Awwww the kids can be so cute sometimes!

[witch]

"Yes, despite the over-orange skin and quirky smile…and large purple baby grow…and odd hair…"

 

What DO you wear to work???

[solitaire89]

What DO you wear to work???

 

I must have been having a bad clothes day... Either that, or it was mufti day... I hope...

[witch]

Soooo..the cauli (cabbage?) in the pic is actually your hair?

[Tyiell]

Thank god, I thought it was just me who wears a large purple baby grow and yellow wig to work. Phew!!

[solitaire89]

Actually, the cauli (right first time) is to protect my underexposed skin from the sunlight....

 

And it's not a wig - my hair really looks like that

[solitaire89]

... if I forget to brush it in the morning

[Flakes]

i get called MR %surname% here, only one student has ever called me a geek, they ended up spending there lunch break cleaning computer monitors and arranging mice and keyboards in perfect orientation in a class of 30 computers under my supervision. ive had a spell of a bunch of year 11 students calling me "Hacker" or when ever there computer broke saying "have you been hacking my machine" i soon put a stop to that aswell.

[mdrabble]

I get called "Hi-Tech" being Network Manager and my technician gets called "Low-Tech" is if fairly amusing as I am 5' 8" and he is over 6'

[witch]

well, I look exactly like my avatar..maybe it's the hat that scares the kids off...

[sted]

well, I look exactly like my avatar..maybe it's the hat that scares the kids off...

 

more likely the spider

[witch]

What, Vladivostok? Nah - he is a lovely beast - all furry and cuddly.

(Yes, that is his name)

[Guest TheLibrarian]

I'm usually Sir or Mr. [surname].

 

One young lady decided to greet me by repeating Mr. [initial]. [surname] quite loudly - she was a character.

 

 

A few students know my forename, and to be honest I don't care if they use it - but the school do so I tell them to behave.

 

One student decided I looked like Peter Griffin from Family Guy, which is close I suppose but Mr. Griffin has more hair on his crown.

That was stamped on quickly - discrimination / work place bullying etc. - I'd rather have talked to him myself and politely let him know that I would push him through wall if he wasn't a student and if it really bothered me.

 

On a lighter note, after a sector by sector search of a floppy disk to get as much of a homework assignment back as possible, the young lad bought me a box of Quality Street.

I was quite touched.

 

 

Slightly OT: Some of the students call our server room Narnia...

[Rydra]

I'm Mr %surname most of the time, and get greeted by almost every child I pass in the corridor. I can be rather distracting to be honest!

 

But my last place of work, I was LUCKY if they referred to me as sir. Most of them didn't know my name at all, and referred to me as "Techie" (usually adorned with some other flowery name), or just stuck to calling me some colourful descriptive name none of which are repeatable here.

 

We quite happily nicknamed ourselves "the IT Crowd" though.

 

The server room was either "The bomb site" or "Where we keep the fridge with the cold drinks" depending on if we told them we had the latter

[K.C.Leblanc]

Most of the students tend to do their best to avoid me, I suspect I get called Severus Snape behind my back.

[CHR1S]

I had a year 6 girl ask me if I was allowed to hit pupils if they broke some IT equipment, my reply... "Unfortunately, not any more!" lol They actually start to develop a sense of humour at that age

[Duane_Dibbley]

they call me "mr John", "Mr Dentons brother" or "Mr Low" - Mr Denton and Mr Low are the only male teachers in the school. The nursery kids often call me "computer-fixer-man" and they all believed me when I told them that I was from computerland and that I fixed them by magic cos "i come from where computers are born, so our magic is the same"

[BatchFile]

they call me "mr John", "Mr Dentons brother" or "Mr Low" - Mr Denton and Mr Low are the only male teachers in the school. The nursery kids often call me "computer-fixer-man" and they all believed me when I told them that I was from computerland and that I fixed them by magic cos "i come from where computers are born, so our magic is the same"

 

I'm going to try that on selected Yr11s...

[Rydra]

I'm going to try that on selected Yr11s...

 

Now now, don't overload their poor brains. They are too busy sneaking out and drinking round their mates houses while "Going to do some revision"

[elsiegee40]

I love working in our Pre-School... there's nothing like trying to fix kit with a huddle of inquisitive 3 year olds wanting to know eactly what you're doing or trying to climb on your lap! Shame the staff aren't so cuddly really!

[john]

I get a mixture of Sir, Mr %surname%, John or various insults which I tend to let slide unless they are very crude. I don't mind them calling me John if they are sensible about it, certainly 6th form it isn't a problem as we are all a bit more in-formal / relaxed with them, but they still know where to stop and the line is drawn.

 

I also get your the one that blocks all our games and proxies, to which I reply I'm not and say its a person called Tom Newton and they think I'm taking the pee or trying to be funny, little do they know.....

[AntiThesis]

The littlees on one campus call me alternately Mr Valentines, Mr Valemtimes and Mr Valentimes Day (no prizes for guessing my surname). They also tend to run up and give my knees hugs for fixing their computers.

 

Mr %surname% or Sir for the older kids - though they're also cute since they've taken to sneakily calling me tata when I'm not looking.

Tata – This isiXhosa word means “father” and is a term of endearment that many South Africans use

 

Proud to share a nickname with Nelson Mandela *d'aaaw*

[enjay]

I don't mind them calling me John if they are sensible about it, certainly 6th form it isn't a problem as we are all a bit more in-formal / relaxed with them, but they still know where to stop and the line is drawn.

 

Do they also call teachers by their first names? If not, I don't think it acceptable that they call you John. Staff should be treated and addressed the same, whether teachers, IT support, lab techs or admin; otherwise you could create/reinforce an "us and them" between staff, or have the students viewing you as less important or less authoritative.

[CAM]

Sixth form aren't meant to refer to me by my first name but I am not too fussed. Partly because when I was in Sixth Form, I attended a place that wasn't connected to a secondary school and we were on first name terms with the staff.

 

Back on-topic: Some of the older non-Sixth formers did keep referring to anyone in the tech team as Mr ICT Technician Man. As annoying as it could be, it really did make them sound silly! Though at one point I got the nickname of "Bill Gates" to which I responded "If only I had that much money!"

[elsiegee40]

With our littlest ones, I am Mrs Garage or Mrs Carrot... the school secretary is Mrs Prawn! Miss Apron was one of our Reception teachers until recently!

[Mako]

It's just "Sir" for me, if they address me directly, or "Mr. / The IT Guy" when I hear them talk to each other about me. Kids who happen to know my first name, due to overhearing other staff, and use it are promptly reminded of the correct ettiquette when addressing a member of staff.

 

Although I was once working on a computer in a classroom during a lesson, and a late arrival turned up who quipped, "Oh! It's the Mr. IT-network-internet-computer-thingie-fixer man!"