pete10141748
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Morning all, damn cold here today 
and my day has been crap so far.
Had a panicked call from one of the reception staff at 7.30am saying "help! the server is down, we can't print todays registers etc etc" (for those who don't know I'm the school's ICT/Network Manager) so even though I'm not due in until 8.45am I rush down here to help out, only to find that the stupid c0w has plugged a USB light-up mini Xmas tree into the back of her PC, and in doing so removed her network cable as "it got in the way when I was trying to plug my tree in...... didn't think it mattered....."
So it was barely 8am and I'd already had a) the most stupid and irritating helpdesk call of my life so far, and b) the biggest "go" at someone I've ever had (and I'm fully expecting a formal complaint to be made in my direction for some of my phrases such as "the PC doesn't belong to you, it's the schools, you've no business sticking any of your personal little Xmas crap into it, and in future, leave the wiring the hell alone!!!!" )
I'm not usually a rude person but by God she's make me angry this morning )
Then I'm called to fix the photocopier, and while I have my hands inside the machine some TA trys to use it (thankfully I always power it off first) then says "oh, its not on" to me, WHILE MY HANDS ARE STILL INSIDE THE FRICKING THING.
20 minutes after that, I'm sat back here, the Deputy Head walks in, asks me something, walks back out and TURNS OFF MY OFFICE LIGHTS AS SHE LEAVES. Now why the HELL would you do that? God I was fuming by this point!!!!!
To top that off my colleague isn't here *again*, so once again I'm stuck doing the work of two people, plus all the other crap I have to put up with around this place.
Speaking of which, here's some of my "Choice Picks" for things I've been asked to do this year;
"I have a new pupil coming into my class. He doesn't speak much english, so can you please translate these worksheets into Chinese for nest Monday?"
When I asked her what made her think I knew Chinese she just said "You're good with computers, make the computer do it"
*slaps forehead*
Ahhh, feeling better now.
And Awwwww, just as I finsihed typing this, one of the pupils came in and has given me a christmas card that reads
"TO Mr Computer Guy, Thank You for fixing our teachers laptop so much this year, you help us to learn. Merry Christmas"
I think my heart just melted a little :wave_cry:
and my day has been crap so far.Had a panicked call from one of the reception staff at 7.30am saying "help! the server is down, we can't print todays registers etc etc" (for those who don't know I'm the school's ICT/Network Manager) so even though I'm not due in until 8.45am I rush down here to help out, only to find that the stupid c0w has plugged a USB light-up mini Xmas tree into the back of her PC, and in doing so removed her network cable as "it got in the way when I was trying to plug my tree in...... didn't think it mattered....."
So it was barely 8am and I'd already had a) the most stupid and irritating helpdesk call of my life so far, and b) the biggest "go" at someone I've ever had (and I'm fully expecting a formal complaint to be made in my direction for some of my phrases such as "the PC doesn't belong to you, it's the schools, you've no business sticking any of your personal little Xmas crap into it, and in future, leave the wiring the hell alone!!!!" )
I'm not usually a rude person but by God she's make me angry this morning
)Then I'm called to fix the photocopier, and while I have my hands inside the machine some TA trys to use it (thankfully I always power it off first) then says "oh, its not on" to me, WHILE MY HANDS ARE STILL INSIDE THE FRICKING THING.
20 minutes after that, I'm sat back here, the Deputy Head walks in, asks me something, walks back out and TURNS OFF MY OFFICE LIGHTS AS SHE LEAVES. Now why the HELL would you do that? God I was fuming by this point!!!!!
To top that off my colleague isn't here *again*, so once again I'm stuck doing the work of two people, plus all the other crap I have to put up with around this place.
Speaking of which, here's some of my "Choice Picks" for things I've been asked to do this year;
- I was asked "as X (the site agent) is at his other school for the afternoon, could you unblock one of the boy's toilets? they've put paper towels down it......" HELL NO.
- Do you know how to put up shelving? Yes, but I'm not insured for work puposes!
- My car won't start, will you take a look? I know sod-all about cars! "But.... you're a guy?" was the response.
- In the middle of me trying to fix the photocopier (so half-inside the thing, covered in inky blotches, paper everywhere etc.) a TA walks over and says "X needs something printing, can you do it for her?" No words to describe this one, just pure idiocy.
"I have a new pupil coming into my class. He doesn't speak much english, so can you please translate these worksheets into Chinese for nest Monday?"
When I asked her what made her think I knew Chinese she just said "You're good with computers, make the computer do it"
*slaps forehead*
Ahhh, feeling better now.
And Awwwww, just as I finsihed typing this, one of the pupils came in and has given me a christmas card that reads
"TO Mr Computer Guy, Thank You for fixing our teachers laptop so much this year, you help us to learn. Merry Christmas"
I think my heart just melted a little :wave_cry:
