1 - I never had a check book.

...in the sense that I'm the odd one out - everybody else just uses Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. So whenever I have an opinion about how things should be, they just roll their eyes and go "well, of course you would say that!"

Honestly, the biggest problem I've experienced is that once your colleagues see the CLI on your screen, you are no longer eligible to hold opinions on computers, systems or solutions.

Hold your horses - NATO general secretary Mark Rütte has already said that he "wouldn't want to drag NATO into all this"... 🙄