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Flashback to the 1980s, when alcohol hasn't yet been banned where this pilot fish works, and a development team discovers just how useful it can be in a big project in the data center.

Apple is facing international protest against the plight of workers in its supplier factories. Isn't it time the campaign bought the fight for fair working conditions against Apple's competitors, too?

It's been two weeks since this server problem was reported at a remote site, and this pilot fish has made sure he's not on the team dealing with it.

This grade school includes two buildings about five miles apart -- one for the elementary grades, the other for the middle school -- and one IT pilot fish supports the both. So why doesn't she know about the guy on the roof?

This engineering firm tests equipment as part of its business, so when a manager at a site in another country sends programmer pilot fish a message saying he needs an urgent change to the testing software, fish moves fast.

It's a decade ago, and this Linux sysadmin pilot fish has survived several rounds of layoffs before he finally gets the ax. But he's not worried -- he has a standing offer to come work for one of his old employer's customers.

This company is upgrading production equipment at several sites spread all over the state -- and when this pilot fish gets a call from another site about a PC that won't power up, he knows what to do.

Flashback a couple decades, to the days when everyone at this company is using IBM PC/ATs -- but that doesn't explain why the boss's PC takes minutes to delete a single email.

It is commonplace in our industry to refer to the applications and other functionality that IT delivers to users as "services." We talk about the performance of the "IT services" to the desktop. We talk about the "service catalog" that we offer the business. We even claim to have "service-oriented architectures." Unfortunately, despite all this talk, corporate IT is still not very service-oriented at all. And one of the main ways this lack of service-orientation reveals itself is in IT's opacity. Insider (registration required)

This IT pilot fish at a manufacturing company is about to take his Christmas vacation -- which, naturally, means he's still on call if anything goes wrong. And with a co-worker whose foot-dragging is legendary, that's almost guaranteed.

The Facebook IPO will be official later today, we're told. The rumor-mill sets the price per share at around $45, assuming the $100 billion valuation being bandied about. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it'll be (NYSE:FB) or (NASDAQ:FB). Not to mention: 20 Rejected Monopoly Chance Cards...

The phones at this company have a key sequence that enables auto-answer, so the phone doesn't ring -- the caller is immediately connected in speakerphone mode. That's a feature that one supervisor loves.

Jony Ive isn't the only Brit at the top of Apple's executive tree any more. He has a retail-focused potential chum as Apple hires away Dixons chief exec, John Browett, to lead its rapidly-expanding and highly profitable retail arm. What do we know about the new boss?

This pilot fish gets the same memo from the Big Boss as everyone else in the company -- and it doesn't bode well.

This IT pilot fish at a small manufacturing company really could use his upcoming vacation -- particularly to get away from one co-worker. But he can't completely leave work behind.