Mess of a site

[Matt]

LMAO. That story reminds me of old timer friend who recently retired from McDonnell Douglas. He actually was forced into retirement a year or two early due to young new brass to the company looking to tighten up loose corners.

Turns out he had made some "yellow boxes' as he liked to call them, and he had been using these yellow boxes to perform his daily tasks for the last 30 years. From my recollection of the story, he made these yellow boxes in his garage and they helped rapidly diagnose where potential electrical problems were in the F-15 Eagle.

Upon his 'early" retirement, he took the yellow boxes home with him. After all, he invented them in his garage. They were his and they were one of the few things he could take with him to remember all the great years he had spent at his job building the F-15.

Sure enough, the day after he was laid off, some uppity lawyer was on the phone with him the next day demanding he return the yellow boxes. He didn't give them back, I belive the exact words he told the lady were not suitable for these forums.

About 6 months roll by and guess who is on the phone? McDonnell Douglas, and now they not only want him and his yellow boxes back, they want to give him the originally promised retirement, but to sweeten the deal he would now get a pay raise and other perks for the next year and a half to train the new stock of aircraft engineers how to use his little yellow boxes.

I think he definitely knew where to tap.