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[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Unfortunately that's the way of the world of you can do your job, if our CEO has a problem with his home network I have to drop everything to fix it, fortunately it's usually piss easy to fix, his wife is really nice and I get given some really nice bottles of wine as well as getting paid for a very pleasant day out, most of which is spent driving there and back.

OTOH I'm trying to get out of a working tour of Egypt and Tanzania currently.

[JamJar]

Heh. The president of Honda (can't recall his name, it was about 2001) used to call me 'Scary Tattoo Man' It was when Honda UK moved their HQ from Chiswick to the new building in Langley. It was a massive greenhouse of a place and the AC had failed so we could all come in wearing shorts, t-shirts etc.
I was in early one day to do some patching and switch setting up, the Pres was already in, in the presidential suite/office on the top floor and couldn't get his laptop to connect. Support manager asked me to go up and have a look, so I did. Pres was very dapper, almost cartoon Japanese, suit, slicked back hair, accent etc. And there's me, tatty shorts, vest, boots, skinhead. Dragon tattoos on arms.

"Harro! Raptop not work, not connect, no email!"
"Nae danger, let's huv a look. Ah, ye've plugged it intae the VOIP socket, there ye go, sorted!"

With that the IT manager who'd asked me to come up appeared, fawning, bowing, anxious that everything should be perfect and asking if everything was alright now.

"Yes! Scary tattoo man scare raptop, made it work!" Apparently the dragon looks like a Yakuza gangster thing. Made a rod for my back though, whenever he was in the UK and had any kind of IT problem, printer, email, anything he used to ask for the scary tattoo man and I'd get dragged off whatever I was doing no matter what it was to go and fix it.

Traditionally only 2 groups had tattoos in Japan, Yakuza and Firemen in Edo (Tokyo).

[gremlin]

It was when Honda UK moved their HQ...

I like them kinda stories.

[Mr Moofo]

Heh. The president of Honda (can't recall his name, it was about 2001) used to call me 'Scary Tattoo Man' It was when Honda UK moved their HQ from Chiswick to the new building in Langley. It was a massive greenhouse of a place and the AC had failed so we could all come in wearing shorts, t-shirts etc.
I was in early one day to do some patching and switch setting up, the Pres was already in, in the presidential suite/office on the top floor and couldn't get his laptop to connect. Support manager asked me to go up and have a look, so I did. Pres was very dapper, almost cartoon Japanese, suit, slicked back hair, accent etc. And there's me, tatty shorts, vest, boots, skinhead. Dragon tattoos on arms.

"Harro! Raptop not work, not connect, no email!"
"Nae danger, let's huv a look. Ah, ye've plugged it intae the VOIP socket, there ye go, sorted!"

With that the IT manager who'd asked me to come up appeared, fawning, bowing, anxious that everything should be perfect and asking if everything was alright now.

"Yes! Scary tattoo man scare raptop, made it work!" Apparently the dragon looks like a Yakuza gangster thing. Made a rod for my back though, whenever he was in the UK and had any kind of IT problem, printer, email, anything he used to ask for the scary tattoo man and I'd get dragged off whatever I was doing no matter what it was to go and fix it.

Traditionally only 2 groups had tattoos in Japan, Yakuza and Firemen in Edo (Tokyo).

And tattoos are frowned upon / banned is some public places. There is an acceptance of them to some degree on non-Japanese but one of our Singapore staff alway put a sticking plaster over the one on the back of his neck when there.