Pilot fish is hired by this company to develop a simple database system to track clients and match them with doctors.

“The system itself was finished fairly quickly, and I was asked to write a training manual,” says fish.

“The company was willing to keep me on and the pay was good, so I developed the manual, and on the front cover I was instructed to put a picture of the manager of the HR department, sitting at his desk while looking at the main screen of the application.”

Fish takes a photo of the HR manager and sets up the front cover in Photoshop, and then submits it for approval.

And for the next three months, fish is dragged into weekly meetings where the big topic of conversation is that picture. Could fish enhance the image? Could he move the monitor over to highlight the fact that the application was being used?

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