BOFH: OutBOFHd "...and this is Simon and Steven. Simon, Steven, this is David, he's our new hardware technician," the new Boss says, entering Mission Control. "New hardware technician? What about our old one?" "I was under the impression we didn't have an old one." "That's right," the PFY says defensively. "Because we didn't need one." " …
Ok, I have been an avid reader of BOFH since 2000, I have digged up the early material from University before he started working for the man, and I can without irony and in complete and utter sincernes say I'm looking forward to the revenge...!
But this HAS to me the mother of all revenges put togheter BOFH&PFY style.... They have been played before, but not this hard - someone has to make an example!
BOFH rides again!
This affront to the natural order cannot be tolerated. We need the BOFH&PFY to strike back and strike back hard.... for all those of us that have to put up with users, bosses, sales depts, HR and payroll for real..
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Kick em hard
kick em low and when they're on the floor
kick em some more
The BOFH can never be defeated because he always thinks a dozen steps ahead of everyone else.
For example, everything valuable that was stolen was probably insured.. or at least will be as soon as he get to a keyboard.. for three or four times its real value or so.
For all we know Dave and John are working with the BOFH for this very reason.
Or the BOFH set the whole thing up simply to steal the PFY's plasma TV.
The only thing we know for sure is a bastard always has a backup plan.
This is the Bastard Operator from Hell. I find your lack of faith disturbing. There will be retribution. The world will be set right, or at least massively in his favor anyway. I'm concerned about you though... Is your faith so weak that you must whine about it not being fair, about it not being possible, or can you not see the bigger plan. The BOFH will rise from this (and someone else most likely will wind up with the oscilliscope shoved up their nether regions). Relax.
I personally (and will be hated for saying this) would love to see the New Guy join forces and become a regular character. I think it's better than all the transitory Bosses and could really add a new dimension to the series.
He didn't technically do anything *wrong* by the Bastard standard. Why not acknowledge the man's strengths and then use them for bettering the BOFH's own interests?
This serial has always rewarded those who were smart or who were devious. It discouraged those who were (a) too fortunate blindly, (b) too ignorant, or (c) too hard-headed, unadaptive.
Punishing Dave would fly in the face of that, wouldn't it?
There hasn't been time to nab the plasma screen yet. He's *at* the PFY's house right now.
All Simon has to do is activate that trap he set years ago just in case he needed to murder the PFY in his sleep and everything is back to normal. As long as the PFY doesn't find out too many details of course.
When bosses and "co-workers" have secretly turned out to be bastards of a different sort. Sometimes even real bosses have been 'bastardized', usually by firsthand experience of what it means to actually *do* something or by direct exposure to the using masses...
Then again, trying to out-bastard a bastard can be rather career limiting...
no good deed goes unpunished.
Both of them have left the company... no tape safe or halon release for them... Someone's bank account is going to be transferred to a bar tab, Customs and immigration is going to find 10 return trips to Kabul, and records of communication with Osama via the aforementionned recycled goods...
2 people are going to get bastardized "pour l'example"...
Cheers,
Daniel
Maybe Simon Travilga wants to have some fun with a war between systems and networks again. Remember, when the BOFH first worked for the PFYs uncle, he was only networks, and had to get control over systems. Again, when he and the PFY were headhunted, the same thing happened. Maybe he wants to have another battle between Systems and Networks in a month or two. That could give loads of fun with electrified CAT5, explosives, hacked doors, and so on, before Systems comes back under his control, which could last for a few months, on and off, without loosing such chaacters as the janitor and the security guard.
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