Weirdest thing you’ve ever been asked for by a staff/student in an IT office?

[tazz]

Have you got any plastic wallets to put our coursework in? Answer: Actually yes we do!

[nikaso]

Deputy Head: "Are you any good with heights?"

Me: "Err....I suppose so?"

Cue spending the next half an hour clambering around the roof of a school building taking photos of holes that had been left by some cowboy contractors.

[solitaire89]

Just had a great one...

VIth Form girl comes to office, bright red, and her mate asks if I can help her, as the aforementioned red faced girl goes even redder and protests loudly - "you can't ask her!!!"

me: "Depends on the problem"

Girl: "I can't get my belly button bar out, and wanted to know if you'd have any ideas"

I've never laughed so much!

[ICT_GUY]

Fixed a water pistol today for the year 6 teacher, involved the old cotton wrap and super glue binding. He managed to break the rest of the gun before the fix gave in.

[Duane_Dibbley]

No chance! I did help rescue the bat though. He was trapped under a pipe, bless.

 

Shouldn't have done really...need a licence to handle bats in the UK due to rabies.

[Duane_Dibbley]

Deputy Head: "Are you any good with heights?"

Me: "Err....I suppose so?"

Cue spending the next half an hour clambering around the roof of a school building taking photos of holes that had been left by some cowboy contractors.

 

Sounds almost like my ideal afternoon . If there were trees involved then perfect. Any1 know how u get to be a tree surgeon?

[enjay]

Any1 know how u get to be a tree surgeon?

 

Bored of IT and trying to branch out?

[tech_guy]

Groan.........

[sparkeh]

Bored of IT and trying to branch out?

 

You're barking up the wrong tree.

[alan-d]

I agree - you need to get to the root of the problem!

[sparkeh]

Bored of IT and trying to branch out?

 

He wants to turn over a new leaf.

[enjay]

You're barking up the wrong tree.

 

Oh leaf me alone....

[LosOjos]

Not so much weird but I was asked if I'm the new head teacher. I was 21 at the time.

[Rydra]

"Can you fix my computer?"

[Arcath]

"Can you fix my computer?"

 

Surely not!

 

I get a few staff members brining in home PCs and i usually fix them or give it back with a technical diagnosis of the problem for them to take to the local computer repair place (just because id rather not get into supplying parts or voiding warranties)

[john]

Have you got any plastic wallets to put our coursework in? Answer: Actually yes we do!

 

Strange that, I was asked for treasury tags yesterday, to which I had to say no I don't have them as I really don't! Staples and Hole Punches yes oh and paper clips but no tags

 

I was asked last year if I was the new Site Manager by a visitor as I was wearing an old scruffy t-shirt and my work wear trousers, when I enlightened him that I was the IT Manager and currently was wiring up a new conversion in our building he then said I'm X your new teacher and I wanted to meet you at times like that I should have just been the Site Manager!

[tmcd35]

Was once asked for some super glue......So a kid could re-attatch the sole to his shoe!

[tmcd35]

Fixed a water pistol today for the year 6 teacher.

 

Okay, I'm in the wrong job! Not sure I could get away with bringing my Super Soka 5000 to work

[mac_shinobi]

Okay, I'm in the wrong job! Not sure I could get away with bringing my Super Soka 5000 to work

 

I was thinking that and reminded me of when I worked in edu a while back - I fixed a PS 2 as the power connectors werent soldered on properly to the pcb and they had some funky material that made it very difficult to solder anything to the pcb but i got it re soldered and worked fine even after being knocked etc

[laserblazer]

I was asked to sew up a kid's trousers that had split at the crotch. I gave him a couple of safety pins.

[featured_spectre]

I have been asked for the following items by some kids who were sent by teachers.

 

10ft of Fallopian tube

skirting board ladder

sky hooks

glass hammer

reverse thread screws

long weights

left handed screwdriver

holes from a hole punch

and some rainbow paint.

 

Some people clearly enjoy wasting time!!!

[tazz]

Ring Ring - "Can you recommend a hairdressers in 'such and such a town'?" (such and such a town, where I live, on the 2nd day of term when all hell has broken loose!!!!!)

[rad]

"I need a really BIG favour" said one member of staff entering my office.

Can you take a student to the toilet, the ones nearby are locked and the year 7 student doesn't know where the next nearest toilets are.

 

Off I go to said locked toilet, pull out the master key I have, unlock it and then lock the door once the student has left the toilets. The advantages of being an ICT tech, keys to everywhere!

[tazz]

Student: Do you know where I can find a Biology Book?

Me: The Library?

[TheSingUpTeam]

Had a teacher ask if I could defraggle their PC!

 

Andrew

 

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