A couple of gems from today....

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

The junior member of our department is only allowed to do the basics - answering the phone, resetting passwords etc. He's a nice enough kid, but common sense isn't one of his attributes.

- this morning, year 7 kid (aged 11-12) came in to reset her password. He let her set it to 12345. I made him reset it to something random so she has to come back and do it properly.

- shortly afterwards, another year 7 kid comes up to print some work. It's a photo. D opens the file in MS Photo Editor and hits print. Then he turns round and says to me "Jo, it opened the photo printing wizard".Er, yeah. It'll do that.

I wouldn't mind, but we've had both conversations soooooooooo many times. He's been doing the job 3 years now. You'd think he'd have something of a clue by now!

Comments

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Sec-Ed in the UK?

'Fraid so. It drives me nuts sometimes :)

Hello! *waves back*

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

West London and "ICT Support Specialist". You? :)

[hopefulnebula]

Tell him that 12345 is the kind of code an idiot would put on his luggage.

Then tell him that he needs to change the code on his luggage locks.

[mouse-from-marz.livejournal.com]

hey! that's the code on MY luggage!

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

You mean you get to know what your budget is? We just spend until we're told to stop because no-one will actually tell us!

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Spaceballs FTW!

[glassarchitect.livejournal.com]

win.

[spiker-uk.livejournal.com]

Higher-Ed in the UK is just as bad, just in subtly different ways.

Like:

September
Boss: Don't spend. We don't have money.

January
Boss: I looked at the budget -- why haven't you spent anything yet?

July 10th
Boss: Oh, I just increased your budget to £bignum to use up our hyooge surplus. Oh, and everything must be here and invoiced by July 24th.

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That's without the students and profs asking interesting who am I kidding, dumb questions.

Fortunately I am now a FREE being, having subjugated myself to an investment bank instead.

Hmm... that didn't quite come out right. :p