Uh. My computer access is under evaluation at school

EyeMWing

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Uh. Okay. I was imaging some machines today at school and had a harddrive die on me. Mind you that I only have to freaking do this because IT was supposed to do it SIX FREAKING MONTHS AGO and didn't. A member of administration came into the room while I was bent over the computer disconnecting the drive to swap in a replacement (We stopped relying on IT to replace our broken stuff as well and just pull it out of the department budget. 6 months to replace a keyboard? TEH NOEZ).

Hell was promptly raised, and this vice principal fvcktard didn't want to hear a damn thing about it out of the department chair and the other two teachers in the department, who had been sitting right there watching me do it.

No written part of the 'telecommunications' policy was ever violated in this genius' presence - I was performing a teacher-authorized action on the computer, no passwords had been compromised (Well, not in his presence, anyway) and I was in no way having a negative effect on system or network functionality.

Great - knowing how this beauracracy works, I'm essentially screwed into failing every class mildly related to anything that I intend to do with my future. Your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen. IT departments that don't work, and students being punished for trying to help.
 

Be vengeful and destroy the entire network.
That should even the score with the other students.
 

dighn

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Originally posted by: Xionide
wtf are you rambling about i dont get it.

-xionide

makes sense to me


what a crock of shlt. hope they'll come to their senses eventually.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: SammySon
Be vengeful and destroy the entire network.
That should even the score with the other students.

Or I could just go change a few records and transcripts. You know, like, EVERYBODY'S. And then packet the VoIP phones in the office (GigE vs. 3 10mbit phones. Who wins?)

But that would be too much fun.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Millennium
Doesn't your slutty Girlfriend think you have a small pee-pee?

Yes. My life sucks lately. Karma for plotting to kill billions, perhaps?
 

Apathetic

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Ugh. I wish I could do something to help. All I can say is that there's NO WAY I could EVER go back to high school again. Too many morons with authority.

Dave
 

I assume this is in high school? If so you're screwed. Public school too boot? Man, you are now going to be somebodys b1tch in prison:Q.

Seriously though, suck as it may you should have just let IT do their job, even though they weren't doing it.

Live and learn.
 

GeekDrew

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Good grief. Mine must be the only decently functional high school in America.

I work in the IT department, district level... responsible for three schools (primarily - there are many other schools that our district runs part of their network for). If someone files a help desk ticket... we do it rather quickly (a week, at most).

And at least at my school, you would be suspended for 3 days, minimum, for tampering with school property. In most areas, teachers do not have the authority to permit anyone to change any computer components, configuration, or otherwise do anything besides typical 'end-user' work.

We don't let many people have authority in our district. But those of us who do, have quite a bit.
 

LongCoolMother

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dont even get me started on the IT staff at our high school. dont even. its ridiculous and intensely off-pi$$ing.
 

Gibson486

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Yeah, my schools internet went down one day and teh next day I come back from a class I find an envolope addressed to me in my room sliiped under teh door. The letter said i had to remove my computer from teh network and call my RESnet. You know what they tell me? My computer was responsible for crashing their whole network. I leave it there for a day only for them to tell me the next day that my computer wa snot resposible and that teh software that detects this stuff was faulty and made everythign point to my IP. However, they did not let me take my computer home. I started raising hell till they finally let me have my computer.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I assume this is in high school? If so you're screwed. Public school too boot? Man, you are now going to be somebodys b1tch in prison:Q.

Seriously though, suck as it may you should have just let IT do their job, even though they weren't doing it.

Live and learn.

I think I'll do a little investigation into private schooling options - my girlfriend goes to a Catholic school, and despite my not being the most religious person on earth - they like money and are generally reasonable people. Maybe I can trade a $10k/year tuition for my doing the jobs of 3 $60k/year IT turds. Of course, I'd have to get people to vouch for my skills, but that will be no problem considering the amount of work that I've done for the public school. Those bitches OWE me.

If not, I guess I'll figure somthing out - like a laptop to handle the computer courses.
 

ggavinmoss

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Hmm... adults that think they know everything or kids that think they know everything... choose your poison.

-geoff
 

LordMorpheus

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Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Hmm... adults that think they know everything or kids that think they know everything... choose your poison.

-geoff

except the kid actually knows a wee bit while that adult knows nothing.

I'm with the kid on this one.

At my HS, our IT dept. is made up of one man. The best way to describe him would be 'Jesus Christ.'

He is incredibly intelligent, able, and knows his stuff. Hes been in my language class four all four years (they let teachers take classes if they want them) and used to teach math . .

You hear rumors about him . . things like a class listening to teacher, dropdown celling panel is lifted up, he drops out of ceiling, replaces panel, and walks out of door without saying anything. I don't find it very hard to believe.


I guess we are just lucky, or maybe its just cause we are a Jesuit school.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Hmm... adults that think they know everything or kids that think they know everything... choose your poison.

-geoff

The kids. They tend to be closer to the mark nowadays. IT couldn't figure out why their Dell disk images wouldn't work on a computer that was not only not the same model, not even a Dell, but not even Intel-based. Real $60k/year work there! I learned that one before I even touched a screwdriver to open my first case.
 

amdskip

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At my old high school, we'd get in trouble for checking our email. It was crazy how they watched us.
 

TechnoKid

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Hmmmmm......my old highschools network is too vulnerable. They do not ever patch their systems. I tried to do it one day, but the librarian(oversees comps in the library) says I don't know what I'm doing, and says you can't do that.