Why do you young-lings do this in IT Suites?

I have been known to take the mouse and keyboard out of the base unit and use them in my laptop. I may have found I was too lazy to replace them at the end and placed them in the front USB ports.
I am not, however a young-ling.
 
ZXSpectrum said:
Why not tie wrap all the cables together at the back so they wont/cant be bothered to unplug and untangle the cable to plug into the front?
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That solution certainly works although i've seen my work dismantled when the guys are doing PAT testing and it's also a pain if the HDD or PSU fails and I need to quickly access the computer.
 
ColdAsIce said:
That solution certainly works although i've seen my work dismantled when the guys are doing PAT testing and it's also a pain if the HDD or PSU fails and I need to quickly access the computer.
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We do our own pat.

I wont allow any outsiders to PAT our IT equipment.
 
Not just students... I've worked in a college before but it tends to be any shared equipment in any shared environment, simple reason is because it's not theirs,they don't care.

People tend to look after equipment if they think it's theirs and are responsible for it.

I'm was lucky and in the position where I wasn't responsible for the day to day running of desktops but I was at a site sorting out a server where they was getting ofsted monitored and one of the lectures was moaning that her adaptor was'nt working, so I popped in to take a look. Well it turned out that her adaptor wasn't working because she never brought it with her, so I simply told her to get it... bearing in mine she knew she was getting monitored, she basically tried demanding that I should get a spare one for her. Long story short, she went and got her own adaptor. Lol

I was asked to go to the room again because another lecturer couldn't get the smart board and PC working and again they was being monitored. I was like, it was working 30 min ago as I saw it in working whilst I was in the room.. Popped up to find that the previous lecturer had plugged all the cables to get her laptop working with the smart board and cba to fit them all back in as she found it. Bearing in mind that my colleagues went in over the weekend to make sure every PC was working, updated and tided up... But the same applies for every shared environment with chairs hanging out, rubbish everywhere etc.. People really don't give a ****.
 
slinxy said:
Not just students... I've worked in a college before but it tends to be any shared equipment in any shared environment, simple reason is because it's not theirs,they don't care.

People tend to look after equipment if they think it's theirs and are responsible for it.

I'm was lucky and in the position where I wasn't responsible for the day to day running of desktops but I was at a site sorting out a server where they was getting ofsted monitored and one of the lectures was moaning that her adaptor was'nt working, so I popped in to take a look. Well it turned out that her adaptor wasn't working because she never brought it with her, so I simply told her to get it... bearing in mine she knew she was getting monitored, she basically tried demanding that I should get a spare one for her. Long story short, she went and got her own adaptor. Lol

I was asked to go to the room again because another lecturer couldn't get the smart board and PC working and again they was being monitored. I was like, it was working 30 min ago as I saw it in working whilst I was in the room.. Popped up to find that the previous lecturer had plugged all the cables to get her laptop working with the smart board and cba to fit them all back in as she found it. Bearing in mind that my colleagues went in over the weekend to make sure every PC was working, updated and tided up... But the same applies for every shared environment with chairs hanging out, rubbish everywhere etc.. People really don't give a ****.
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Yeah schools are notorious for damage to equipment, broken mouses, keyboards and even monitors because of people fiddling with cables all the time. A new cable would fix the monitor problem but I think they are usually left for dead leaving people to keep damaging the cable further.. to get a damn signal!
 
We used to do this in high school, but it was for one simple reason which perhaps doesn't apply here: BECAUSE NOTHING EVER ******* WORKED!!!

Every time we came to the PC it was a standard dance of "Does this keyboard work? Nope, steal the one from the PC next to me and test that on the front ports. Does this mouse work? Nope, steal-" you get the picture.
 
Redgie said:
We used to do this in high school, but it was for one simple reason which perhaps doesn't apply here: BECAUSE NOTHING EVER ******* WORKED!!!

Every time we came to the PC it was a standard dance of "Does this keyboard work? Nope, steal the one from the PC next to me and test that on the front ports. Does this mouse work? Nope, steal-" you get the picture.
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And do you know why nothing ever worked? Because no one cba to report it as faulty! It's easier to unplug the KB, Mouse or move to another machine than to fill a form to get someone to look at it.

Casing point is that the ALS computer rooms where the students where more likely to cause damage to the machines but only two lectures taught in it, reported every fault asap and they got fixed.
 
To stop the kids in my school doing that we cable tie the mouse, keyboard and network cable to the back of the machine. We also have the mice cut and pulling up the buttons on the mice.
 
at college we used to remove the 10-base-T terminators and wait for the novell servers to crash just to get out of a lesson on a nice day :D
 
I remember there was a phase when unplugging peripherals from other people's computers was considered a hilarious practical joke, and it was simply much easier to plug them back in to the front rather than try and reach round the back.

Haha it's all coming back now.. The old 'ctrl+a then enter' while on someone's desktop, inverting their mouse axes, turning their screen to portrait mode... :D
 
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Parents should have to pay for there kids own laptop throughout school. Why the frick they are all still using pen and paper is beyond me tbh.
 
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