His officemate was Steve Ballmer, who had graduated from Harvard the year before Immelt had graduated from Dartmouth. “We had Formica desks that touched each other, and we would play paper-wad basketball every day,” Immelt remembered. “We were complete fuckwads. That’s the best way to say it.” He said Ballmer was a blast. “We’re like a Dilbert cartoon,” he said. “Both of us were incorrigible malcontents. I wasn’t ready to be a grown-up. I was partying at night. We had great fun wearing Depends to work” at the office.
