why office chat is a good thing

[waider]

Dramatis Personae
kor: an admin on a remote site
waider: your humble scribe
kathryn: our software development manager



Action!

 <kor> help
 <kor> oops
 <waider> help: command not found.
 <kor> /msg waider /help
 <kor> waider is a bot, right?
 <kathryn> Yeah, we're trying to program him to pass the turing test,
it's just not working though
 <waider> not compute your sentence please phrasing it differently occur
 <waider> *sparks*
 <waider> *grinding gear noises*
 <kathryn> Shit, waider needs oiling again...
 <waider> ooh!
 * waider blinks
 

The funniest part of this was watching kathryn hunch over in a fit of giggles (she sits at the next desk from me).