Memory-Lane Monday: We’re monitoring that

Flashback to the 1990s, when this pilot fish is the lone network admin for his division of a big office support company.

“Since our division had its own building and was somewhat remote, we had a lot of autonomy,” says fish. “I was able to pretty much have my data center and work spaces designed the way I wanted them — within budgetary guidelines, of course.”

Then comes an office-space reshuffle, and fish’s desk, workbench and lab are moved into a much smaller space.

But to make up for the newly cramped quarters, fish’s boss gives him permission to design exactly how the new space will work.

Fish lays it out to put power and data connections in all the places he needs them, with a specially built workbench and even a large, extra-heavy-duty shelf designed to hold several huge monitors with pull-down keyboard trays.

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