"SEMNET Services, this is Kathy speaking, how may I help you?

Oh hi Pammy!

No I'm just putting out the drinks for the implementation.

We're going live on our new IIS server at 13:00.  It's my first major
project.

Yes, really exciting!  I'm really proud of the way I got it going.  The
techies were incredibly down on the whole idea, but I managed to push it
through with the help of those TCO & reliability figures I got from the
salesman.

I know!  They're so conservative sometimes, and talk about negative! 
The sysadmin's manager just kept on griping about whose ass would be on
the line 'when it failed.'  You'd have thought she might have shown some
solidarity, but she's really gone native.

Exactly!  Eventually I just turned round and told her that I was running
the project, not her, and that if anyone's ass was on the line, then,
short of outright sabotage, it was mine.  That shut her up!  And the
boss was impressed.  Said he liked to see a woman who could stick it out
when the going got rough.  'I'm up for it,' I told him, 'I'm not gonna
wimp out when things hit bottom,  I'll carry on until things perk up,
and straighten out! '  Well he said I deserved a chance to show my
backbone, so the project went ahead.

The techies seemed to come around after that.  One came in with a box
marked 'for emergency use only.' And said that as Senior Responsible
Owner of the project in purchasing it was only right that I should look
after it.

Of course I peeked, but it was just a bunch of cable ties & a wire with
a couple of phone plugs and a little sticky label saying 'for use after
BSD'

Some kind of UNIX thingy I think,,, probably some kind of techie
in-joke.

Yes you should be able to get to the new site now, give it a try.

404?

Try again

Oh good.  Let's see.  Wait a minute, that's the old site.

Hang on a sec, someone's coming in.

Yes sir?  The box is right here.

What?!  It can't have!

Hey! Let go

No!  Stop it!  What do you think you're doing?

Cut me loose!

I'll sue!

Sir?

Well yes of course I remember.

A taste of the cat-5?  What's that mean?

Oh!

Oh no!

You can't mean...

Well yes I did say that but...

NO!

Oh please, not on the bare, not in front of everybody!

Oh please? No!

Ooowwww!"


"Sorry ma'am, Kathy's a little tied up at the moment.

Well, it's possible we may have an opening in purchasing, If you'd care
to leave your details I'll let you know."