Verlag - Plan Nine Publishing

TitelBastard Operator from Hell 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever
Simon Travaglia - Bastard Operator from Hell 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever: Vorn
Simon Travaglia
Bastard Operator from Hell 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever
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Simon Travaglia - Bastard Operator from Hell 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever: Hinten
Simon Travaglia
Bastard Operator from Hell 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever
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AutorSimon Travaglia
Spracheenglisch
BuchtypKurzgeschichten
Auflage2
Jahr2005-08, Erstausgabe: 2003
BuchformatTaschenbuch
SerieBOfH 4
GenreHumor
Seiten146
Preis12.95 US-Dollar
ISBN1-929462-63-8, ISBN13: 978-1-929462-63-6
VerlagPlan Nine Publishing
Inhalt
5: A Sacks Just a Sac For All That
9: The BOfH Engages In A Joint Anglo-American Operation
13: The Bastard Adds a Few Entries to the Bastard's Bible
17: The PFY Is In Danger of Becoming a Geek, but the Bastard Has a Remedy
21: While the PFY's in Therapy, the Bastard Must Hold the Fort by Burning It Down
25: The Bastard Explains Management Theory to the PFY, and the Boss Takes It In the 'nads
29: The Lager Fund's in Danger, So the Bastard Orders Up a Pizza and X-Ray
33: The Bastard and the PFY Break in a New Contract Programmer, and He Lives
37: Needing a Rest, the Boss Leaves His Personal Assistant to Handle the Bastard, But Dr. Bastard Handles the Boss
41: The Games the Thing by Which the Bastard Will Humiliate a Boss.
45: Fixing the Y2K Problem is a Breeze Compared to Getting Rid of an Unwanted Boss, But the Bastard Manages
49: Faced With a Nosey Safety Consultant, the Bastard Arranges a Junket to Ohio by Way of South America
53: Bored, the Bastard Works the Helldesk and Scores a Trifecta
57: Time for the Annual Robo-Wars, and the Bastard Cuts the Gordian Knot By Flattening the Walls
61: The BOfH Discovers a New Ally on the Help Desk, and It Seem That Wales Is In for a Rough Time
65: It's Pay Raises and Lager When the Bastard and the Stockholders Meet and Give the Boss a Unique Send Off
69: The Building Owners Want to Repaint the Building, So the BOfH, the PFY and the Boss Help Decorate
74: The PFY Admires a Prototype Laptop, and the Telcomm Manager is MIA After Crossing the BOfH
77: The BOfH Helps the Staff With an Identity Crisis, While the PFY Drives a Wedge Between System Maintenance and the Boss
81: The Bastard Has Been Farming Out Spare Disk Space for Spare Cash, Thanks to an Inside Helper
85: Rage is All the Rage as the Bastard and the PFY Pit Their Psychosis Against the Boss' New Secretary.
89: Telecommuters Find That They Are Making Voluntary Contributions to the Beer Fund Every Time they Call In
93: The Accountants Try to Make the BOfH Accountable, But Only Succeed in Boosting the Beer Fund.
97: The BOfH and the PFY Have Lost Two Entire Days and Can't Remember What Happened. Was it An Alien Abduction or a Booze Up?
101: The Boss Tries to Burn the Bastard With a Docs Ploy, but He Should Have Known Better
105: Never try to BS a BOfH, It Is Not Only Futile, But Hazardous As Well
108: With a Little Help from a Beancounter, the BOfH Has Been Helping the Boss Increase His Credit Line
112: The New Head of Security Is a Problem and the New Boss is No Help. How Will the BOfH Get Out of This?
116: A Fellow Bastard Doesn't Have Cable, So Our Bastard Sets Procuring Some Extra Bandwidth
119: Blackmail is in the Air as the Bastard Decides to Take Advantage of the Company's New Free Therapy
123: The BOfH Decides to Depthcharge the Boss' Minesweeper Game and Acquire Some Spare Parts
127: After Complaints About the Bass Line, the BOfH Makes Sure the Boss Gets the Message Loud & Clear
131: Who's Nicking the BOfH's Kit? The Evidence Points to a New Bastard in Town.
134: A Bugged Office Warns the Bastard That the Ops Budget is in Peril from a DIY Cowboy
138: The Bastard Does Dickens and Does Him Hard
TitelBastard Operator from Hell II - Son of the Bastard
Simon Travaglia - Bastard Operator from Hell II - Son of the Bastard: Vorn
Simon Travaglia
Bastard Operator from Hell II - Son of the Bastard
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Simon Travaglia - Bastard Operator from Hell II - Son of the Bastard: Hinten
Simon Travaglia
Bastard Operator from Hell II - Son of the Bastard
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AutorSimon Travaglia
Spracheenglisch
BuchtypKurzgeschichten
Auflage1
Jahr2001-11
BuchformatTaschenbuch
SerieBOfH 2
GenreHumor
Seiten151
Preis12.95 US-Dollar
ISBN1-929462-40-9, ISBN13: 978-1-929462-40-7
VerlagPlan Nine Publishing
Inhalt
3: Abschnitt: About the Author
3: Abschnitt: About the Artist
5: Kommentar: Congratulations Once More Reader...
