I started out in the very early 80's and first job was a Electrical company government job. First week was an introduction to COBOL (which I already knew) and

I started out in the very early 80's and first job was a Electrical company government job. First week was an introduction to COBOL (which I already knew) and second week was an introduction to GCOS (which I also already knew). One of the challenges in the second week was to come up with as many ways of copying a file using the GCOS8 (Honeywell Bull DPS8) shell. Now on GCOS the current workfil was called SRC, so one example was to use that, now one of the other `students` came over and accused me of copying another chaps work, I laughed and so did the chap in question who knew me very well. We thought nothing of it. Later when it was show and tell this chap who had accused me of copying somebody else's work had a glaring error in his work. He had used MTW instead of *SRC. Now this chap was called Martin and had accused me of copying from Steven, who's initials happened to be...SRC. Sadly this Martin chap ended up getting the best position, turns out he had schmoozed the head guy with BBC micro talk and as he had one, they had a good chat about that and the whole aspect that he was not that good just got overlooked. Moral being, if your a good person and honest, you do get shafted on from time to time.