So, the day this hit Facebook from PC World, I contacted the "Tech" person above me & asked if I should have all staff at my school NOT use IE & instead, use Chrome (also loaded onto most of the computers). She said yes. Sent out email to all staff that they should NOT use IE until issue was fixed & told them to use Chrome.
Walking into the building that day (Wednesday) I discover we are getting new copiers. Our staff can add the copiers to their compute as a printer. Of course no one knew we were getting new copiers so no one knew that the printer settings on their machines now did not work because the machines they were sending the print job to were no longer in the building. Try the former way of accessing the print server to add the copiers only to find that they are not listed. (Am now seriously contemplating which alcoholic beverage to enjoy after work.)
Thursday, the IT Tech assigned to our building finally makes it there, interrupts my class to give me the NEW way to access the print server for the PC's and something totally different for our MACs. Try out the MAC option as I had my laptop. Pain in the ass, but it worked. (Have to go to a separate website each and every time I want to print something, effectively making me decide NOT to use the laptop anymore as that's not efficient.) Tired to install copier as a printer on a PC -- no workee. NOW contemplating banging head against concrete block walls as I'm using the newest desktops in the computer lab (ones we bought so we could "test" the kids). Email the IT person & tell her not to leave the building until she talks to me. After dismissal hall duty, I find her in the office, trying to figure out why the Office copier/printer can't be connected to the Registrar's computer. She's not sure the Internet drop is working. (I am sure that it is!) Go to my area, log onto an old computer, decide on a whim to use Internet Explorer (at this point it's what the hell, anyway), and the copier/printer installs at first try. Turns out it doesn't work at all on Chrome. Now have headache & contemplating whether I really want my job to turn me into an alcoholic.
Friday, spend 4 hours in the car trying to get through the flood at Wayson's & get to work. Walk in the door to be met by a request to check out two of the three copiers as they won't let anyone log on (now have to use "credentials" to copy). Checked first one, it was out of paper, everything working fine. Checked second one, someone was using it, it was working fine. Now have to go to all teachers & let them know that they will have to use IE to install the copier/printer on their computers & listen to them tell me, "but you told us not to use it!"
Yes, I am a teacher. No, I do not get paid enough to put up with this kind of aggravation. I hate computers. I hate politics that make us buy more computers so we can TEST children on them. I hate organizations that do things without telling the people that will have to work with whatever they do, and who don't bother to check and see that what they are ordering/buying/putting in place is compatible with everything else.
I LOVE my students.
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