My Blue Peter Moment

As the end of the college year draws to an end, the IT Department are in the limbo of waiting for the students to finish before we can start playing with new kit. Jobs are at an all time low as no-one can really be bothered to report anything and hardly any of the equipment is being used.

This has lead to me getting a big fat pile of crappy jobs, including tidying the Help Desk, making lists of laptops that we will be FOGging (getting rid of) and such like.

However today, Andy (my boss) gave me a job that really does scrape the barrel. It’s been decided that the Help Sheets I have made clutter up the Help Desk a little bit and the tray used to store students’ work in on behalf of a member of staff are untidy. The decision has been made to get some ‘In’ Trays to store all of this work. The problem is, our Finance Department is now closed and we cannot make any orders until August. I’ve e-mailed around some of the offices to see if anyone has got any lying around but to no avail.

My task today, set by Andy, was to construct some ‘In’ Trays out of unused paper box lids (the boxes that hold 5 reams of A4). Now those who know me well will know that I am absolutely useless at anything craft-based but, I gave it a go anyway! I started them yesterday, constucting the first two sections and then added the third section today.

Below is a sample of my work, which demonstrates wonderfully, why I am an IT Technician and not an artist/builder/other such profession! I have to admit though,I did quite enjoy it!