Shark Tank
By Sharky
Throwback Thursday: Shh! Don't tell!
In this company's IT department, they spell DBA G-O-D -- which wouldn't be such a problem if it didn't mean a new database-oriented application will run so S-L-O-W.
05/24/18
Top-level executive support, redefined
This multinational company needs a new call-center system for its US division -- but what it's got is a penny-pinching division president who wants to run the project.
05/23/18
Well, he was half-right -- it WAS plugged in...
Flashback to the late 1980s, when this IT pilot fish working for a large city's Board of Education gets a call about a green-screen terminal that has stopped working.
05/22/18
Success at last!
This pilot fish changes jobs, moving from a small software company to a large state college -- and there's a bit of culture shock when it comes to basic equipment.
05/18/18
Throwback Thursday: Why comments were invented
IT gets request to provide employee data for the company-wide address book -- no big deal. But two years later, bosses get cell phones and it's time to change the code...
05/17/18
Well, it's secure, all right...
Small IT consultancy gets a contract with a very big company -- one that makes security a top priority. On Day 1, everything is fine. But Day 2 is a different story.
05/16/18
Smarter than you thought
Newly hired systems analyst doesn't really grasp systems, but she does knows how to throw lots of jargon around at managers -- and how to finesse an impossible situation.
05/15/18
And thanks so much for your input, boss!
It's 1999, but this IT department's big crisis isn't Y2k -- it's the Melissa virus, and all the teams are gathered to devise a plan for cleaning up the infection.
05/14/18
Clean, redefined
IT support pilot fish gets an instant message from one of the company's front-line techs, who has a customer on the line -- wanting to know how to clean his flash drive.
05/11/18
Throwback Thursday: Well, that explains it
There's a major system outage at this company, and it needs to be escalated at once to Support Team A. But there's just one problem...and another, and another, and...
05/10/18
Sure, go ahead and ask -- but don't tell
There's a significant data-loss incident at this small company, and once the lone IT pilot fish has restored the systems, he has one big question: How did this happen?
05/09/18
Technically, they only had to replace one part
IT consultant pilot fish works mostly with small and medium-size businesses, and some of them have very specific requirements -- such as "no equipment purchases."
05/08/18
But it's just a planet!
Flashback a decade or so to the days when this IT shop is setting some standards for how it will name new servers -- and what could be safer than names from astronomy?
05/07/18
'And the internet -- you've heard of that, right?'
IT pilot fish is working with a customer to set up a connection for secure file transfers, and it's not going well -- so the customer brings in a consultant to help out.
05/04/18
Throwback Thursday: Need to know? Yes!
New-hire IT pilot fish is assigned as contact person on a job that's already in progress. But the contact person on the other side isn't exactly the communicating type.
05/03/18
At least they didn't just unplug it to plug in the vacuum
It's the late 1960s, and refrigerator-size minicomputers are arriving at university computing centers. But the way-cheaper-than-mainframe machines do have a few issues.
05/02/18
'...And if we're using it, why do we need training?'
The company where this pilot fish works is acquired by a very big IT vendor -- and naturally that means there'll be some changes made. First on the agenda: email.
05/01/18
And we're guessing EVERYBODY is happier now
Annual performance review time at this company has come and gone, and one database admin who's at the bottom of the IT-shop pecking order has reached the end of his rope.
04/30/18
Those who can, do. Those who can't, have roommates.
Flashback to 1971, when this future IT pilot fish has one final assignment to finish in order to graduate: write a program to make change for a purchase from a $5 bill.
04/27/18
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