Mobile employees at this big international company already aren't entitled to a home office or use of a real office at a company location -- and with the economy going south, it's getting worse.

This pilot fish works for a small company that prints tags for the garment industry -- and that involves a lot of late-night tech support for partners on the other side of the world.

Smoking is still allowed at this aerospace company when a construction project has temporarily moved these programmers right next to a group of facilities people -- many of whom smoke.

This retail company is seeing dismal profits due to the economic downturn. Fortunately, one manager sees the problem: too much lost productivity.

It's late 1999, and this telecommunications company has a special gift for everyone who helped out on the Y2k project.

This data center is being relocated, and movers are scheduled to transport four $75,000 UPS units for the 600-mile trip. But it isn't quite going according to plan.

An IT staffer at one of this conglomerate's companies loads a password cracker to demonstrate that sister companies' servers are insecure, then brags about it. Reven -- er, corrective action, anyone?

It's 7 a.m. at this engineering firm, and a senior pilot fish is the only IT guy around when a call comes in from the boss of the production department about a DVD burner that just won't work.

Vendor sends this IT pilot fish a cheap 'thank you' gift for sending business his way -- and fish, who has never received any vendor gifts before, shows it to his boss to make sure everything is OK.

IT consultant pilot fish signs on with an outfit in Denmark -- and it's the most efficiently run office he's ever seen.

A software vendor is moving its product from an old computer to a new one at the business where this pilot fish works -- but the vendor needs a little help.

Sitting at home one evening, sysadmin pilot fish gets a frantic call from a night supervisor at the manufacturing plant: "All the computers have stopped working."

This regional retail chain relies heavily on fliers it mails to customers -- but not everyone is clear on how to use the customer list.

This pilot fish is 'scholar in residence' at a local library that has just acquired a new Unix server -- and all it needs now is a firewall.

IT director installs a new rack loaded with state-of-the-art servers in a new climate-controlled server room, and for months everything runs flawlessly. And then, suddenly, it doesn't.