> If I wanted to do something, I would be told that there weren't the resources. The outcome of that works out one of two ways: (a) the employee leaves as soon as they have enough experience to be paid more to do less work by someone else or (b) the employee stays knowing nobody else will hire them and makes sure to only hire other people who know less than they do. This causes the district to hire whatever candidate they can get to take the job. It is made more complex by the likelihood that the position pays far less than comparable positions pay elsewhere. It's probably anxiety about job security/being overworked rather than maliciousness, but it could be both. > I don’t know if it was outright maliciousness, or just extreme anxiety from the IT team lead about job security So there were all sorts of fun issues, like they would buy computers and before they could get deployed their warranty would expire (since they weren't allowed to buy 3 year warranties on the computers) and computers with bad HDDs would get disposed of, even though the fix might be $50 and 10 minutes of time. They could buy new computers all day long, but if something needed to be repaired/updated/maintained, there was no budget or resources to do it. I worked for them as a contractor for a while and one of the big issues they had was they had tons of money to implement new technology (mostly from grants and things like that), but nearly nothing to maintain old tech.
Stack em high vandalism driver#
My favorite was they asked me to train a school bus driver to be the newest member of the IT staff because "they wanted to learn computers", it also just so happened that this person was the only person their budget could afford (less than 40k/year). We all got our CompTIA A+ certifications at the end, but don't ask me what IRQ number is for the parallel port these days.Īre you me?! This basically was my experience working for a very large school district in the early 2000's. So if you bash it it un-seizes and starts turning again.Īnyway great times, fun memories. Well as it turns out some of those old hard drives used a vegetable oil based lube that seizes up if it's not used for a while. I was (secretly) as amazed as everyone else in the class.īack in the IT office, I say it worked. I blushed, but told them this was normal operating procedure. Of course this got the class all riled up. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times. I climb behind the computer on a cart and pull out the HD.
So I go down there and let myself in, trying not to interrupt the class. I was like: "?" and he was like, "just do it".
Boss sent me down there with specific instructions: "pull out the hard drive and beat it really hard with the handle of this screwdriver". One day one of the old macs was showing the frowny face in a in-session classroom.
Stack em high vandalism how to#
I learned so many things, from how to punch, terminate, and run cables to how to set up a Ghost image and deploy it en masse across the district. It was an amazing experience working with those guys. I 'worked' for my own high school's IT dept, a few hours a week, as a student. Several weeks later: meeting to discuss working with a consulting firm that's gonna fix all the security issues because the current staff (me and my team) lacks the skills. However, the kid got ratted out when he told all his friends. I heard they were paid $50K and found nothing. A week later an independent consulting firm was brought in to help identify the person behind the "hack".
Stack em high vandalism full#
Email from boss, in full panic mode: "I need you to figure out who hacked the computer lab at Springfield High so we can report him to the police!"ħ. The local newspaper picked up the story.Ħ. A few days later Miss Krabappel filed to sue the school district. Next day, email from boss: "The computer lab at Springfield High was hacked! Figure out how to fix this and make sure it doesn't happen again!"ĥ. All the computers displayed a popup window that said, "Miss Krabappel is a dyke!" (sorry for the offensive language)Ĥ. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High got "hacked". Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited."Ģ. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think:ġ. Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst.
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