Only the Best

The Systems team members think they aren't getting the recognition they deserve, so they printed themselves an award. It said "Certificate of Award for Best IPT - IPT 2 - Systems" and they put it in the hall where everyone walked by it multiple times every day.

An IPT is an Independent Program Team, and our project has 10 of them. I work in the Integration and Test IPT.

Obviously, this situation could not last. One night while working late, Steve snuck the award to the scanner and then created an identical award with our IPT's name on it. Then he put "our" award up where the other one used to be.

When the systems engineers finally saw the altered award, they tried to get us to tell them how long it had been up. It had only been 2 weeks, but they firmly believe that they proudly flaunted this tribute to the Integration and Test for months on end.

Ahhh...the sweet feeling of turning their need for recognition against them.