I hate being the "Tech Guy"
14/12/07 09:11 Filed in: Personal
I apologize to anyone who does not want this little
insight to my personal life, but I just have to get
this out of my system, so be prepared when reading
this I am in full on rant mode at this point in time.
I HATE BEING THE TECH GUY!!! There, I said it, I hate
being the tech guy. Everyone wants you to do crap for
them and it just gets to be annoying as hell.
At my high school, the majority of the administration and even some of my teachers know that I am good with computers, and technology all around, therefore I'm always being asked to do crap for them. I was sucked into running MediaShout during chapel. And guess, what, I do run it and I really hate it for many reasons.
One reason I hate it is because I'm always being asked to do a three hour task in Photoshop about five minutes before chapel starts. I'd be fine with it if I could have know what they wanted done on Monday (chapel is on Wednesday), but when someone wants me to do something for them in Photoshop five minutes before the whole school piles into the gym it just pisses me off.
Another reason I hate being know as the tech guy at school is that the administration feels that it's just fine and dandy to pull me out of my study hall when i am happily reading comments on Slashdot to do a task that a trained frickin' monkey could do. For some reason there are only a select few that know how to pull a cart with a computer on it out of a closet, roll it to the other side of the gym, turn on a projector, press a button to put the screen down and plug the computer into the wall, and run a 100 foot VGA cable 3 feet. I guess I'm the tech guy and they feel that I should do this stuff, either that or the administration is just too darn lazy to learn how to do that.
A third reason I hate being the tech guy at school is that for some odd reason the administration (once again) feels it is just fine and dandy to ask me to attend an event so I can run the computer. I guess it's just soo hard to press the arrow key to advance a PowerPoint presentation or hit the space bar to go to the next cue in MediaShout that they have to have me do it.
Things may be a little different if my parents weren't paying through the nose for me to go to a private Christian high school. And things would definitely be different if I were being paid for doing what I do. Hell, even a simple "Thank you for all you've done Justin" would be nice to hear every now and then.
When I'm doing tech at church (usually running the sound board and getting the band all wired) it is just totally different. It feels that people have more respect for what I do there, and they know that if they didn't have me they couldn't get anything done.
I am sorry for anyone that read that and didn't need to know about my personal life, but I just had to get that rant out of my system.
At my high school, the majority of the administration and even some of my teachers know that I am good with computers, and technology all around, therefore I'm always being asked to do crap for them. I was sucked into running MediaShout during chapel. And guess, what, I do run it and I really hate it for many reasons.
One reason I hate it is because I'm always being asked to do a three hour task in Photoshop about five minutes before chapel starts. I'd be fine with it if I could have know what they wanted done on Monday (chapel is on Wednesday), but when someone wants me to do something for them in Photoshop five minutes before the whole school piles into the gym it just pisses me off.
Another reason I hate being know as the tech guy at school is that the administration feels that it's just fine and dandy to pull me out of my study hall when i am happily reading comments on Slashdot to do a task that a trained frickin' monkey could do. For some reason there are only a select few that know how to pull a cart with a computer on it out of a closet, roll it to the other side of the gym, turn on a projector, press a button to put the screen down and plug the computer into the wall, and run a 100 foot VGA cable 3 feet. I guess I'm the tech guy and they feel that I should do this stuff, either that or the administration is just too darn lazy to learn how to do that.
A third reason I hate being the tech guy at school is that for some odd reason the administration (once again) feels it is just fine and dandy to ask me to attend an event so I can run the computer. I guess it's just soo hard to press the arrow key to advance a PowerPoint presentation or hit the space bar to go to the next cue in MediaShout that they have to have me do it.
Things may be a little different if my parents weren't paying through the nose for me to go to a private Christian high school. And things would definitely be different if I were being paid for doing what I do. Hell, even a simple "Thank you for all you've done Justin" would be nice to hear every now and then.
When I'm doing tech at church (usually running the sound board and getting the band all wired) it is just totally different. It feels that people have more respect for what I do there, and they know that if they didn't have me they couldn't get anything done.
I am sorry for anyone that read that and didn't need to know about my personal life, but I just had to get that rant out of my system.