Query: Support staff & teaching staff relationship

[Midget]

There's very much a two tier attitude here, and often you're lucky if people actually remmeber your name, rather than just addressing you as 'the Techie' or 'The technician'

 

You should demand they call you "Sir"

 

"Sir, you're fat bald lazy techy SAH!"

[localzuk]

The general relationship here is good. There are a few issues that need working out, such as a general feeling that when someone bumps into me I have the time then and there to fix their problem but other than that it is fine.

 

I do occasionally eat in the staff room - when I want to get away from the kids, and times when I want to get away from staff I go home - I live a couple of minutes from school.

[JoeyH]

I generally do not eat lunch in the staff rooms. I've found that whenever I eat in a staff room, everyone there has a computer question. I don't mind helping people with their computers, as that's what I'm there to do, but it gets annoying when it takes forty five minutes to each lunch because I have to answer a question in between each bite. Instead I normally just eat lunch in the tech office.

[gaz350]

Our office is huge! Used to be the staff room. The staffroom is now in what I would call a small classroom on the ground floor, seems to get used alot more since. I generally make the effort to have lunch in the staffroom(no food policy at desks) so it's the only quietish place to eat.

 

Unless it's been impossible to have split lunches amongst the team then like others a polite reminder to staff and a gentle nudge in the direction of itsupport helpdesk. Most staff respect our lunch but it's taken 2 years to get it like it is.

 

Although I always seem to end up having heated discussions with lazy staff who hate changes that have been implemented by slt. They pay your wages, if you don't like it find another job! Your lucky to have one!