IT people, lend me your erm, eyes I guess.

How difficult would you say this job would be? There have been no applicants, so it's now been reposted  slightly differently here. Wondering if I can wing it.

it covers a fair old bit - there's no sense of how many servers are to be managed. You also seem to be on your own too. 1000 users ? On your own? I can why they didn't get a bite.

It sounds like  general dogsbody job - and you would be run ragged.

There's a perception that working in a vocational environment such as a charity would drive an IT person mad as well.

They're looking for someone who can design, implement and support an entire IT estate including desktop/server/routing/switching/firewall/circuits etc. for fuck all money.  That's nonsense.

Aye. That’s similar to our industry where a young graphic designer is now expected to be a designer, art worker, illustrator, photographer, project manager, animator, video editor, website developer, UX designer, client contact, account manager, and probably more besides. I am eternally grateful for being old enough to pitch myself as creative director and just tell these multitaskers what to do.

OK, job I can definitely do has come up at work.

Annoyingly my manager isn't in today for me to get some advice from.

Got my finger's crossed I hear back from one of these jobs this week or next... it's been a month!

Our most problematic depts tend to be the more idealistic ones.

We have had people buy information kiosks for example (I know - old example) and when we asked about what the content was going to be and - you know- connectivity - they stared at us blankly.

Had a great professional disagreement with my boss today. He wanted to know why I hadn't updated my English subject leader log all year. I told him it was because I had decided it was a waste of time and I should use my time to directly impact on learning rather than just writing it down to prove I was doing it, when the evidence of what I was doing readily apparent around the school to be referred to both on display and in books. He then proceeded to question why I hadn't included certain sets of data in the file (I showed him where I had it all saved on our shared drive for easy access) and why certain data wasn't there (it was and he didn't understand that 16-17 was last academic year).

His main complaint was that it wasn't organised in a way that he could easily find what he wanted. I queried why this mattered given that if we were inspected and OFSTED wanted to pick apart what we were doing in English - which they certainly would - that they wouldn't want to take a paper file away in isolation, or even read through it with him, but they would speak to me and I knew where everything was (the only things not in there were 5 button clicks away on my laptop) and to fill it up with medium term planning from across the school was a box ticking waste of time. 

I was going to be applying for a promotion at the school shortly but the man is a full on fucking idiot who is encouraging the absolute shit that is driving people out of the profession.

Hate stuff like that. Luckily I’ve always got away with just not bothering doing it properly. The new management seem a bit more keen on that sort of bollocks though so we’ll see what happens. Are good English teachers as scarce as good maths ones? If so then just ignore it, or do the minimum box-ticking to keep it out of the picture so you can get on with your actual job in peace. It’s no wonder people are leaving the profession in droves.

Is anyone available to look at my CV, sort of nowish?

Enjoy your night dude.

Nice one!

Bit pissed now. Not sure how tonight is gonna my. DON’T CARE GETTING FUCKED UP

get lit yo

Leaving work tattoo?