So .. I guess I waited too
long to buy a ticket for the tournament – you know, the one I’m going to Sunday
but couldn’t buy a ticket to on Friday because apparently the idiots in charge
do not understand how the Internet can continue to work … right up until the
time the event is over.
I hope that I can purchase
a ticket at the gate (and park on site) because I have food for the event and I’m
there to take pictures. I’m not the
official photographer or anything like that, but I am the one who updates the
laxpower site’s photos for the team … except that laxpower’s Internet Gremlin
quit last season and took the secret info of how to post to the website with
him.
Really. What is wrong with people?
Which brings me to the good
news. We have, or had, a tech gremlin at
school.
This is the tech gremlin
who used to teach French in Chicago but got hired because one of our old lady
techs (who can’t fix anything except her bra straps, and even that is
questionable) met him at a conference and thought he was a cute little young
thing, so she brought him home to Massachusetts like a frigging stray red-headed
rat on vacation in quaint New England from the big city. This is the tech gremlin who treated us like
children, would clap at meetings to get our attention, and if we ignored him,
he’d yell, “Let’s try that again, everyone!”
(Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!)
This is the tech gremlin who invited us to “playdates” instead of “meetings.” This is the tech gremlin who didn’t know that
computers ran applications (“Aren’t those only on iPhones?”) but was hired to
run our entire district because he “likes iPads.” This is the tech gremlin who screamed at us, “I
got 1600 emails and then hit refresh and got 600 more!” (Um … not from the staff, you didn’t, you
lying sack of strawberry blond poop.)
Anyway … the good news is
.. the tech gremlin self-destructed. He
lied his way into the job and hit head-on a staff of extremely tech savvy
workers. Even I, the technologically
challenged dumb-nut of the group, managed to set up others’ computers,
printers, Smartboards, and video equipment.
I mean, if I can do it, any village idiot can do it.
Except our professional
tech gremlin. The guy we fired two
teachers for and reduced two other teacher’s hours for. Mr. Fucktard.
So even though I am
apparently not tech-savvy enough to purchase a ticket online to a lacrosse
tournament that is still, or was at the time, 48 hours away, I guess I still am
smarter than the average techie. I’ll
show up at the lacrosse field “old-school” – you know, cash in hand – and hope
that someone, anyone at all, still knows how to do business the old-fashioned
way: Face to face.
