One of our guests visiting the CAO reported to me that Internet Explorer on the dining room computer is displaying a menu with "strange symbols." Is that so?!
I phoned and emailed David. When he called back, I explained the problem. He said, "Yeah, I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was different." Or something to that effect. I explained the problem again, that the IE menu was showing different characters. He said, "Oh, in Chinese?" I said that I didn't know for certain, I was relaying the email sent to me. He said, "I think I know who the culprit is..." and laughed.
Damn it. This is not funny. We've got a computer in a public space that has been altered by the child of a member. They didn't know better perhaps. But they should have been told to not do this. The parents should have advised the child of how to behave using a shared computer.
Then David it seemed put the phone down and began a long discussion with the people near him. There was a lot of ambient noise. I could hear Jerry in the background saying something about having installed another version of IE. But the connection was poor. And the phone's microphone is crap. So I only got every other word. I hung up.
I was angry. I have a hard enough time keeping these computers running... Then these unsupervised kids muck them up. I should just lock everything down. See how that flies... Or just let them do what they want to do. And I'll stop fixing these damaged computers. Clean up your own mess.
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