Engineer pilot fish working for a state agency gets a notification one September morning from IT by way of his boss: Something is using up all the space on his local hard disk.

“My supervisor’s note said, yes indeed, my C: drive was full, and he suggested a few programs that could likely be deleted,” says fish.

“It took IT weeks to make some space — and then that space disappeared over the weekend.”

The official word from IT is that fish needs a new, bigger hard drive to fix the problem.

So while fish is waiting for that to be approved, he begins a new procedure: Every morning he moves several gigabytes’ worth of work-related images off his C: drive to free up local space. Then, at the end of each day, he copies the images back onto his local drive.

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