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Again with the weirdness
Bizarre
"I use billion-dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods. What's your hobby?"
- the "big teal chicken" guy. Either he was joking, or he's actually delusional.
- the "big teal chicken" guy. Either he was joking, or he's actually delusional.
Standard procedure
Wisdom
"Well, how did you create the batch before?"
"I don't know... it worked before. *pause* Let's blame Dave. He's not here today."
- my co-worker and the woman on speaker phone in his office
"I don't know... it worked before. *pause* Let's blame Dave. He's not here today."
- my co-worker and the woman on speaker phone in his office
Don't go in there
Um...
"I don't even want to get close to your jpegs, let alone play with them."
- one middle-aged programmer to another, in the cubicle next to me
- one middle-aged programmer to another, in the cubicle next to me
Yarrr! Move it along thar
Funny
"There were over 40,000 pirates in 1862."
At first I hoped my co-worker was talking about this, but when I walked by again a few minutes later I heard:
"... so to stop people loitering, they started putting them outside businesses."
- cubicle farm, Indiana
At first I hoped my co-worker was talking about this, but when I walked by again a few minutes later I heard:
"... so to stop people loitering, they started putting them outside businesses."
- cubicle farm, Indiana
Hick Tech
Ironic
"This thing's got more RAM on it than that one by a country mile."
- IT guy, cubicle farm, Indiana
- IT guy, cubicle farm, Indiana
Stir-fried metaphors
Um...
"It's like if you're lost in the desert or... someplace..."
"Maybe there's a plane crash, and it's standing on a block of ice..."
- a couple of supervisors using increasingly tragic scenarios to explain a change in our software release policy
"Maybe there's a plane crash, and it's standing on a block of ice..."
- a couple of supervisors using increasingly tragic scenarios to explain a change in our software release policy
That's what they all say
Funny
"Next time you talk to him, mention that that workflow is a spawn of Satan. Uh-huh. No, we have proof. We have proof."
- a co-worker in the next row, this morning
- a co-worker in the next row, this morning
Sure you want to advertise that?
Scenes
Seen:
A large piece of cardboard taped onto the back of a pickup truck, passenger side, with an arrow pointing to the right and the words "DIDN'T GET LAID LAST NIGHT."
The truck was parked, so I wondered if perhaps this was some sort of prank. Marital spat? I dunno.
~ outside a SCUBA shop, a few months ago, Indiana
A large piece of cardboard taped onto the back of a pickup truck, passenger side, with an arrow pointing to the right and the words "DIDN'T GET LAID LAST NIGHT."
The truck was parked, so I wondered if perhaps this was some sort of prank. Marital spat? I dunno.
~ outside a SCUBA shop, a few months ago, Indiana
That's one expensive chicken
Bizarre
"I just got an email saying the big teal chicken is 20 million over budget."
- a co-worker, who startled me by suddenly speaking into his hands-free set as I was talking to someone else in the next cubicle
- a co-worker, who startled me by suddenly speaking into his hands-free set as I was talking to someone else in the next cubicle
Dead Men's Cars
Bizarre
"I consider myself a pretty sensitive guy, but we've got all these people kickin' off and leaving their cars behind..."
- a co-worker, I assume discussing the rising trends in both death notices and requests to buy used cars around the office
- a co-worker, I assume discussing the rising trends in both death notices and requests to buy used cars around the office
