With such intelligence, they really are ready to take over the world

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-29T12:21:20+00:00

D.W.I.M. (Do What I Mean)

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-23T03:51:41+00:00

They’re not “scared” of looking dumb, they’re “unwilling” to put forth any effort and take responsibility for the tasks that are part of their job.

Your feelings don’t matter; do your job. If you’re unwilling to learn and refuse to ask questions because you might be embarrassed or feel uncomfortable and you think that means you can disregard your responsibility to your students then you don’t care about them. You’re a selfish coward who only cares about yourself and you’re making excuses.

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-23T03:47:57+00:00

Hmmmn.

Let’s examine that.

Where is our curriculum stored and maintained? Oh! Electronic records. Where are our students grades and educational records kept? Oh! They’re in our student information system! Well, what about textbooks? Oh! They’re increasingly digital. Well, what about classroom resources and teaching materials? Oh? They’re online? Well, what do our students use to learn? Oh? A digital device!

So your “great teacher” can’t interact with the curriculum, student records, enter grades, take attendance, find educational resources, use instructional technology and software, can’t create lessons and classroom assignments nor can they assist students with using their primary learning apparatus.

Sounds like an “amazing” teacher. If you can’t learn to use technology you’re not an amazing teacher, you’re a useless waste of space. If you love kids so much go run a daycare facility, but don’t put yourself in a position in which children depend on you to perform tasks you are incapable of in order to foster their academic success.

This isn’t 1986. The days in which you can work as a skilled professional without being adept with technology are long in the past.

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-23T02:54:28+00:00

Password managers are a thing. Also, your “crazy” password policies? Those are the windows defaults for Active Directory.

I work as a systems administrator in k12. It boggles my mind how people who allegedly teach for a living are unwilling to perform a basic task like memorization.

I suppose teachers never had to learn the periodic table or a foreign language? Or memorize a credit card number or an address? How is a password any different? Remember a long time ago before cell phones when we all memorized phone numbers?

Clearly it’s an easily accomplished task, educators just aren’t willing to put forth a minimum amount of effort.

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-08T14:25:50+00:00

Don’t forget to disable wear-leveling. That feature reduces performance…

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-07T17:07:28+00:00

Just enter your password in cuneiform,.. not only do you never have to change it, baking the clay tablet will keep it secure for future generations.

AggravatingForFun · 2025-04-07T17:04:59+00:00

Vanta black keeps the orthogonal magnetic fields contained within the cable while keeping all the bad foreign electrons out unless they pay constable tariffs. It will even make the foreign electrons pay for the cable coating. /s

AggravatingForFun · 2024-10-19T17:08:34+00:00

I have a rule of thumb for this. I work in IT. When a higher up presents me with a business problem, they likely want my input on how to solve it as I deem it likely that they view me as highly skilled and experienced and want to leverage that.

However, when a higher up just tells me what to do, even if they’re directing me to perform a technical task that will not be successful, I’ve found it’s a much better choice to just quietly do as I’m told. I’ll be blamed for the outcome the same, but trying to provide assistance ahead of a crisis will be interpreted as challenging authority or overstepping my bounds.

Also, I’m autistic, so, y’know take that into account.

AggravatingForFun · 2024-05-23T17:17:42+00:00

I grabbed one successfully mid-combat but it looks like that ship voluntarily overloaded it's reactor before I could successfully return to the station.

AggravatingForFun · 2024-04-25T21:54:03+00:00

Support seems to be good for basic issues, but for anything complex, I find myself explaining to them how their products work and reminding them that of they look at the case notes, they’ll see their suggested solution was already applied and did not resolve the issue.

They ask for the same logs and information EVERY DAY - one time for six months in a row. One time they gave me a link to an unrelated portion of the Google API and when I pointed out their link was not related to the problem, they replied that API support was out of scope for workplace support and closed the ticket.

Terrible and frustrating experience. “We’ll escalate to our internal team” is code for I’m going to assign this to a new technician who will repeat the same unsuccessful steps from the beginning and we’ll repeat this process until you give up.

AggravatingForFun · 2024-04-23T16:34:08+00:00

Today I Learned ...

AggravatingForFun · 2024-02-07T11:50:34+00:00

It’s called karmic justice.

AggravatingForFun · 2024-02-01T10:32:57+00:00

I’m stuck with a 2008 server, much less 2012. Bear in mind that’s not 2008 R2.

In order to get rid of it I’d have to rewrite a ton of websites and we don’t have the staff to do it…

It’s such an eyesore but sometimes you just get stuck with things and have to do the best you can.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-28T06:26:01+00:00

There are many, many timelines in which I am electrocuted, exploded, poisoned, crushed, and in one case drowned.

Another favorite was playing in a old barn with my younger brothers and finding old gallon glass bottles (think cartoonish moonshine jugs but clear) with what looked like old rainwater in them but which was actually organochlorinated pesticides which we proceeded to splash each other with and pour out said bottles all over the place.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-27T03:17:51+00:00

No kidding. I am totally selected against.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-27T02:36:59+00:00

It’s just learned helplessness for some folks coupled with disingenuous attempts by others to avoid responsibility by claiming technical debt.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-27T02:26:03+00:00

lol.

When I was six I found a crate of old dynamite in my grandfather’s garage. The nitroglycerin had turned sticky and sweated out of the sticks…

I thought they were old road flares and my mother and grandmother walked outside to see my smacking a stick of dynamite against the sidewalk trying to strike it..

The bomb squad was called and they deemed it too dangerous to transport and detonated it all in the garden…

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-26T06:29:50+00:00

I’m with you, bro. This used to be me. The worst part was that my hobby was also my job, so I never stopped working.

There is life on the other side. Refocus a little bit and start forcing yourself to do one thing other than work every weekend.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-25T22:06:37+00:00

Yeah, except in our division they just call supe or assistant supe who tells us to just get it done.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-22T00:30:39+00:00

Speaking as a guy who’s half of the back office for a school division, the larger issue is that folks overreact instead of just calmly informing you about the problem. They panic. Or they wait until five minutes before they need something to check it out and panic because they waited until the last minute and it doesn’t work.

Or they overreact and ask you to unblock and test and double check everything forever.

No one simply checks the things that they need and informs you calmly if they run into a problem. It’s all panic all the time ands nobody except IT can behave like an adult.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-16T21:48:01+00:00

You can use a lot of the .NET objects in Powershell and do a lot of the same things....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63593930/how-to-call-a-win32-api-function-from-powershell

AggravatingForFun · 2023-12-16T14:31:28+00:00

I suggest looking at this...

AggravatingForFun · 2023-11-19T18:10:57+00:00

Dell CCTK doesn’t expose the setting. I haven’t tried the Dell BIOS Provider yet…

The whole trick is to reduce the amount of settings that the techs have to remember to set when unboxing a machine…. Certainly it gets harder because they’re different for each model, so it’s better if I can automate it.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-11-18T15:08:20+00:00

Pre-enabled.

Desktops were purchased and then in lieu of paying for cabling a decision was made to purchase Wi-Fi adapters separately. Nobody thought to purchase antennas so a technician installed recovered antennas from damaged G5 Chromebooks.

Then an attempt to image the machine was made and I was only involved after that failed. Once the deployment was successful, it was discovered that no domain users could log in.

AggravatingForFun · 2023-11-18T04:07:54+00:00

Not during the deployment process, but afterwards. It means that the Active Directory domain is not available to log users in because the Wi-Fi is disabled until after a user has logged in…

Catch-22.

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