Coworker #1: I have Popular, NipTuck, and Six Feet Under in my queue, but I’m really a movie whore.
Coworker #2: That’s good. Admitting you’re a whore is the first step towards actually getting paid for it.
Coworker #1: What the hell are you talking about?
Wausau, Wisconsin
Coworker: I’m going to go draw lasers.
111 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Hear No Evil
Boss: Can you program this DVD player?
Temp: Um, maybe. I don’t know.
Boss: I thought you graduated from film school. What do they teach you there?
Temp: Obviously nothing useful for a later career.
Vienna
Austria
Overheard by: cinekat
Employee #1: How do you like your new office? Is the glare from the lights a problem? If so, I can twist the bulbs like I did in that other office.
Employee #2: That sounds kind of kinky.
Employee #1: Yeah!
Chicago, Illinois
.Net developer, finishing a presentation: … And that’s my presentation on .Net custom controls. Any questions about the toggle reader or list controls?
Java developer, bursting at the seams: So it turns out my frat brothers inadvertently stole a human corpse!
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Sales guy: Is the old copy machine face-up or face-down?
Office manager: Face… up. No, face-down. Eh, just try it both ways.
8220 England Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Man, to copier: There is paper in there! Stop being stupid! No, I will not add paper to tray four, I can tell you that right now. I will shoot someone before I add paper to tray four.
Berry College
Rome, Georgia
Coworker #1: Yo! Can you send me that link again?
Coworker #2: Which one?
Coworker #1: You know, that one you sent me. With the article about the guy from My Chemical Romance.
Coworker #2: You mean Wikipedia?
Coworker #1: Yeah. I wonder what else is on there.
Internet service provider, 110 Symonds Street
Auckland
New Zealand
Suit: Hey, which button is the hyphen? [Peon disappointedly points to hyphen key.] Oh, I thought that was called a ‘dash.’
Mortgage company
Melville, New York
Overheard by: Baffled how he gets paid four times as much as i do
Technical lead: See, I can’t do anything here in Version Three.
System admin: That’s because you’re not connected to the universe.
Technical lead: But the copy of the good universe didn’t point to us!
System admin: What universe are you guys operating in?
IT intern: Depends on what we’re smoking.
12900 Worldgate Drive
Herndon, Virginia
Overheard by: IT Consulting Stooge #4769
