so that's why they call it Assman

[pete]

Teachers get earful of racy XXX chat in Capita IT cock-up ? The Register

 

One of our DH did look rather bemused after phoning up the helldesk, I assumed at the time it was due to the census.

[CAM]

Damn beat me to it. @PhilNeal got a quote in on El Reg though!

[Edu-IT]

Haha! Oh it just gets better.

[synaesthesia]

That's priceless I'm not sure they could have mixed the two most inappropriate subjects short of putting callers straight through to the Jim'll Fix It hotline.

[vikpaw]

My assman.exe line seemed to disappear from SupportNet

[jinnantonnixx]

My assman.exe line seemed to disappear from SupportNet

 

Soon to be replaced with Teacher's Integrated Timetable Manager...

[featured_spectre]

Soon to be replaced with Teacher's Integrated Timetable Manager...

 

Surely it should be "Teacher's Integrated Timetable System"...or T.I.T.S. for short

[jinnantonnixx]

Surely it should be "Teacher's Integrated Timetable System"...or T.I.T.S. for short

 

No, I think the ***MAN suffix has its place and should be encouraged with ever more amusing filenames.

[LiamH]

The old PA at our place once issued a phone list with assistant heads labeled "ass heads" to fit into the table.

 

I found it quite amusing anyway.

[Oaktech]

a system i used to work with built very slowly and sat for ages on a piece of custom software called wancr.exe which iirc stood for Windows And Novell Client Reporting which reported back to a management console who was logged on. This was found to be highly entertaining. Can't understand why.