This pilot fish is in charge of a small but tight IT department in this big printing company, and his group is responsible for everything from networks, servers and PCs to the fax and phone systems.

And fish has one other major — if informal — responsibility. “I am a legendary jokester in my facility,” says fish. “My staff all shares in my pranks, and shares my vision of how to have fun but not destroy property.

“On my 30th birthday, I reluctantly went to work knowing that someone was going to mess with me — I deserve it. But I got to work and, to my surprise, my cube was not filled with shredded paper, my stapler was not welded shut, and my PC had not been replaced with an Etch A Sketch.”

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