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The anonymous character "John" worked at a variety of real-life software companies, each of which was utterly surreal in some special way. Here we recount John's tales of late-night pizzas, sinister pipe smoke and foisty armpit fritters.

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BodgeCo
John worked at BodgeCo for three long, torturous years. Boy, did that make him bitter!

More BodgeCo
A retrospective return to the place where it all started - for a fresh round of shocking stories...

BodgeCo Part Three October 21, 2001
The return of the sinister Mrs Griffiths and her dreaded Evil Eye.

CrapScape
The software company where "development" is a dirty word. Includes The CrapScape E-Mails.

Flapsoft
Where the managers refused to flap, as they had no idea anything was wrong.

Scatterlogic - July 20, 2001
Where all logic was scattered to the four winds.

Scatterlogic Part Two November 11, 2001
Meet Laurel, Hardy and Calvin the Stubborn Manager.

Scatterlogic Part Three March 3, 2002
Meet the Novelty Engineers and their primary-coloured Enterprise Screen Savers.

Hoopla Inc., Part One - Updated - September 23, 2001
Grown-up Teletubbies demonstrate an abject lack of project management experience.

Hoopla Inc., Part Two - September 23, 2001
Backstabbing Teletubbies get nasty!

Hoopla Inc., Part Three - September 30, 2001
The dreaded meeting gets under way. Dipsy is confused.

Hoopla Inc., Part Four November 11, 2001
- in which we all discover why Conglomerate Assimilates has such a rotten reputation.

Sheep-Cleaning Story January 6, 2002
Contractual wrangling at an unnamed US Governmental agency.

Tightclub Press Corp. December 9, 2001
The male-dominated old boy's network is alive and well in the magazine world.

Stapler Story October 14, 2001
Sulky manager gets in a tiz over stapler misfire.

MegaloSchrek October 7, 2001
Seagull managers make the most noise...

Council Survey Chaos - September 23, 2001
Lazy council workers consume taxpayers' hard-earned cash, grrr...

Amorous Nutcase at Mental Health Clinic - September 16, 2001
Has very little to do with the techie world (except some of us may end up somewhere like this...)

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