BOFH?
If he did it then he's stupid - and if they had a network that allowed this to happen then they are even more stupid. It sounds like a bunch of amateurs playing at being system administrators - maybe someone at El Reg can persuade Simon to show us all how to do this properly.
The issue for the BOFH of course is that the Allegro MicroSystems building is only a two story building so the drop from the upper floor is not far enough to do any real damage.