Pilot fish accepts a contract to be the local hands-on tech to install a workstation at a local bank, and initially everything seems to go according to plan. He has everything he needs -- in fact, more than he needs.

This pilot fish is at home, attempting to single-handedly save the world on a PC upstairs, while another member of the family is downstairs trying to set up fish's netbook to do some homework -- but can't connect to the Internet.

Hospital IT pilot fish gets a call from the nursing department: A user's PS/2 keyboard has a bad key, and it needs to be replaced. But when he tries to plug in the new keyboard, he can't.

Small interior-design firm pays this pilot fish to do computer and software maintenance as a side gig -- and that's really more than they should need.

This Excel power user is trying to copy information from a spreadsheet someone has sent to her -- but when she presses Ctrl+C, the spreadsheet flickers a few times and then all the data vanishes.

New consultant comes on board to help a big company improve its software development process, and soon begins complaining about the project planning and source code management tool that this pilot fish maintains.

Data center pilot fish is a programmer who works on his company's internal software, so he's the one who's called in when this user gets an unexpected error.

This printer is still under warranty, so when it goes bad, an IT pilot fish calls the company that sold it -- and that's when one know-it-all meets another.

This pilot fish and a colleague go down to a field office to check on why the users there have, with few exceptions, refused to implement office automation -- and they don't make much headway.

This IT pilot fish at a government agency gets a call from the administrative officer, who's on the verge of hysterics: Her computer is dead, she's having a total meltdown, and it's all his fault.