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This pilot fish and 11 of his co-workers are being taken out to dinner by a very big IT vendor -- and fish and his boss, who both know fine wines, get to select the drinks. How could this possibly go wrong?
Pilot fish works on the IT help desk at a hospital run by a religious organization, but he helpfully proofreads the hospital's intranet, too. The biggest repeat offer when it comes to typos: Food Services.
Consultant pilot fish is getting bored with his current project, but the client has a hot new project planned and would love fish on the team. Just one problem: He'll need training to learn the new technology.
This company develops embedded systems, and all the user-facing text is internationalized, but not the diagnostics. Then a new owner wants that to be translated too -- within the next two weeks.
It's just about Y2k time, and this pilot fish is assigned to a college's accounting department, where he has lots of duties that include one very taxing responsibility: uploading 1099 data every year to the IRS.
Flashback a decade or two, to the days when one big database vendor is constantly changing its licensing -- and customers keep figuring out how to beat it.
This company makes a corporate decision to go 100-percent Microsoft .NET for its web app development -- and that's a problem for the pilot fish who's responsible for the existing versions of some of those apps.
It's this IT pilot fish's first job out of college, and the company he works for has just hired a new VP of sales and marketing from a major computer vendor -- and he has a new motivational slogan for the company.
It's the early 1990s, and time for the sales guys in a remote office to enter the world of PCs. But after a few weeks, one of them has a problem: His computer is full.
This engineering firm needs to send workers out to collect data in the tunnels around a water-treatment plant, and a pilot fish has outfitted them with software for their iPads. But why did it suddenly stop working?
The city where this company has its headquarters is about to host a summit of leaders from the Group of Twenty nations -- and that means getting to work is going to be a challenge.
Flashback to the early 1980s, when this IT department has a Cobol program that's intermittently failing -- but only when it runs on one of the department's two big processors. Now, exactly where's the problem?
This credit union updates its online banking website with security questions, so a pilot fish with accounts there updates all her family's accounts. But why can't her husband answer the questions?
Flashback to the early 1990s: This pilot fish's group is developing PC applications that pulls down mainframe data using middleware. But what can be done about the 46-second response time?
Two users at this company just happen to share the same name and birth date. That's an annoyance for them -- but a bigger irritant for the network admin who has to deal with them.
It's 12:52 p.m. when this IT pilot fish gets an email message from an office manager at a remote site he supports -- and it's nothing like welcome news.
Circa 1980, this big organization's campus runs on modem pools that connect users to mainframes and minicomputers, Good thing a big stack of the latest rack-mount modems have just arrived, isn't it?
