I was second in command to Mike
The name on his birth certificate was Mike, but everyone knew him as "cunt Mike". He was IT Director, and we were going through the transition from dumb terminals to PC's. He'd managed to get some 286 PC's with math coprocessor's for the bean counters at about 3 grand each, so that they could piss around with spreadsheets more efficiently.

Myself and Mike were coming out of a meeting, when we met the finance director in the corrider. The FD said, "Mike - thanks for the PC's - they are stunning, but it would be very helpful if we could get a mouse each".

"Each?" screached Mike - "I don't think I can get you one each. I'll get you one between two." The FD and I looked at each other bemused.

He seriously went about getting one mouse between two finance s-sheet jockies and getting them fixed up to a switch-box, so that if either of the users wanted to use it they first had to switch between A or B ports on the box.

He thought it hilarious. I learned a lot from him.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:05, Reply)