Re: No access to 56k pr0n for you...
Let me tell you a story. I met my boss at that job before I was hired, when the company held a customer appreciation event. How I became a customer is almost as interesting. See, I had an Amiga, and I was told by a couple of places there was no way they could get me on-line. When I called this company, the guy who answered the phone thought it was cool as hell, and while we were talking he had signed me up and let me have a chance to get going. I did.
At the event, some people wanted to meet me and I got to meet them... but not after I had already gotten completely shit-faced, but was still very excited to talk about the Amiga and technology in general. I kind-of had a job interview right there, and within a month I was working with them.
I was brought on to be an assistant administrator, and the guys taught me the ropes. In a couple of months I was proficient with the dial-up and ISDN system, Windows on the Internet, IP networking, and some colocated server management. In the dark, dark corners of the network sat a Unix machine (Solaris 2.4 on a SparcStation clone,) with a dying hard drive and some other issues. I was tasked with its administration since I knew some Unix and the administrator, aside from having a lot on his hands with the NT side of things, would get uncharacteristically furious at Unix.
By the time the dial-up system lock-out occurred, I had a deep respect for my boss. We worked as both equals and as pupil and master. I had no reason to hide what I had done, especially when expressing that I had learned a valuable lesson about "implicit deny." A lesson he admitted to having had learned the hard way, as well.
We all worked together for almost four years; we became a team, and our work relationships mostly turned into good friendships. Our company was sold to a local competitor and I spent the first six months working in the new company's office as a contractor. We have continued that mutually beneficial working relationship for 20 years, coming back around to me not playing a major part in the company under new management
I am proud to say that I am still close friends with a couple of the guys I started with there, and have had the deepest honor to participate in their weddings, as a groomsman and as my former boss's Best Man.