Network vs. Signal

My buddy Dave is on the Network line, I'm in Signal. Our groups don't hate each other or anything, and we work on completely different test instruments. We don't have any opportunity for direct rivalry or competition but we also don't interact much. You're pretty much isolated to the products you work on and for the most part only socialize with the people in your area. Outside of that, each product line is sort of it's own little world. Here at Bill and Dave's company we happen to have a super fast network for data transfer from building to building, and site to site, worldwide. Nobody ever uses it for anything fun. At least not that I'm aware of.

A new game from ID Software came out recently called Quake 2. The shareware demo has multiplayer capability and we have snuck it onto a half dozen of our PCs up here in Signal like it's some sort of crime. The Network guys have got the okay from their boss to screw around playing Quake 2 as long as it's on their breaks or they're off work for the evening. Up here in Signal we haven't bothered to find out if it's cool with the powers that be mainly because Squirmy probably won't be down with it. We're just loading it up and playing. It's been a blast. Late at night before some of us head home we hop on and brawl against the Network guys. Dave and his crew have pretty much handed our asses to us consistently. It's still a good time. I don't have anything to do after work anymore. Nothing going on at home and nobody to go home to, so it's really the only thing I look forward to each evening before leaving work.