TPTB: Gather 'round everyone. I have an announcement to make.
Solies: Raises?
Blinky: Cookies!
Emma: It's bad news. I know it's bad news, it's always bad news.
QAGoddess: How can it be bad news? Everything is great! I love this place!
JumJill: Grrrr.
Irv: Down in Maine, we have a way of telling whether something is bad news.
Steve: All news is ( Read more... )

MacroMan: Good news, everyone! We're ahead of the curve. The support for the new database is being pushed back until a follow-on release.
Wanda: Hurray! We'll all be gone!
MacroMan: Well, we're still going to do all the testing and everything else to qualify it, so Robert doesn't have to worry about that.
Robert: Thank you.
Everyone Else: ( Read more... )

Robert: You're just trying to make me look like the bad guy here.
MacroMan: Well, we all have our roles.

Emma: Grump
Blinky: Aw. Poor Emma. What's wrong? Ooooh! New Palm?
Emma: My old one broke.
Blinky: Ah, that explains the grump.
Emma: Grump
Robert: You got another Palm? Where's the new one.
Emma: Right here.
Robert: That doesn't look new.
Emma: I just got it yesterday.
Robert: Oh, you bought a used one.
Emma: No. This is new.
Robert: It doesn' ( Read more... )

As many of the denizens Widget, Inc collect outside of Emma's cube, the following conversation ensues:

Kit: I really miss Emma!
Robert: Me too!
Takis: Me three!
Steve: I miss her on the days that I'm here that she isn't.
Phil:Yes, the place lacks a certain something without her.

Suddenly, that titan of newly minted managerially-ness, Solies ( Read more... )

Robert: Oh no! I've just cut and paste this column over my existing columns!
Crowd: Oh no!
Coworker6: Undo! Undo!
Robert: I can't!
MacroMan: I'll save you! Save this as a new name and bring up the old one and copy back!
Robert: First I must save my dependencies!
Crowd: (watching) Oh no!
Macro Man: While you were saving, the autosave kicked in! ( Read more... )

Blinky: What does random TLA stand for?
Emma: random Three Letter Acronym.
CaptainSubtext: Whispers into Emma ear
Emma: Do you want company to see the clearcase manager?
CaptainSubtext: Whispers into Blinky's ear
Blinky:If you'd like to come, sure!
...Later...
Robert: Is Hopkins your maiden name?
Emma: No, married. Yesowitch is my maiden name.
( Read more... )

Screaming Mob: BRING OUT THE DOCUMENTATION! We want the docs! You can't withhold knowledge from us! We demand documentation!
Picket lines start forming outside the hapless cubicle.
Emma: Oh dear. What are you looking for?
Screaming Mob: We want to run a built-in client through the undocumented interface utilizing a hoard of screaming monkeys as ( Read more... )

Robert: Give me some sugar. (rummages in candy bowl) You know, Lanna says I shouldn't say that to a southern woman, they'd get the wrong idea.
Emma:(speaking with a native Kentucky drawl): Actually, it's the other way around. It's okay to say it to a Southern woman because we always talk like that, Sugar, Darlin', hon. It's just one of those ( Read more... )

Robert: How can you remember all that stuff from the meeting without writing it down.
Emma: Exactly!
Robert: But you were playing games! I saw you!
Emma: But I was paying attention and I took notes where appropriate.
Robert: Wow!