Okay, some of you are aware of how "fascinating" my current position has become. It's a great group of people that I work with, but it's impossible to avoid those Dilbert moments. As a way to relieve the stress of my 17th straight day of working (to be fair, it's my choice. They didn't ask me to do this), I am sharing with you one of the funniest Pointy-Haired Boss situations that I've seen in quite some time.

I consider myself fortunate that the owner of our company (I'll call him BoB), is moderately "tech-savvy". Unfortunately, he watches money like a hawk -- understandable since it's his money -- and this sometimes overrides his tech-savvy nature.

BoB refused to shell out the cash for anti-virus scanners.

Yup, you guessed it. His hard-drive got wiped out. He came out of his office cussing up a storm. BoB walked over to the IS director and asked him if he could restore BoB's computer from the back-up tapes.

At this point, the IS director explained that since BoB refused to pay the license fees for our backup software...

You would have been proud of my ability to keep a straight face.

What Dilbert stories do our fellow monks have? I need the stress relief and I'm sure our fellow monks would enjoy them!

Cheers,
Ovid

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