Fine Young Idiot?

An IT manager has two star software engineers who are each "highly intelligent, highly egotistical and highly critical of the projects the other was working on," he says.

"I came up with the idea of having them work on the same project because it was complex, they were skilled -- and it would be difficult for them to criticize their own project."

The new team gets off to a rocky start, but together the two come up with a brilliant design. "They still had some pretty heated meetings," says fish, "but they were making progress."

Until one morning, when the younger engineer storms into the managers office and throws a note on his desk."

Fish picks up the note and reads: "FYI, I rebuilt the database last night." It's signed by the older engineer.

The younger engineer yells, "I KNOW what F-Y means -- what does 'I' mean?"

Fish calmly responds, "I think it means 'For Your Information.' What do you think it means?"

The engineer stares at the manager for a moment. "Then he hung his head and crawled out of my office," says the manager.

"They worked really well together after that."

- True story?