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Stupid Things Your School/Workplace Has Done

16_BIT_MARIO116_BIT_MARIO1
edited December 2008 in General Chat
I have a prime example of stupidity right here: The school internet network blocks sights for stupid reasons such as 'music appreciation'. Yet they didn't bother to block pages such as the Wikipedia page on rape. Oh, and you can't go to any page that has the word 'game' in the address. Discuss other stupidities that you know of!

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  • WarpSpeedWarpSpeed
    edited December 2008
    Simply change the Wikipedia page on rape so that it actually discusses music appreciation. Problem solved!
  • 16_BIT_MARIO116_BIT_MARIO1
    edited December 2008
    WarpSpeed wrote: »
    Simply change the Wikipedia page on rape so that it actually discusses music appreciation. Problem solved!
    Or I could just spam it and have the entire school system banned from editing it. That actually happened a few years ago.
  • zimmi88zimmi88
    edited December 2008
    My school makes Windows users install this stupid program called Cisco Clean Access Agent. It basically sits on your computer, hogs system resources, and acts as a babysitter, making sure your anti-virus and security and everything else is in order.

    This probably wouldn't be so bad if:
    1. The darn program didn't drop you from the internet sporadically.
    2. It didn't bring your whole computer (and startup processes) down.
    3. The authentication server wasn't rubbish.
    4. It actually did a good job of recognizing anti-virus programs.

    Case in point... when everyone returned from Thanksgiving break, the entire network was down because the authentication server had crashed over the holiday.

    And, of course, only Windows users have to install the program... if you have a Mac or Linux computer, you can connect directly to the network, no problem.

    ...Sorry... I'm done ranting now.
  • natlinxznatlinxz
    edited December 2008
    This is a little off topic, but whatever
    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NvbEjzAg1vU
  • deadlinejondeadlinejon
    edited December 2008
    my dads old workplace has done a lot of stupid things. one time a guy tried to strip a live wire.
  • metalkombatmetalkombat
    edited December 2008
    My school board made a horrible mistake the first time we were supposed to have a snow day. The storm was scheduled to start at around 3 in the morning and go all day, with about a foot of snow scheduled to fall. At 4 (or whenever the board does this sort of thing), they looked out their windows, saw barely any snow, and decided we would have school that day. On the way to school, 9 different cars going to school landed in the ditch. Throughout the day, the conditions got worse and worse, and when school let out, there were a total of 16 accidents in the parking lot alone.

    Idiotic, indeed.
  • antirikuroxantirikurox
    edited December 2008
    my school blocks blogs... and forums...
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited December 2008
    My old elementry school temporaily banned kids from recess for not playing an OPTINAL game of baseball. We had like 12 kids get banned from recess for it.
    My sister's highscool blocked their own school website.:confused: What idiot blocks their own school website.
  • antirikuroxantirikurox
    edited December 2008
    what idiots block blogs... and forums...
  • antirikuroxantirikurox
    edited December 2008
    we feel each other's pain! add me dude!
  • patterspatters
    edited December 2008
    my sixth form did many stupid things. sixth form is the equivalent to a college twinned with a high school to you yanks

    one was when someone fly posted posters for an imaginary band me and a friend were in (we had nothing to do with it at all including the band) saying we were performing a gig at the school, i got called up by the site manager thinking it was real, when it was clearly a fake, you could tell this by a quote from the flyer "Wembley arena sold out" for an unheard of band that would be an amazing feat.

    and i got the blame, oh yes.
  • DarkStar RunnerDarkStar Runner
    edited December 2008
    There was this one time...last year, actually, the whole year... that the whole Homestar Runner site was blocked... Me and my friend were devastated, cause I couldn't show my new friend, who was only there for one year, the joys of Teen girl squad. I mena, my group of friends were each one. I was So and So. All of us wanted to be What's Her Face.
  • antirikuroxantirikurox
    edited December 2008
    you are a girl...?! lol!

    my school blogs the hrwiki for forums, my website for blogs, telltale for forums, games, and blogs, and the hr site for games!
  • AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
    edited December 2008
    What's so funny about her being a girl?

    Anyway, there was this time when lots of people on Facebook were creating hate groups, like "I hate So and So" or "What's his face has a monobrow" (Coincidentally, the person in question actually joined that group). Someone told the teachers, and bam, entire year gets a huge lecture. Everyone involved (about half the year) got an extra two hours. People who went on facebook in class was banned from using computers at school for the rest of the year. (Luckily, there was only two weeks left, but still!) Do you think that's overeacting?
  • antirikuroxantirikurox
    edited December 2008
    just go to myspace! it is better!
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