But did he still get the free lunch?
Flashback to 1985, when this sysadmin pilot fish has just gotten a job helping to manage IT for 400 engineers and related staff.
"I worked with a younger guy, Barney, who had been there for about two years," fish says. "I quickly found that Barney liked to show off, and whenever he wore a tie it usually meant there were sales people visiting and he was hoping for a free lunch -- even though we both knew we had zero budget for new equipment."
About two weeks after fish is hired, Barney shows up wearing the tie and asks fish to join him in the server room for a Q&A session with two salespeople. OK, fish figures, I might learn something.
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