FN-GM Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 I am a little board and I can’t sleep because its warm tonight so I thought I would post this. What jobs do you hate doing at work? I hate sorting out Printer & Projectors, anything else I don’t mind doing.
pooley Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Cleaning projector filters & tidying cables are probably my 2 worst jobs
amfony Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 changing printer toners -- our campus at its longest is about 1km wide so ... yeah .. i need a monorail or tram or something!
mac_shinobi Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 getting printers that have the print servers attached to them like those parallel to rj45 type ones that keep going down or not working and need a power cycle to work and changing toners. As for the size of the place would be nice to have a quad bike to get around. I quite enjoy the projector stuff like cleaning the filters, changing the bulbs etc its just taking them down and putting them back up thats the PITA for me. They just re arranged the rooms and had to mount a whole bunch of multi way ( power strips or whatever you call them ) to the back of each desk - that takes patience lol
srochford Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Upgrading rubbish software! Best not name them here (some companies don't like users who complain about their software) but we use two different pieces of admin software both of which have rubbish update processes. Essentially, they are both SQL databases with a front end. All the updates do is to copy in some new files, delete old ones and make changes to the SQL database tables. That ought to be straightforward but it rarely is. Each package uses 2-3 different ways of making changes to the SQL tables, none of them is properly automated (which is why I started work very early this morning so that I could try and get the wretched thing finished!)
iatkinson Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Dealing with the laptops for students that we got in under some government scheme. Initially told wouldn't cut into our time at all so why've I got nearly 40 due back in my store to be cleaned and re-imaged. From the hideously scratched restore DVD's the company supplied 1
el8linuxel8 Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Anything to do with quicktime, flash etc. Pressing the source button on projectors!
joe90bass Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Adding new items to the asset register (I always forget), agree with gecko - print servers that need power cycling (AAARGHH!!) and anything to do with laptops/wireless
Quackers Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Walking to the other side of the school to flick a teachers wireless button to on.
ahuxham Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Network not working, or no power. Only to walk around half the school and find out, that the RJ45 cable is unplugged, or the power button wasn't pressed. I don't have time for people that cant even troubleshoot themselves, even after being shown how.
SteveB_NI Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Probably my constant requirement to push a laptop trolley (or quite often 2 in quick succession of each other if booked in 2 different places at same time).... I quite often find my day is like this: Period 1 - Move trolley 1 & 2 Period 2 - Move trolley 1 Period 3 - Move trolley 2 Period 4 - Move trolley 1 Period 5 + 6 - Charging (thank goodness!) etc etc. Pain! Another thing that I don't like is being approached by teachers to do photocopying, or complaining about it not being done - it's not really my job, I'm an ICT Technician, but I often get confused by staff as being a reprographics technician!
dezt Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Cleaning projector filters, switching on monitors for teachers that can't figure out why the "tele bit" isn't working as someone said to me today.
SteveBentley Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Anything involving printers rarely turns out to be a good thing. Cleaning keyboards is a bit tedious too.
tomscaper Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Tidying laptop trolley every week after students have made a complete mess of it, untangling 30 power packs does my head in. I hate going all the way down stairs to fix printers when there out of paper.
Sirbendy Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 software installation in curriculum support - poky, 2 bit joke programs that they bought without consulting us, that don't run well, that they never end up using, that aren't part of our image, that require daemon tools etc to run and make re-imaging an arse. Projector mounting and unmounting. The rest I quite like..wifi is fun. Printers are a doddle..we never have print server issues (all Jetdirects)..hardware is fun. Oh wait...I HATE the audit. Yes, I almost forgot that. I write guides for all the other bits and hand them out as needs be...buggered if I'm going to press "Source select" for a teacher...they learn or they get ignored. Had enough of that piddling around. Like DVD playback using heavily scratched DVDs and hearing "Oh, well it WAS working.." We're weaning the overpaid fools off the bum wiping reliance. We won't have time for it soon with setting up the new site and infrastructure.
DaveJ2717uk Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Walking to the far side of the school because you've been informed that a computer wont boot only to find the F***ing teacher has her USB pen in and the PC is trying it's best to boot from that.:mad:
FN-GM Posted June 10, 2008 Author Posted June 10, 2008 Walking to the far side of the school because you've been informed that a computer wont boot only to find the F***ing teacher has her USB pen in and the PC is trying it's best to boot from that.:mad: We get that the odd time. Another pain is changing keyboards on a room of computers!
elsiegee40 Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Projectors and cabling You can't do either without getting filthy and it always seems to be on a hot day or in hot room when there's no prospect of a shower for several hours!
Stuart_C Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Any sentence that starts with the words "I'm in Excel/Word/Powerpoint/Oultook, how do I" and includes the phrase "I thought it would be quicker to get you to do it than look in the Help and Google" really get on my nerves.
farmerste Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 1. sending inferior equipment back for repair under warranty, i.e laptops, umpcs's 2, sorting out bad software that i said would be bad before we bought it ! 3, continuos battle to make windoze user friendly for children . 4, trying not to sound carcastic when i state the obvious for the nth time 5, the annual hardware audit
Stuart_C Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 1 4, trying not to sound carcastic when i state the obvious for the nth time ( Does that mean you shouldn't do that?
alena Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Cleaning projector filters, power cycling of laptops and dealing with kids - sorry I mean teachers!
OutToLunch Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Bloody projectors You get much splatter on yours? Must be quite the scrappy school
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