Job: cashier
Item doesn’t scan
Customer: “That means it’s free, right?”
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I’ve heard this enough to last me a lifetime.
Me: Linux Sysadmin
Co-workers: 2 Linux sysadmins with 15+ years of experience.
They pronounce URL as Earl.
We do that, too, because it’s funny.
The probably started using it ironically and it fell into habbit.
There was a proto-meme back in the day along the lines of “URL? Who’s Earl?”
It’s been Earl since at least 1997 when Sun introduced their mascot for Java: The Duke of URL
My husband (a 55yo DBA) does that. 😬 He also says nu-cu-lar and en-tree. I’ve brought it to his attention but he’s just so used to it and after 23 years together it’s a battle I’ve opted out of. As long as he knows how he sounds to people like me, it’s on him.
Holy shit. That’s horrific and would drive me to quit.
