer coworker on phone: I've got this article. You should read it. It's a patent. We could do this!
Wisconsin
IT guy: And you can help with setting up the sites, too.
Super-cute admin assistant: Okay.
Office manager, walking in: What's going on?
IT guy: I was just telling her that she could help me out this year if she wanted to.
Office manager: Oh yeah, she's an untapped resource.
IT guy, after pause: I'd tap that.
Castle Rock, Colorado
VP, strolling into cube farm: Toasters or toaster ovens?
Staffer #1: Toasters.
Staffer #2: Toasters.
Staffer #3: Toaster ovens!
VP: Toasters, right? We already have a toaster oven.
Staffer #4: Definitely toasters.
Staffer #3: No, toaster ovens!
VP: Wait, I want to hear Alice*'s perspective here.
Staffer #3: Toaster ovens do more and they break less often!
Several other staffers: But toasters are faster!
Staffer #5: Boo!
Staffer #3: Never mind, I withdraw my comments. I'm being booed.
VP: Careful, or you'll get voted off the island!
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
