IT pilot fish has worked for this major city’s public school district for years, and by now he knows the ins and outs of all the systems — technical and bureaucratic.

“While originally hired to write a user manual for a system under development, I have been a Cobol and assembler programmer, a IBM systems programmer, Unix and network administrator, and just about everything in between,” fish says.

“Some time ago, the building facilities department put a small kitchen area in our office, where we had a microwave and coffee maker. They also added a deep kitchen sink.

“One day I was at the sink, washing the dead insects off the visor on my motorcycle helmet. A fellow walking by — a new manager who had just moved to our department from one of the schools — looked at me and then asked if I should be doing that on ‘company time.’

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