Ever see the STNG episode where the computer is screwed, and everything is going wrong with the Enterprise? There’s a Romulan ship in the area, and Reiker says something like, (not claiming to be exact, I am not-quite-rabid-Trekkie) “Should it come to a fight, will someone get me some rocks to throw at them?”
Yeah. That was my day. My computer at work was, for half the day, a big ole paperweight. No one could get in the database. Yes, that’s fifty some teachers sending attendance on little pieces of paper for four periods, that I had to enter once the server (?? not sure still) came back up.
Some people could get the internet and email, but not me.
Why did I need on the internet at work? Oh, I don’t know–because I know my way around enough I can do most of my work through the internet unlike nearly anyone else you’d care to tap at my school?
*snarl*
As I told my office manager–I couldn’t do attendance. I couldn’t do registration. I couldn’t find kids for pick up, I could answer the phone but I couldn’t answer questions, and I couldn’t file because I had to keep explaining over and over why I wasn’t doing my other work and why I couldn’t help whoever the hell wanted something now. I told her the only reason I was there was to get yelled at.
She said with a chuckle, “Better you than me.”
I love her, I do, but sometimes…