Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules

Who, Me? The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Dillon,” who told us of a time he worked on the point-of-sale (POS) team for what he described as “my home city's most prominent retailer.”

“It was the kind of fancy store that had a classy steakhouse on the top floor, complete with a piano player and a bar – the kind of place where the city's movers and shakers went to move and shake,” he explained.

Some of those movers and shakers ran the local professional sporting team, and as Dillon tells it, they “threw perennial tantrums and threatened to leave town if we didn't build ...