I was an IT tech monkey at school
A few years back, I was in sixth form. My sixth form tutor happened to be the head of IT, and as he was a very laidback person (read: almost horizontal), we could have gotten away with murder under his supervision. Me and two of my mates, S and J, were interested in computers, and as a result, ended up being Mr G, the form tutor, being his minions after about two weeks or so.

As a result of being Mr G's minions, we got admin access to the school computer network, as well as pretty much any piece of technological equipment we so desired, and as this was a "technology college" I went to, we had a fair bit of kit in the place.

We used to do the bog-standard stuff of watching over kids in lessons, and at times, we used to monitor them via Remote Desktop, and if we caught them doing stuff like trying to get on porn, used to bring up Notepad and type in "Oi, stop that." or a message along those lines. Occasionally this would result in shrieks from the younger kids as they thought their computer was possessed.

Then there was the other stuff. Because we were all on one server, with a back-up server in case the first one died, we could have LAN games. There was one time during a free period when me and S were having a game of Tiberian Sun (raise your hands if you remember this fondly), when Mr G turns up, and asks what we're doing. We 'fess up, and instead of the bollocking we were assuming to get, he instead tells us to stop the game, and go and set up a new one and wait two minutes. We do so, and two minutes later, he's joined us for a game. We also had Unreal Tournament running on the server on the quiet side, and the people we knew and could trust with this secret would join us for a lunchtime frag session.

Remember how I said that we could borrow technological kit if we needed to, earlier? At one point, after school, we took over two rooms, borrowed two of the projectors and set up an Xbox LAN party in the rooms. This kept getting repeated every night after school up until roughly the end of lower sixth.

But the best part about all this was during upper sixth, me and S and J got paid £50 each per week to switch on the computers every morning and set up a test that the entire school was doing (it was one of those crappy test the nation type things). Essentially, this meant we all came in half an hour earlier, switched all the computers on, clicked an icon and typed in a username on each computer, and that was it all ready to go. And as this was going on for a month, it was probably the easiest £200 I've ever made from being an IT monkey.

I miss those days of easy money. :(

Length? Not long enough to satisfy me
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 16:06, 1 reply)

You get a click
for Tib Sun. Much better than C&C3 IMO.
Those were the days *sigh*
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 9:31, closed)