Who, Me? Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace whoopsies and reveal how you survived them.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Saul" who shared a story from his time working for an IBM dealer in the late 1980s.

"I'd taught myself how to use a PC/DOS and got the job because I knew more about PCs than the hiring manager or the team lead," Saul told Who, Me? On his first day at the coal face, his boss asked him to learn something new: UNIX.

Saul welcomed that suggestion and over the next six months became so proficient in IBM's AIX he built what he described as "a fairly not bad, multi-user, fault repor

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