BOFH: Schrödinger's Petty Cash Puts Us in a Very Awkward Superposition
The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026
The BOFH battles petty cash bureaucracy with quantum physics metaphors and a staged laptop incident.
This BOFH episode follows the IT administrator's struggle with byzantine petty cash reimbursement procedures.
He endures excessive scrutiny from a junior accountant over receipt validity, then invokes Heisenberg uncertainty to manoeuvre the boss into signing the expense form after orchestrating a staged laptop incident.
Once approval is finally secured, the petty cash tin vanishes from a locked drawer, and Schrödinger's cat provides the metaphor needed to deflect any accountability for the missing funds.