Haters At Campus Job

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I got a job up at my Campus Computer lab.
It aint bad, just sit at PC and be available to help people, then change printer etcetera.
Occasionally, troubleshoot a broken pc. I’m on my game, and always help people when they need help, but here’s the messed up thing.

There’s a bunch of us who work in there, and all the other guys on shift surf facebook and play online games the whole time, while I build websites. Sometimes probono, sometimes for self, and sometimes for cash I was stupid to show the boss lady a website I had just built, and she said, “You can’t build sites while you’re working. You can browse or study, but no web site building.”

How, what, why? It defies logic that some guy can play an MMORPG all day, another one can chat online with his gf and look at music sites, and then me doing web development, is somehow against the rules.

Arrggg, anyways, the only way I can break it down is, people are haters. They don’t mind people being lazy, wasting their time, and entertaing themselves with equipment for hours.

However, when they find out someone uses their time effectively, to the point of creation of value and profit, they take offense. They hate that because they can’t/don’t/won’t step that level of mentality, so they try to block you.

It’s not such a big deal, I’ll just put my study time into my campus job, however, it is bothersome…it really is.

Screw all the haters.

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Request for a copy of the written policy of the department that restricts you from web development. Sometimes supervisors love making up the rules as they go, but when you ask for a written policy approved by their bosses, tends to change things.

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[quote]DJHT wrote:
Request for a copy of the written policy of the department that restricts you from web development. Sometimes supervisors love making up the rules as they go, but when you ask for a written policy approved by their bosses, tends to change things. [/quote]

I’ll just code the sites dirty and not have the apps open straight up, and if she comes by she won’t know it from Adam. I study Web Development too, so as long as I’m not going back in forth out of ftp to some website I just built for some restaurant or something, there shouldn’t be a problem.

I wouldn’t step on her toes like that man, people don’t like to have their egos busted on, smart ass or not I’m a small fish. I’ve learned the hard way that kindness and camaraderie is the best way to survive even if you have to put up with petty horse shit. If I challenge this lady, she’ll just shut me down. Who will they believe, little fish foriegner 3 weeks working there guy, or 11 years minority leader black lady tech lab baasss.

She’ll fuck me if I challenge her, and it’s not worth it, this job is right cushy. 8 bux an hour, when I say I want to work, 20 hours a week, get to study all day, never have to work weekends…good deal.

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They don’t want you working another job while at work. That is their problem most likely.

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Is she watching you? If not then act as if you stopped doing it but do it anyway. If she doesnt know who cares?
Me too I have a job where I can study and I love it. Being pay to study=WIN

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She works days, and I work nights I’m p* sure. If I’m lucky I’ll never see her anyway.
If so, I’ll probably just address the issue.
It’s pretty unreasonable to call it a work/study, if the student studies web development and can’t do it…

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Well as long as you feel as your helping people and doing your job then why not.

I told many people if I was a boss and had workers working under ,e I could give two shits what they did on shift AS LONG as they got their work done properly. Who wants to come work for me? lol

Mind you I work at a gym and I’m always on T-Nation either posting stupid shit or really trying to increase my knowledge about fitness. So really in your case I don’t see a problem. Your learning about your job which helps you help people that are having more difficult troubles.

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[quote]jasmincar wrote:
Is she watching you? If not then act as if you stopped doing it but do it anyway. If she doesnt know who cares?
Me too I have a job where I can study and I love it. Being pay to study=WIN[/quote]

Wow, that’s kinda how we have it in Denmark!

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hackorz r kool

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“code the sites dirty”

LOL

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If you’re running Windows you can always Remote Desktop into your home PC and do your work there. If you’re running Linux (or god forbid Mac) you can probably find an equivalent. While it wouldn’t keep anybody from seeing what you are doing, it would prevent you from having to keep your files on the schools computers.

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Yet again, everybody is marching out of step except for you, huh, spets?

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Well since you are allowed to play games while working…using time to do something worth while seems perfectly fine.

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Huh? Where did this come from?

Ya I don’t get it. It just comes down to hating.

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Could be a policy that you can’t use their assets to create your own.

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[quote]the_raw wrote:
Could be a policy that you can’t use their assets to create your own.[/quote]

Most likely. Schools can get in trouble for using academically licensed software for commercial purposes.

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start your own biz building websites…fixed

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[quote]frankjl wrote:
If you’re running Windows you can always Remote Desktop into your home PC and do your work there. If you’re running Linux (or god forbid Mac) you can probably find an equivalent. While it wouldn’t keep anybody from seeing what you are doing, it would prevent you from having to keep your files on the schools computers.

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this

try tight VNC or look around for other VNC clients to connect to a different machine. When I was in college, I had a very similar job. We had this wonderful app called deep freeze. When you restart the machine, poof all traces of previous activity are gone. But there are many ways, a bunch are free, to connect and control another computer. In fact, the PC I’m using to type out this post is connected to 3 term servers and I’m VNC’ed to my home network doing all kinds of fun stuff. But do get the usage policy and read it carefully. At my job, anything I do on the corporate networks is owned by the company so any side jobs I do on their network is owned by them, not me. If you work on websites to be published on the net, protect yourself by getting off their networks and onto another. VNC clients allow you to view and control other computers so you arent really working on the network you are using to connect to another network. If that makes any sense.

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[quote]DJHT wrote:
Request for a copy of the written policy of the department that restricts you from web development. Sometimes supervisors love making up the rules as they go, but when you ask for a written policy approved by their bosses, tends to change things. [/quote]

DON’T DO THIS.

I work as a manager in the IT dept of a college and have some students working for me. I personally wouldn’t have a problem with what you’re doing as long as you don’t neglect the students who need help or let the printers run out of paper; especially if you’re not a dickhead. But once you start challenging your boss, you are now the dickhead. Student workers are very replaceable and if he wants he’ll make ALL of you guys do work during your entire shift.

Your boss probably doesn’t want you getting paid by someone else while your working for the college. You shouldn’t have brought it up. But now that the cat’s out of the bag, just be discrete about it. RDP’ing to another machine is a great idea and so is “coding dirty”. Just don’t confront your boss and if you get caught NEVER admit you’re doing it for money.

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[quote]buffalokilla wrote:

[quote]the_raw wrote:
Could be a policy that you can’t use their assets to create your own.[/quote]

Most likely. Schools can get in trouble for using academically licensed software for commercial purposes.[/quote]

Bingo.

Technically you could be putting them at risk or worse yet a liability. If you screwed up someone’s website, while working for the school, they could potentially be held liable. Especially if they knew and condoned the behaviour.

As for someone mentioning asking for the policy manual, you were right not to. If you try to live by the rules, you’ll die by the rules.

I’d say go about it the way you said. Spend your time studying and doing some development that you can either easily hide or pass off as “studying”.

Honestly, your boss doesn’t sound like a hater at all.