Support pilot fish gets a visit from his company’s biggest and brightest hot-shot lawyer.

“My laptop is not working,” he tells fish condescendingly. “I need it fixed right away, because I have work to do.”

Fish sets to work at once. “I first attempted to power on the laptop. It wouldn’t power on at all,” fish says.

“I tried the usual troubleshooting techniques — change the battery, plug in the laptop with the AC adapter, plug in the AC adapter without the battery, try a different AC adapter — all to no avail.”

Hotshot lawyer is standing by, looking unimpressed, as fish begins to run out of options.

Maybe he dropped it, fish thinks. As diplomatically as possible, he asks the lawyer, “Did this laptop by chance fall on the ground?”

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