Technology

Producer: So, here is everything you need for the meeting.
Account Person: Okay. Did you get a chance to make the changes we talked about?
Produer: What changes?
Account Person: The changes that were brought up in the call. I talked about them in the conference wrap-up email.
Producer: I didn’t get a conference wrap-up email.
Account Person: Well I know, I didn’t send it to you yet.

466 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

Co-worker: Is these discs recorderable overable?

Rubislaw House
Anderson Drive
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
UK

Project Engineer: If you expect me to do quality work I’m going to need a raise.

10 West Mifflin Street
Madison, Wisconsin

Worker: [Bryan]’s sick today; he IMed me and said he needs one of us to come to his house and give him a sponge bath.

1831 Chestnut Street
St. Louis, Missouri

IT Manager: Yeah, he named all of his functions after fish. He was a brilliant programmer, so we let it slide.

149 Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Staff: Hey, can one of you help me fix–
IT: Go away before I replace you with a very small shell script.

7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Overheard by: CP

Co-worker #1: Don’t you think the enter key is kind of phallic? You know–how it’s all “enter” with an arrow pointing?
Co-worker #2: Huh. Yeah. Weird.
Co-worker #1: And there’s the backspace button too. Arrow points the same way.
Co-worker #2: Yeah, maybe that’s so gay people don’t feel left out?

350 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

Assistant: How about an update on the report for the database we talked about last week? Have you gotten to that yet?
IT: I’m not sure which one you’re talking about.
Assistant: Well, currently there is a cross-tab that displays home addresses and a cross-tab that displays financial aid, but we need a report to show us the student records by state with home address, and we need a find-sort for all students with financial aid and a hold on their account.
IT guy: …Um, I couldn’t tell where that sentence began and where it ended.
Dean’s assistant: Neither could I.

633 Main Street
Burlington, Vermont

Front Desk: What does code 99499 mean?
Coder: “You’re a dirty whore.”
Front Desk: They have codes for that?

675 North St. Clair Street
Chicago, Illinois

Office worker: The paper coming out of the printer is really hot! It’s never been that hot before. Can we do something to cool it down?
Tech: Oh, I forgot! I put the summer paper in there! I’ll switch to the winter paper! Give me 10 minutes.

1700 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida