Category: Work

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Jobs

Due to Carol being made redundant recently, I decided to try for a job with more money. There were two I applied for.
One, which I was interviewed for and got offered the job, I had to turn down as I would have lost money due to the extra travelling 🙁 .
The other didn't bother to answer my application until I started asking!

Shame really, as I would have liked the place that offered me the job. I've spoken to our head to see if I can get more money, but I've got to wait until September until he can speak to the Governors.

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Firefox

I've been playing with some extensions that can be added to Firefox. Makes you wonder why you ever used IE! Can't same I'm too sure about IE7 at the moment, so I think I'll stick to Firefox (Opera is good as well!).
The extensions do make life easier at work! 
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Teachers and Education

Last week I finished off a lesson I'd started a couple of weeks before with a Y5/6 class from one of our local primary schools. This was to design a web page using MS FrontPage. Now everything went well (even though I do say so myself!) and the kids did some good work.
Now I'm no teacher and this was my first experience teaching a class of kids. However the teacher thought it was time for her to do other work, so I was left, on occasions, on my own with the class! Ho hum!

Trouble is that I'm doing this lesson as a favour to the school and getting paid a damn site less than a teacher. Unfortunatley, if your not a teacher in education, you're considered not as good, as worthy or not worth as much money as a teacher. Of course, without support and technical staff, schools would grind to a halt.
Also why is it non teaching staff cannot become management?

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Cooler weather and a happier techie!

Phew, it's much better at work today with the weather being a bit cooler, it's only 26°C in my office today! That's compared to 31°C on Monday! That's only 5° difference but that's a lot. 
Even with the window open and the fan on it was stifling on Monday. Must have been something to do with the hot weather, the 2 servers, the 24 port hub, printer and my PC being on! Trouble is the chances of getting air con in here are approximately nil. It took over a year to get air con in our other server room and that's with the servers falling over all through the summer! Such are the joys of working in education and not being a teacher! 
 
Oh well, I've just put up my Paraguay, Trinidad & Sweden flags to go with my German one! Let's see how long it takes people to see them!
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Oops!

Well, after complaining about how slow things go yesterday, things took a turn for the better today. The info I needed was sent to me, I sent it off, got the quotes, the boss said yes without batting an eyelid and the order's been placed. So we now get two new spangly backup servers in August! What can I say?
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Buying Stuff

I don't believe some people. I rang up someone yesterday to get a quote for some back up servers as the boss has found some money. The chap I spoke to said that I needed to speak to someone else, so he'd get him to ring me. Over 24 hours and two follow up phone calls from me later – nothing. It's not that I want a favour from them I want to buy something from them for goodness sake.  And, of course, no one else can possibly get in touch………… 😎
 
UPDATE:
 
Oh well, I take it back, just had a phone call 🙂