About 20.000 dollars.

This story takes place over a few years.

cast: BossA1 and A2, and BossB, BuildingA and B, CompanyA and B. And me from companyA.

Many years ago it was decided to sort out a mess with staff, owners and buildings.

You see the staff in buildingB was working for companyA while BossB was working for companyB in buildingB. We were going to sort a to a and b to b.

Because of legal things BossB could not go back to the old analog way of archiving mail and letters, after companyA had gone digital. It was too expensive and completely unrealistic that companyB could house their own servers in buildingB.

So it was to be that companyB was going to pay companyA for use of dark fiber. BuildingB had dark fiber from A, it was up to me to set the price of it, included was a bit extra for those one minute jobs that is not really worth sending an extra bill for. I gave the numbers to BossA1 and forgot about/ignored it.

BossA1 went into retirement with A2 replacing him. Company A and B where still not completely separated at this point and there was minimal tech support needed a few AP that needed resetting, a printer in a GPO. This was covered in the small extra money they paid for internet.

Then they wanted some new laptops, finally something big enough to care sending a bill. I set them up and went to BossA2 and asked to add four laptops pluss time to set them up to the usual bill we were sending them.

BossA2 could not find a trace of anything about internet or an agreement with companyB.

And that is how someone paid 200.000 NOK for a couple of laptops (and use of our fiber for a few years)