Is it fair that I was excluded from college?

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Strife212 said:
lol school IT.

Sure it's stupid but exclusion worthy?
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He agreed to a set of rules which will have outlined the consequences of breaking them, he has also signed an agreement to conform after his first breach of the policy. While he has not done anything "illegal" he has broken the policies of the college he is/was attending....so yes exclusion worth, if he breached company policy in the workplace I am pretty sure he would be out on his ear.
 
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Ivee said:
Not sure if this is in the right place and I am quite new here but I was excluded for faking a BSOD on a tutors computer and needed an opinion from technical minded people. The BSOD was classified as a Trojan Horse by the college, yes it is an executable file that fakes a BSOD.

The thing is several students have been full screening pictures of a BSOD on tutors computers as well as putting up Google mavity as a laugh and a joke and the teachers took it as a laugh and a joke but when I did the same thing except with a piece of VB code I wrote they classified it as a virus, told me I commited a crime and excluded me.

I know I have violated the Computer Misuse Act 1998 but so have they by putting BSOD pranks on tutors machines without authority to do so. Due to this I think it is extremely unfair that I was excluded and was wondering what I could do, I am already on stage 3 which means I am close to being permanantly excluded from college, they have sent me home and took my ID card off of me while they open up an investigation and what has ****ed me off the most is that I've had to walk home because non of the buses would accept my student bus pass without my college ID card and I had no cash on me.

Please help I need support! This is vital to my future, the last dicipinary I had I had to sign a contract stating that I would use the computers sensibly but if they can do a BSOD prank on tutors and it be taken as a laugh and joke then what is the meaning of sensible?
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I think you have just answered your own questions. Unacceptable especially when you signed a contract stating you would not misuse computers.
 
The exclusion is justified! just based on the fact that you failed to comply with the Computer Misuse act! (which I'm sure you would have had to sign when enrolling at the college) that alone is grounds for a conviction and imprisonment if the school decided to take this even further. and to say that you have done similar actions previously does not help you in the slightest, infact makes it worse than if this was just a first! So imo count an exclusion as a lucky escape, even if your little BSOD code was harmless.
 
You had better quickly realise that no job is beneath you. My first job was counting different size washers in tiny trays in racks in a warehouse the size of a football field.

And I was a qualified Civil Engineer.

But it got me a house, a car and money to party.

You got to start somewhere, and any feelings that you will not do x, y or z job will quickly get forced out of you in the real world when you have responsibilities. No point being self-righteous, just get on with it.
 
Lt_Red said:
You had better quickly realise that no job is beneath you. My first job was counting different size washers in tiny trays in racks in a warehouse the size of a football field.

And I was a qualified Civil Engineer.

But it got me a house, a car and money to party.

You got to start somewhere, and any feelings that you will not do x, y or z job will quickly get forced out of you in the real world when you have responsibilities. No point being self-righteous, just get on with it.
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Or on the dole, wich in my eyes is worse than not having a job if you have the ability to get one but choose not to.
 
all I see is someone who constantly breaks rules regardless of personal issues/difficult life experiences/the rights and wrongs of society - you have had repeated warnings and also kicked out twice - why do you deserve a yet another chance? To me you don't in the slightest.

You might think it's clever, but it's nothing they don't see repeatedly every year, common sense would dictate that when warned, you quit messing around and grow up.

You come across like you would be a terrible person to work with and manage.
 
BrokenSword said:
Do you not think the College may find this thread and use it against you?
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Especially considering you've posted your full name in another thread and left the area code of the phone number in this thread, there can't be that many people with your name in the Burnley area.
 
I know I am friends with you in real life and stuff - don't mark my words wrong, but this is reading the posts you're posting on the forum. I'd keep the posts minimal and try to understand what people are saying. I'd say people in class aren't as bad as what you did, although what they did was easily undoable and didn't affect the underlaying of marking coursework. I tried to tell you that it isn't healthy for your college career doing such things as this - but you didn't really take my advice and did it (and then made the mistake again).

What you did could have had potential problems, e.g. making the computer look as though it is broken during a teacher's marking work. Our teacher didn't really know what was hidden inside the file and he could have opened it not knowing what it really is.

It was unfair on our teacher in whole and what really happened is in fact different from what you're saying in the thread.

Note: I AM NOT USING THE PAST OR ANYTHING AGAINST YOU!

I'd say you're in deep bother with the college; no doubt about it. If you needed the help then this really shouldn't have been the place you should come to as it is a technical related forum. I am not turning against you in any shape or form - I'm just saying use an anonymous forum to help yourself and get information on how to solve and rectify your issue with the college.

I've had to give an honest statement and it wasn't a very comfortable situation as this really isn't anything on my plate of issues within my life. I would try my best to explain to the college if I were you (simplifying what actually happened), although don't overpower your explanation. I acknowledge that the class did something low levelled on the scale of being bad. But thinking it over their mistake was undoable very easily as moving the mouse and clicking the [X] button to close a program (in this scenario it is a web browser).

What you coded was potentially a PUP (I am sure you're familiar with this word) - alternatively it could be said differently (e.g. a type of virus that is non-infectious but causes issues if the user is doing anything important on the computer).

A user such as a teacher could have seen the file as different compared to what you say it is and open it.

I will repeat this is in my own opinion and no one has told me to say it (I am not a robot).

Posted in my humble opinion.
 
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