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King Carl · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:

ALTERNATE POST: \o/

PeteMoss · Guest

I over heard this conversation earlier this week.

background info, employee works 8 am to 5 pm Mon-Fri. Department is not open on weekends.

employee: I want to work some over time.
Manager: can you come in an hour early and start at 7 am?
employee: I have enough trouble trying to get here by 8 am.
Manager: can you stay an hour late and work until 6 PM?
employee: I have to leave here by 5:30 so I can pick up my kid.

I sat at my desk thinking "why the fuck did you even ask about working overtime, if you can't fit it into your schedule?"

Halen · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1877 Location: England

Discussion about the pope

Friend1: You know, Ratzinger went to Auschwitz
Friend2: Really? Wow, is he jewish?

note: Ratzinger didn't go to Auschwitz at all, but that doesn't really excuse it Wink

Guccipiggy · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2003

My brother, speakin in English.

"I find wine to be very pleasureish".

We now use that adjective in my family as if it really existed.

Major Tom · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7562

is a good word

rm · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 4073

Major Tom · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7562

and why?

CopperTop · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject:

Had a fun one this week at the office. It wasn't an end user, it was the network technician.

Situation: A machine cannot connect to the LAN. The net tech insists that the NIC in the machine is shot, but I can get signal and network access on the machine at another desk.

Net tech pulls out his cable tester and hooks it up. "There is signal coming up the line, so it has to be the machine. I'll prove it by hooking the cable to the dock on this laptop." He hooked up the cable to the dock, and... nothing. My daughter (who was helping me do setups that day), reached over, pulled the cable from the dock and put it in the laptop, then politely pointed out that the laptop wasn't connected to the dock. The department manager, who has been watching the whole time, excuses himself to go snicker.

I pull up IPCONFIG. Machine has an IP address that doesn't match anything on the floor. "Dude, look at this IP address and tell me what's wrong here."

He looks at the IP address. "Crap, I've got the switch set up wrong."
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Halen · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1877 Location: England

That's not so much "People say the stupidest things" as "people do something complicated and technical involving cables and networks that only techies understand and laugh about over their linux mugs whilst browsing slashdot".

Dro · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 3830

Yeah, on Thursday a colleague suggested protein ubiquitination only occurs in the cytoplasm! Oh, how the rest of us laughed.

Spanky · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 842 Location: Rockville, MD

A coworker who sits across from me is very spaced out. When I mentioned that I was a student at the university of maryland, she started throwing out a bunch of names. About 10 or so of her daughter's friends. I answered "no" to each name she provided and kept reminding her that it's a huge school with thousands of students. I then asked her which year they were in to which she responded, "oh, they're all incoming freshmen"

Fhqwhgads · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 1337 Location: sfcaus

King Carl · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

Cap'n Lazarus · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 473 Location: Denver

Gots a leak.
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MsFrisby · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: