Ah, File Manager
Back when I'd just started doing IT consultancy, I was sent by my then Evil Pay Masters to one particular customer, in the middle of London. They were all mad. Sixty-two people, each and every one bonkers in their own little ways. Mad as lions who'd spent all day taking Mad McMad's Mad Pills.

They used to wind me up royally. Anyway, I was putting in a new network for them, as they were upgrading from Windows 3.0 to Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Told you this was a long time ago. For those too young to remember, check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Manager for more.

So... we had to create shared drives, and network drive mappings. It took me two weeks, but we had it straight. If you logged on, your home drive was I:, your team's drive was T:, and your workgroup's drive was G:. That last one was a bit tricky, because they wanted W:, but I talked them round.

So... we went live. And everyone's File Manager proudly showed their local and mapped drives. In order, they spelled A C G I T. And they were happy with the fact that each and every one of lunacy's disciples had the word "GIT" staring them in the face every day.

Two weeks later, my then boss arrives for a meeting. He decides to check over the new system. He logs on. He pauses, briefly. He beckons me over, and points to the offending message. "Has anyone else noticed this?" he queried.

"Nope." I replied confidently.

"Let's leave it there then", he said.

Job's a good 'un!

p.s.: A year later, they decided to go to the all-new Windows 95. The drive mappings were still there then. For all I know, they're still there now.
(purplegod counting down for Christmas!, Fri 27 Apr 2007, 22:33, Reply)