Re: It's Friday, I want to hear a funny IT, system i, computer Story.

Oh man.... well.... ok. Here's the rest of that story. Shortly after that my boss was fired and he was replaced as IT Director by a fellow with one year experience with PCs, I was let go soon after that. The one who did the job changes was fired soon after that.

But more to the one year experience... Prior to coming into this IT Department as a minimum wage gopher (his "one year of experience"), he had been a worker in a Marina where his nickname was "Captain Backwards" because he had apparently inadvertently sailed a customer's yacht backwards across the marina basin, causing a whole lot of damage.

With the advantage now of a few years, that part is even funnier than the pan of cookies.





Dan wrote:

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

He looked at her, said he agreed, and would see what he could do. A few
days later she came in with a pan of cookies and a huge thank you.
Apparently she'd gotten both a raise and a promotion. And my boss got a
recognition for creating an environment where new stuff was being
developed.

Of course, you got a raise & recognition, too, for taking the initiative and
innovating on your own. Right?

- Dan