Fourteen “Guys act like it’s the end of the world when you dump them; for, like, ten seconds.” — Francesca BoyleWithout waiting to be invited, Isaac walked into the Chief Technologist’s office and sat casually at one of the chairs around the circular meeting table. “Are you here to speed up those reporting queries for me?” Jenny asked without looking up from her screen. “I’ll run the optimizer across the BI database, see what it comes up with. Of course,” he added with a smile, “it would help if you didn’t keep changing your mind about what reports you wanted to run.” Jenny’s face twitched with a suppressed smile of her own, but she remained resolutely focused on the screen in front of her. “What’s the point of paying for an ad-hoc report writing tool if all my ad-hoc reports are going

