Resolving the line manager problem

"...., so he told his manager that he would start reporting to me. She
didn't ask who I was and let him keep his office and badge. In turn, I
told people that I was reporting to him. Since that left no managers in
the loop, we had no meetings and could be extremely productive."

Ron Avitzur gives a personal and funny account of his time working at and in, rather than for, Apple developing graphing calculator software. A transcript of the talk, which puts its finger on the way that the rules of the workplace get subverted, but Avitzur's 2004 version of the same events comes pretty close.