It's in the post
In the late '80s we had a 386 setup as a bridge running software off 5 1/4" floppy. This little beastie fell over requiring me to come in an hour early every morning to download the previous day's db transactions to a 3 1/2" floppy then uploading them to the account department's system (I offered to reconfigure and bring everything up to date, but too expensive for the bean counters). 5 days of this and tracking down the guy who wrote the bridge, (he was way in the outbacks of Australia) and he agreed to send over an updated version. A few days later I get an envelope which had been folded in half somewhere on it's journey and which contained the 5 1/4" cardboard floppy disk that was supposed to give me my morning hour back. Another week later I got a properly packaged and undamaged floppy in the mail. I handed in my notice a week later
when my boss decided to go with my original update plan so we (meaning I) wouldn't have to go through that again. Being the entire IT dept with no budget just wasn't me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