6: Looking for new challenges, or just more dosh, the BOFH risks it all in the agency shark pool.
10: A pay rise in his pocket, and admiring Pimply-Faced Youth Looking, the BOFH plays safe.
14: The Bastard suffers from some temporary telephone trouble.
18: A heated exchange with the boss over air conditioning raises temperatures all round.
22: The BOFH becomes a contract killer as he undoes some damage caused by the boss.
26: As The BOFH explains, "Dummies don't grow on trees, it takes years of training."
30: The Bastard's writing regresses to childlike scrawls as he attempts some artistic expenses.
34: The Bastard puts a price tag on user access after a particularly annoying request.
39: The Bastard puts in a day on the Help Desk.
43: The Bastard and his pimply sidekick spread their network of misery across the land.
46: Trains, planes and the dreaded laptop spotter - the BOFH brings the anoraks back to earth.
50: Fear of a compulsory team-building weekend spurs the BOFH into his own style of teamwork.
54: Point scoring over network equipment blunders sees the PFY battling it out with the BOFH.
59: Battle vibes pulsate as Beancounter Central takes vehement action against the network lads.
63: As the boss gets in a twist about cat 5 cables, the BOFH bides his time to unravel the mess.
67: Rule one of setting up a network: Don't Let the boss use his 'initiative' and set oneup himself.
71: Infiltration of the e-mail system provokes the BOFH to adulterate the Yellow Pages.
75: Money is exchanged as the Bastard engages in some very underhand practices.
79: Ever tempted to play computer games at work? The BOFH sets out to spoil all the fun.
84: As encryption is forced on the Bastard, he plots to give the Boss more of a shock than ever.
88: Where do you find a new Pimply-Faced-Youth when you want one? It's a challenge, but...
92: Just how do you get round that tricky visit from the auditors? The BOFH has a few ideas.
96: The BOFH's in the mood for a little light fraud, but how to get rid of the boss? Easy-peasy!
100: The Chief Beancounter has a half-baked plan to oust the Bastard and his sidekick. What a very foolish thing to attempt.
103: Someone's found out where the 'liberated' phones go. Dial 'B' for Bastard.
107: The boss cooks his goose with a dodgy microwave dish as the Batsrad out-manoeuveres him yet again.
110: Hungover, roped in to cover the Hell Desk - if he wasn't the Bastard, this could be a bad day.
114: The BOFH comes face to face with the ultimate in office bureaucracy and he just won't war it.
118: The BOFH is in trouble for not turning up to his training course.
122: The BOFH and PFY go on some site visits.
125: The BOFH and PFY help sort out a rival's PSIC problems.
129: The BOFH wins an award from his peer group.
132: It really hits the fan as the tables turn inside the walls of Computer Central.
136: The Bastard puts his newest protege through a rather nasty baptism and sees him blossom.
140: Who said management was easy? Still, there's nothing that can't be sorted out with an axe.
144: Not quite the smell of Napalm in the morning, but a burnt server gets things off to a good start.
148: It's show time, folks, and the Bastard goes along to do some, err... research on the latest kit.
TitelBastard Operator from Hell Version 1.0
Simon Travaglia - Bastard Operator from Hell Version 1.0: Vorn
Simon Travaglia
Bastard Operator from Hell Version 1.0
Vorn:
Simon Travaglia - Bastard Operator from Hell Version 1.0: Hinten
Simon Travaglia
Bastard Operator from Hell Version 1.0
Hinten:
AutorSimon Travaglia
Spracheenglisch
BuchtypKurzgeschichten
Auflage1
Jahr2001-03
BuchformatTaschenbuch
SerieBOfH 1
GenreHumor
Seiten160
Preis12.95 US-Dollar
ISBN1-929462-17-4, ISBN13: 978-1-929462-17-9
VerlagPlan Nine Publishing
Inhalt
3: Abschnitt: Dedication
4: Abschnitt: About the Author
4: Abschnitt: About the Artist
5: Birth of a Bastard
9: A Bastard to the Core
11: Never Annoy a Bastard
15: The Bastard Virus from Hell
18: Helps Out
21: The Bastard Is In
24: The Bastard in the Dark
27: The Solar-Powered Bastard
30: Bank on The Bastard
34: Buggered by The Bastard
37: The Bastard is very Helpful...
