Overheard at the office #27

Coworker is taking the HDD out of a laptop and stripped one of the screws. He has a flat head screwdriver in his hand. He's referring to it as a regular screwdriver. I grab a Phillips head and ask him if that one is an irregular screwdriver. He has no idea what I'm talking about.

Overheard at the office #26

A coworker called in to a large local cable Internet provider in the area to report an outage for one of our clients. After a little back and forth, the support technician did something and then said this gem:

technician: I set up a ping. I'm going on my break, so I'll call you back in a few.

Good.  I wouldn't want to deprive you of your precious break during a nationwide outage.

Overheard at the office #25

An actual ticket update. The client does indeed see this.

"Researching if can you category in OWA for procedure"

My New Favorite Virus Scare Popup

Your Hard Disk May Have Trojan Virus!

It May Crash Your Data!

Please do not open internet browser for your security issue to avoid data corruption on your registery of your operating system! 

*All misspellings, grammatical errors, and logic defying statements are the property of their original author.

The Great Nicknames are Always Taken

The sales manager had an assistant that we referred to as Meat. Another coworker gave him this nickname because he was about as useful as a slab of meat. He didn't work out and was quickly replaced by a young lady we nicknamed Tofu even before she started because we had high hopes that she would be the complete opposite of Meat, or in other words, useful. 

She quit after a couple of weeks, taking a great nickname with her. You can't just reassign it to somebody else, right? 

Overheard at the office #24

Cowoker: The coal and oil companies could move to solar right now, they're just being lazy.

Yep, it has nothing to do with the billions of dollars they're making doing what they're doing.  Nor is it the millions of dollars they would have to spend to change out equipment and processes.  And it certainly isn't the inability to recoup all that cost.  Nope, they're just lazy.