Day Twenty Two & Twenty Three

I missed last night's blog action due to going out on the lash. However, I still won't have a word said against my professionalism.

Yesterday, I started to delegate some simple tasks to the new IT Assistant guy via The Big Boss. Unfortunately, these tasks have been attempted, unsuccessfully completed, and returned to me. This is rubbish. Also when it's really simple stuff, you kinda think twice before asking for similar help again. It really is just easier to do it yourself.

I contacted the main LEA helpdesk about the requirements the school need in place to allow students to access their work from home. I expect many many days will pass before someone rings me back to say "yes, we have a ticket from you regarding logging on", then I will have to explain that's not what I asked, and then explain it all again from scratch before I get passed on to another, wrong, department! (Actually, I've just checked the staff remote access system, and the LEA still have not implemented the changed I asked for 2 weeks ago. They are shocking).

Wednesday was also the first time the "yes" game was played.

Today, I realised that most of the older videos on the Video on Demand pages did not appear correctly - this was a summer job that got overshadowed by me becoming the Lord of IT, so I finished fixing that today. There are still lots more older videos to convert from QuickTime to Flash format, then to make streamable if the server software ever turns up (along with that foot spa I have to run it on, apparently).

Some random assistant lady's laptop went wrong today, so I have to replace that. She can choose between her broken laptop, another 6 year old laptop, or a 5 and a hal

f year old laptop. It's all a bit ridiculous - we're meant to be fantastic at IT, but issued 95% of staff with laptops from 2002 which are so slow, have about 256MB RAM and completely flat batteries. Great.

Oh, and two computers which were loaned to The Big Boss a couple of days ago to show (the worlds most poorly made) PowerPoint presentation have come back, but now refuse to let any one log in. 

I moodled today too. It was crap. There's a thing called a SCORM format course, which doesn't upload properly, well, at all. Which means the Media dept will be annoyed soon as they want to use it. I think Moodle is rubbish. Fact.

And as you'd expect. No one has applied for the IT Technician job