40: The Bastard and Higher Education
44: The Bastard Lives!
47: The Bastard Holds the Power
51: The Bastard gets a promotion
55: Interlude: The Bastard System Manager from Hell
58: The Bastard's Recruitment Plan
60: The BOfH Rides Again
65: The Bastard versus The Secretary
71: Interlude: The Bastard Operator from Britain
76: The Secure Bastard
81: The Last Bastard Operator from Hell!
86: Still a Bastard
90: The Bastard's Dull Day
91: The Bastard Goes to the Trade Show
94: THE BASTARD IS STILL ABOUT!
99: The Bastard celebrrates Christmas '95
103: The Bastard Operator from Hell - The '95 Vintage
104: The Bastard Operator from Hell is Back
108: The Bastard Trips Up
111: The Bastard Gives Advice
115: The Bastard gets non-PC
119: The Bastard on a Devilish Buying Mission
123: The Bastard Wreaks His Terrible Revenge.
130: The Bastard Establishes His Territorial Boundaries
134: The Bastard Negotiates Around "Budget Constraints"
138: The Bastard Dislikes His Boss's Usage of Foul Language
143: The Bastard Blasts the Confidence of the Most Well-Meaning Souls
146: The Bastard Maintains His Level of Bad Taste and Seeks Sweet Revenge
149: The Bastard Gets His Retaliation in First
152: The Bastard Finds a New Use for an Electric Wheelchair
156: The Bastard Spreads Peace and Goodwill Among Colleagues
TitelBride of the Bastard Operator from Hell
Simon Travaglia - Bride of the Bastard Operator from Hell: Vorn
Simon Travaglia
Bride of the Bastard Operator from Hell
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Simon Travaglia - Bride of the Bastard Operator from Hell: Hinten
Simon Travaglia
Bride of the Bastard Operator from Hell
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AutorSimon Travaglia
Spracheenglisch
BuchtypKurzgeschichten
Auflage1
Jahr2002-03
BuchformatTaschenbuch
SerieBOfH 3
GenreHumor
Seiten159
Preis12.95 US-Dollar
ISBN1-929462-48-4, ISBN13: 978-1-929462-48-3
VerlagPlan Nine Publishing
Inhalt
5: The Bastard tries his hand at movie-making
10: Even PFYs get the blues
14: The Bastard brings lost sheep back into the fold
18: The Bastard and the PFY help review safety policy
22: War is hell, especially if you are fighting The Bastard
26: The PFY scores high marks on his BOFH exam
31: The Bastard takes a lesson in how to be a happy IT manager. The horror, the horror...
35: The Bastard helps with a server upgrade
39: The Trade Show Season and a BOFH's fancy turns to scheming
44: The PY in the soup, the BOFH to the rescue
48: The Bastard persuades the Boss of the need for a wireless solution
52: The PFY is racking up complaints and The Bastard is called on to investigate
56: Trying to out-bastard The Bastard, the Boss becomes a victim of "Plan A"
60: The Bastard reaches a new generation how to handle management
64: The PFY starts to go soft until The Bastard takes some stern measures.
68: The Bastard may have overreached, but the PFY has a plan
73: Besieged by a pack of consultants, The Bastard puts them to work scratching an itch.
77: The Bastard runs afoul of the Caff Staff and gives them a better target
81: The Boss heads for Tonga, but his replacement gives the Bastard pause
85: The new Boss is a babe in the woods and The Bastard must take matters in hand
89: Even on a well-deserved holiday, The Bastard's work is never done
93: When The Bastard's away, the replacement will get toasted.
97: The purchasing department gets on The Bastard's bad side, making him a tad vindictive
101: It's simple accounting and the BOFH explains it all to the Boss
108: The Bastard's Christmas spirit makes the Boss burning mad
112: The Bastard shows his compassionate side
116: Elementary, my dear Watson, The Bastard is afoot
120: The Boss is absorbed with his mid-life crisis, so The Bastard breaks out the chaingun
124: R. Amchip buys the farm, and The Bastard buys a pint to celebrate
129: The Bastard suggests a team building outing and The Boss fails to see the trap
133: Inventory time has the auditors out in force & The BOFH on the defensive
137: The Bastard goes overboard with the 'kill' command, and the company is awash in drunken scotsmen
142: Forced to press the flesh with users, The Bastard helps one, while helping himself to a nice bird and some dosh
147: With the users away, The Bastard must find other amusements
151: The PFY gets a lesson in dealing with management decisions
155: It might be moving day, unless The BOFH can find a way to foil powers on high. Is there really a doubt?