Moving Equipment and Deliveries

[localzuk]

If the Head Teacher were to go around litter picking all day you may question the logic. There is a point where it'd be bad practice for anyone to undertake much work below their pay grade or specialism.

 

Our head *does* do that. Specificially because he leads by example. If people see him doing it, they do it to. And our school stays spotless because of it. If we move boxes ourselves, others do the same, and things move a lot smoother.

[Sirbendy]

On the grand scale of it, I'm not qualified. Heh. From 9-32 years I've used an awful lot of kit, helped an awful lot of people, gained an awful lot of experience and skills..

 

Qualifications wise, I got my GCSE's, my BTEC in IT, and my Cisco A+. People call me "clever"..I don't think I am. I can do cars, electronics, electrics, most "hands on" things I can work through without a manual..PCs are a doddle, but if you put me in to do the site teams job, I'd be lost.

[Oops_my_bad]

Or you could just get a bunch of kids to do it

[Andrew_C]

Or you could just get a bunch of kids to do it

You've got kids who have been trained in manual handling? Our Porters used to punish by using kids for fetching and carrying, but had to stop when this lack of "training" was spotted.

[Edu-IT]

What do you do at times when you get asked to do other jobs which you're overqualified to do? Pass them on?

[kmount]

You need to be careful when you get kids to carry anything because of just that ... mind you, I've not had any manual lifting training!

[GrumbleDook]

At the risk of bringing up an old joke ate the expense of one of the former placement students (a self-professed blonde!) it is worth mentioning that at interview we talked about previous course she had been on ... she was quite happy to get involved with all of the lifting and moving when needed, and had even been on a man handling course ... she then realised what she had said and has taken any ribbing about it in good nature.

 

Then again, she has come close to man handling a few times ... usually wanting to throw particular members of staff out of the office!

 

@spuffmonkey: keep an eye on her ... the tell-tale signs are muttering under the breath, staring at the unfortunate soul until they start to worry .. and then random smiling to make them paranoid! Or was that what she used to do to me? hmmmmm ....

[boomam]

I'd not really thought about it until this thread. The site staff move all incoming boxes in the school (including heavy paper and stationery deliveries) but when IT gear comes we get a phone call from reception and collect it ourselves.

Same here.

All though im fairly confident that if i asked for some help they'd give it me. .

[rckngslnd]

Hi

 

Going open this up again, I also move boxes mostly with help from NM. We have a big delivery and the caretakers expect us to do all the heavy lifting. If it was a few pc etc, I wouldn't care but we have 322 new pc 100 monitors and 20 printers as well as all the old equipment to move to a location to be recycled. This is also a big problem as this going happen right in the middle of a Domain switch.

 

We have asked if we could arrange some help, but the only response we get from our line manager is he will deal with it when it happens. I for one would like some classification as this will happen in the summer where Caretakers with be busy as it is.