It's just like yesterday morning, I had 2 people want me to remove Foolproof from their computers, 2 to get me to get them sound on their computer, all while I'm trying to finish my Microsoft Access project.
And what a bunch of goddamn whiners! If one person encounters a problem, they don't even try to think it through, they whine to the teacher, "Tell Brandon to come and help me!" To which he looks at me and gives me a "Well what are you waiting for?" look.
And for the big chachonga, the school had been calling Time Warner out for over a week. (The internet has been down.) I offered at first to look over the routers, LANs, and WANs but they decided they wanted to waste some poor soul's time for a week. Finally I just got fed up and stormed over to the router. It turns out someone had gotten the Cat5 cables mixed up.
I plan to write in big bold letters on the board tomorrow, "BRANDON IS NOT A PUBLIC RESOURCE." Thought it will probably not work, one can hope.
Ugg, I pray that generations to come will all know how to work computers, instead of just knowing how to download Kazaa and stare at "Double Anal White Hoes" for 2 hours a morning. [ 10-02-2002: Message edited by: Ryuujin ]
Then, the next time this happens, just hand them that information. If they complain, remind them (and the teacher, who will overhear this) that this is a school and that they are here to learn. Then, go back to whatever you were doing.
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Palador ChibiDragon stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
Does your school library have any books on computers? Take a quick look tomorrow, and write down the titles and numbers of a few of them.Then, the next time this happens, just hand them that information. If they complain, remind them (and the teacher, who will overhear this) that this is a school and that they are here to learn. Then, go back to whatever you were doing.
We don't have a library at our school, well, not much of one anyway.
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Ryuujin had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
We don't have a library at our school, well, not much of one anyway.
Quick internet search then, and find some books that can be ordered from Amazon or something. Get that information, and do the same thing.
Or, tell them that assisting them for no payment is a "non value added process" in your education. Tell them that you have been advised to charge $10.50 an hour, for on-site tech support, with a one hour minimum per request. [ 10-02-2002: Message edited by: Palador ChibiDragon ]
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Or, tell them that assisting them for no payment is a "non value added process" in your education. Tell them that you have been advised to charge $10.50 an hour, for on-site tech support, with a one hour minimum per request.
Wonderful. Isn't It.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Ryuujin wrote:
Because you'll CONSTANTLY be taken advantage of and taken away from your own work.It's just like yesterday morning, I had 2 people want me to remove Foolproof from their computers, 2 to get me to get them sound on their computer, all while I'm trying to finish my Microsoft Access project.
And what a bunch of goddamn whiners! If one person encounters a problem, they don't even try to think it through, they whine to the teacher, "Tell Brandon to come and help me!" To which he looks at me and gives me a "Well what are you waiting for?" look.
And for the big chachonga, the school had been calling Time Warner out for over a week. (The internet has been down.) I offered at first to look over the routers, LANs, and WANs but they decided they wanted to waste some poor soul's time for a week. Finally I just got fed up and stormed over to the router. It turns out someone had gotten the Cat5 cables mixed up.
I plan to write in big bold letters on the board tomorrow, "BRANDON IS NOT A PUBLIC RESOURCE." Thought it will probably not work, one can hope.
Ugg, I pray that generations to come will all know how to work computers, instead of just knowing how to download Kazaa and stare at "Double Anal White Hoes" for 2 hours a morning.
"It's something even the Masters don't reveal about the hidden nature of the universe... the deepest and darkest of all that the Force lets you see... the universe has a sense of humour." Callista, Children of the Jedi
I don't mind helping someone once, twice or even three times, but after they just stop working on their own it gets very annoying. Espcailly when its stuff that a elementary kid would know.
Next time your teacher drops that "what are you waiting for line" politely tell him or her that you are not the instructor in this course, it's not your job to teach them.
Further more, I would agree with the charging a "consultation fee" as you are also there to learn, and not do the work the instructor SHOULD be doing.
and on a final note, and you'll do well to remember this for the future. Never let on that you know more than the next person. People WILL take advantage of it, and WILL try to walk all over you at every opportunity because of it.
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Nobody really understood why Ryuujin wrote:
Ugg, I pray that generations to come will all know how to work computers, instead of just knowing how to download Kazaa and stare at "Double Anal White Hoes" for 2 hours a morning.
I just think the next generation will do both. 
wasn't a whole lot i could do about it, though, considering i kept getting asked questions when i generally didn't know the answer. they eventually stopped asking, if i remember correctly. [ 10-02-2002: Message edited by: Kloie ]
That 'security' program is such a pile of junk, Ive seen a novice hack that thing.
*yanks the leeeezard's tail and runs off*
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Nobody really understood why Ryuujin wrote:
Because you'll CONSTANTLY be taken advantage of and taken away from your own work.
I have that happen all the time. Except most of the people wanted to know how to add pictures to Word and not download porn.
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Reynar had this to say about Duck Tales:
LOL, people still use foolproof?That 'security' program is such a pile of junk, Ive seen a novice hack that thing.
I used the corruptible .vxd method.
Of course, that was only because I had a lot of time to kill. By the time the rest of the class was ready for help I was done with the assignment. And the people I helped actually had a good chance of retaining what I taught them.
Except in Computer Science I, because half the class were people who thought all we did was play computer games (true, but the smart ones did their work first).
All it took was a simple boot from a floppy to surpass the program entirly.
*baps KaL*
