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[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

I work as an "ICT Support Specialist" in a secondary school (ages 11-18) in west London. Because we have a finite amount of IT rooms, we operate a room booking system, which previously has just been a sheet in the staff room that some poor bugger has had to type up on a weekly basis. We've recently changed this, and I spent hours setting up a week by week spreadsheet in Excel that all teachers have access to. I've just picked up a note that someone left in our tray in the staffroom that says "Looking at the spreadsheet it only shows rooms available on Mondays. I need tooms on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays!"

I'm torn between making this teacher feel like an idiot and telling her to scroll to the right (common sense dictates you at least try that, surely?) and replying saying "No, you can only have a room on a Monday". I think the former. This time.

Comments

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Either way is equally humiliating. Personally I'd be perfectly satisfied with either one.

[blackrat.livejournal.com]

How about "People who don't scroll to the right may only choose mondays"? ;-)

[agentz.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know exactly what you mean - your job sounds identical to the one I used to have before I moved over to central support services with my local authority. Teachers are *supposed* to be intelligent, aren't they? Hell, it'd probably be better just to let some kid do the room bookings on their behalf....

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

Excel sucks.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

I went for the former and told her to come and see me to book the rooms. Whether or not I point and laugh when she does remains to be seen :)

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Now there's a thought... :)

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Teachers are supposed to be the clever ones, yeah. The stupid thing is we had to change the way they booked the rooms from being entirely paper based because certain of them were crossing out other teachers bookings and then denying all knowledge. I swear, some of them are worse than the bloody kids!

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Yes, but we have to keep it simple for the idiot teachers.