Deep background
It’s a long time ago, and this pilot fish’s job is to develop all the software to run a shareware business using Foxpro 2.6 for Windows. (We said it was a long time ago.) The software takes care of inventory and stocking of stores, printing labels for the disks and doing all other necessary tasks.
The owner of the business (we’ll call him Fred) is a reasonably astute businessman, but his acumen doesn’t extend to using computers — he once tried to sell fish’s software to another business without telling fish, but he ran afoul of fish’s built-in copy protection.
One day Fred calls fish and says that all the data is gone. Fish heads to the boss’s house wondering what on earth he could have done that would have deleted all the data. Once there, Fred claims he did nothing, but fish knows that data doesn’t just disappear all by itself, so he sits down at the computer and brings up his software.