Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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not the oldest git in the worldand only vaguely IT related but...
did an ICT ASVCE over two years at my school (basically an AS-level but with some vocational leanings to those who care) the first year went fine with a competent woman teaching us and helping us out when needed, but she got pregnant and was off for most of the second year on maternity, so we got a cover teacher and the head of IT in to replace her. The cover was sound, and probably equally competent but was not allowed to teach us, just babysit. The head of IT was a dickhead who had trouble turning a PC on. One lesson he rushed through our project for the next few weeks, and then (wrongly) told us how much lesson time we had left. Everyone noticed this error, but i was the only smart-arse who pointed it out to him, so for the next ten minutes I (and once i'd said something I had the backing of my class) argued with him about how many lessons we actually had (1 fewer than he'd said originally). At one point he counted them out on his fingers and still got them wrong. Last i heard he'd got a deputy post at some school in the midlands, feel sorry for those kids, but at least he'll be teaching less. His son was a complete twat too, but that's beside the point.
No apologies for length, just for overall irrelevance and shitness
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 14:41, Reply)
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