At this pilot fish’s new job, his boss Fred admits he’s not very computer savvy — which means he quickly comes to rely on fish so the boss’s lack of basic computing skills isn’t documented in endless IT help requests.

“One day Fred asked me how to find and log into the supplier portal of a major customer,” says fish. “There was some production part approval information that needed to be entered in their system immediately and there would be severe consequences if this did not occur.

“Barney, the person who was responsible for this function, was not at work that day and wasn’t responding to attempts to contact him. This was before our company had a rule prohibiting sharing of passwords and user IDs, so Fred gave me Barney’s login information for both his computer and the supplier portal.”

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