A quickie

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

I went back to work yesterday after a couple of days off sick. I have to go through a classroom to get to my office, and as I was wandering through it, I spotted a note from one of our stupider teachers on one of the PCs. "Monitor won't turn on" A quick check, and the temptation to add to the bottom of the note "Did you try plugging it in?" is overwhelming.

The worrying thing is this guy was the Head of IT until very recently when he shifted most of his timetable back to physics

Comments

[rustymarble.livejournal.com]

You should have done it! *grin* You could always say a student must have written it.

[oggsmith.livejournal.com]

yeah, teachers sometimes are the most imbecilic of them all. my "boss" for tech support for IBM now librarian / my "boss" knows absolutely nothing. yesterday she comes to me saying i can't get this cd to work on any of the computers and i really want to install this program on these computers. one quick glance at the case for the program and i knew immediately what the issue was. CD-Roms won't read friggin DVD's. SHe couldn't grasp the fact. then she says well why is it a DVD do i need a DVD player and tv to use the program. head meet desk hard.

[jecook]

FWIW. My boss is an very old school programmer, and he has not done any sys admin tstuff in years.

Needless to say, for a long while (and least one long night at the main office) I was the sole person running the show.

At least he has a clue on computer maintainence, which helped immensly.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

When I was in high school, the faculty took pity on me and gave me one class period in my schedule to be an assistant to the person in charge of technology - the typing teacher. She had enough knowledge to keep the computers from being useless, but not a lot of high-level troubleshooting. So I would play with it, fix it if I could, and if I couldn't I would go ask my votech instructor and then come back and fix it. And I got passwords to everything :o)