The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training

Who, Me? Welcome to Monday and another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes and reveal if they derailed your career.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Kerry” who way back in 1996, when he was still in High School, scored an internship at what he described as “a large tech company.”

Kerry and another intern were put to work in a “build lab” where the company created one of its software products.

As Kerry watched and learned how the software sausage is made, a new hard drive arrived in the lab for testing. Kerry and his junior colleague got the job.

“The hard drive had enormous capacity for the time, maybe two whole gigabytes,” Kerry told Who, Me? All he knew was that it must be very, very expensive.

To test the disk, Kerry needed to ...