Computer rant

The computers have been out to get me today. Given that I teach ICT, that isn't great.

Actually, it's not just the computers. The technician hasn't helped. How about this for a scenario:

I'm teaching one of our oldest classes who, given that they move on to Upper school in two weeks, are challenging at times. We're finishing off their web pages. I started these before I went off ill; they did some work on them while I was off but the teachers covering didn't have the knowledge to help them complete their work.

Suddenly, as the class are working silently, engrossed in their pages, they start complaining of problems saving. I look in the network folder where they are saved and (eventually) realise that they are disappearing before my eyes,even though the pupils are not doing anything.

I go down to the technician and ask her if she knows what is going on. She tells me she is removing them from the network and writing them to CD. Sorry? Yes, that's right, she is removing them. She thought we had finished that unit. Had she asked me? No. Had she asked anyone? No. But (after I have gone) she asks the other ICT teacher if SHE knew I was still working on them and is told yes, she did. Technician then complains "I am invisible - nobody tells me anything."

Err....

Well, if you had asked...
Or even told me you were planning to remove them....
Or hinted at lack of network space when we were talking about this very subject on Friday...

But no...
This is MY fault. Clearly I should have realised that there was a lack of space (even though she told me the total opposite on Friday). I should have realised she was going to delete the web pages (even though she has never done so before). I should have told her that I was working on this unit (although I have never had to do so before). I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. Because this is MY FAULT and I have clearly INCONVENIENCED HER.

*%$# the lot of them.