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

Our whole metal work class had to spend 2 weeks of detention looking for the teacher's mouse ball. Which I knew I had crushed in the vice and thrown away.

I bit the bullet and bought one in from home.

The teacher said "hmm, it's changed colour, how strange... you may leave"
 
Kids in high school will destroy/vandalise stuff out of frustration or boredom.

From minor annoyances like swapping usb cables, unplugging stuff, to actually punching or pressing something sharp against the screen, putting crap in the dvd players, destroying tweeters, stealing mice, etc...


I was ****ed once in high school and disabled a whole row of pc's by setting a bios password ( stupid IT guys didn't protect the bios). They were ''offline'' for a week with cards ''out of use because of vandalism'' on the screens, stupid idiots could have reset the cmos in the same time.
 
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We have CCTV fitted in the Computer rooms at work now. Very decent POE IP cameras.

Have already caught people cutting mice cables and one child smashing a monitor.

best thing was that the child then unplugged the monitor (both VGA and power) and informed his teacher the pc "Just turned off".
He was confronted and denied it. he was shown the CCTV and broke down and admitted it.... he parents never paid for the monitor and the school never chased.
Meh
 
Cruiser said:
when I go to my night class the day students have lowered all the chairs as close to the floor as possible and the back angle is at least 45 degrees
don't get it
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Sneak up behind someone who is working quietly, and push the lever to make their chair go down, hours of fun for the brain-dead.
 
For some reason in high school on the main shared network drive all accounts had full control over it.

Denying all user groups any sort of permission on the drive seemed like the fun thing to do at the time. :o :D

Pretty sure I did it during a Welsh lesson, I can still remember the room we were in and the reactions though.
 
At my college there was essentially no security, accounts etc set-up on the PCs, they were just a bunch of machines running Windows Me connected to a switch, which then ran through a proxy server connected to an ISDN modem. Last day of the semester before the mid-year break, a friend and I took a screenshot of the desktop on a bunch of them, set it as the wallpaper then hid the desktop icons.

Came back some weeks later to be told that a number of the PCs had to be reformatted/reinstalled over the holidays because the desktop icons had stopped working.
 
Our school had one suite that was all turned on and off by a single breaker by the door. One day the teacher forgot to lock the door and someone had taken it upon themselves to flip the switch on 25+ computers PSUs from 240v to 110v.

Almighty bang and a horrific smell ended that lesson rather abruptly :(.

Or the classic "child pron" folder and screenshot on the teachers desktop :eek:.
 
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:)
 
DR_Pingu said:
The worst thing has to be the morons who break the flaps on the backs of keyboards... And I'm talking more about secondary school/colleges... (In colleges, well, and schools, it seems to be the uneducated goons who ALWAYS do this)
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I don't see the problem, people who have their keyboard tilted up instead flat are just plain wrong.
 
Tell me about it!! We have this at our school and also the shipping of cables. I have it with a passion. Also the kids who swap keys around and take the backs off the pc's. Annoying as ****!
 
It's because of boredom!

When I was at school, we did all sorts. I don't remember physically breaking stuff (apart from hiding mouse balls). We used to format HDDs, snoop around the network, try and access stuff we shouldn't, etc etc.

I remember the old IT lessons, so boring... This is Excel.... enter this in A1......enter this in A2......

Our lessons should have been called "How to use Microsoft Office"
 
What are the mice used in education nowadays? Corded optical? I can't see them getting laser… Unless you were in the CAD classes.

Remember the plotter days in school? There just wasn't enough hours in school for all the great stuff. Designing something and 1 hour felt like 10 minutes.

There was always some idiot swinging a T-Square. Or pouring a load of pencil sharpenings over people.


snowdog said:
Kids in high school will destroy/vandalise stuff out of frustration.

From minor annoyances like swapping usb cables, unplugging stuff, to actually punching or pressing something sharp against the screen, putting crap in the dvd players, destroying tweeters, stealing mice, etc...


I was ****ed once in high school and disabled a whole row of pc's by setting a bios password ( stupid IT guys didn't protect the bios). They were ''offline'' for a week with cards ''out of use because of vandalism'' on the screens, stupid idiots could have reset the cmos in the same time.
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Teenagers ruined it out of sheer badness. Metal workshop and the wood shop classes were ruined in my time with what we could do.

Chisels were no longer allowed as I'm sure you're aware. Stabbing devices. Even using the belt sanders was no longer allowed due to people sanding wood away into spiked sticks. It became so bad in the mid 90s teachers just left the rooms since all the machines were locked down and people throwing the wooden stools around the class since they thought it was hilarious.

I absolutely loved the metal and wood workshops before it was ruined. Especially later on when we got into working and heating/bending plastics into shapes. That too was also ruined. :/ Same for art class and the potters wheel. Scalpel knives, yeah right!

Luckily we had an awesome art teacher, he wasn't a big brush type of person. Those who ruined it for others were banished. Those of us that were trust worthy were allowed to get on with our projects.

Sadly I can't remember his name as this was back in 94 - 96.


I think it's the reason why I'm so possessive with my stuff even to this day. From all the years through school and college, people ruined the equipment or your own stuff. "lighten up" "its just a laugh" "wee joke"
 
Not sure what you guys are on about?? I got 3 IT rooms with 0 damage since 2015!

You lot need tell staff to start watching the students. send bills to a few departments, and hand out a few detentions and use a lot of cables ties to keep cables where they should be.

Also take photos of the room at the start in perfect condition and the end of the day in a mess. The Head will soon get the teachers to look after the rooms.
 
Back in the windows 95/98 days, we used to create untouchable folders on the desktop. {Teachers name} alt + 255 (i think it was)on the numeric keypad for the space and ofcourse, Porn. So it would read Louis Porn
Folder couldn't be opened, deleted, renamed, moved pretty much nothing could be done. Even the details for it were 'Unknown'
 
V F said:
It became so bad in the mid 90s teachers just left the rooms since all the machines were locked down and people throwing the wooden stools around the class since they thought it was hilarious.
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If only you were around to offer that sage advice to my old Metalwork and Technical Drawing teacher, Mr 'Major' Morgan.

I don't know if you had them them at your school, but for Tech. Drawing classes back then the teacher had a large wooden compass for drawing circles on the blackboards, it was basically two lengths of wood hinged in the middle with a nail at one end a place to stick chalk at the other.

From what I can remember, the poor sod had the misfortune of filling in and being left in charge of the divvy form one day, 'Trent', the form where all the unruly ***** were placed. I don't know the exact details, but one of the aforementioned divs lobbed the compass across the room which ended up with Mr Morgan having a 6" nail embedded in his groin. :eek:
 
I work in IT for a big call centre, we've had to cable tie the mouse/keyboard cables to the backs of the computers or desk legs etc to stop users from unplugging them...

So yeah, not just high school kids but grown ups in a workplace too... :rolleyes:
 
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